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Enter your terms
separated by "and" to locate Electronic Books
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Ebook Search
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The Library now offers access to a number of Electronic Book titles.
These are available from six main electronic book suppliers:
For further information on access to these titles (including printing
and saving limitations, click on the corresponding link above).
Other Electronic Book Collections available via the Web include:
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- Electronic book titles are included in
the catalogue like any other book - instead of a call number they
usually have a hyperlink, enabling you to connect to them. You can
search by keyword, author or title like a print book.
- The different suppliers have slightly
different ways of helping you navigate through your selected title.
When you do a catalogue search, it can be useful to tell which
supplier the title comes from and follow the instructions for how it
works.
- The catalogue record tells you where
the ebook you select is from
e.g. As in the example - the catalogue record shows the record to be
an EBL (Ebook Library) title.
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James Bennett E-Titles will mention: James Bennett
Etitle: as the URL link or as "Alt Title" at the bottom of
the record. (see below)
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EBook
Access for Visually Impaired Staff & Students |
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Information below relates to specifically to EBL Titles - for
assistance with other EBook platforms and publishers please contact the
your local Library
disability officer Text enlargement
- The students are able enlarge the text/page in the EBL online
reader by:
- Switching the reader to PDF Mode in the tool bar at the top,
then click the "Hide Sidebar" tab
- Use the Zoom dropdown menu in the top left to fit page to
screen size and maximize reading space
Download
- The Download option is now switched on for EBL books that VU
owns.
- If an EBL book is required and the Library does not own it, it
will be purchased.
- The request to purchase should come through the
Library disability officer at the campus.
- The books can be downloaded and used on a local pc for 2 days,
enabling the student to run it through their own software that can
read aloud, or enlarge the script.
- Before a book is downloaded for the first time, the client needs
to install Adobe Digital Editions:
http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/#download
Extended availability
- While we are unable to adjust the download period for an
individual patron, if the 2 day download option is insufficient, we
can ask EBL to ask the publisher for unencrypted ebook files for
disabled patrons. This has to be done on a title by title basis, but
is a means of getting the books for the students for a longer
period.
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