eBook search tips
Information about eBook packages that allow you to do full-text searching and in most cases view the full-text too:
Search Tips and Caveats:
- Search Tips:
- Remember to use wild card characters at end of search terms to find items that use singular and plural forms of a term. This is the easiest way to miss items of interest.
- Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) used between search terms may need to be typed in capital letters.
- Many sites use double-quotation marks around terms to search them as a phrase.
- Google Books isn’t able to display the full-text for some titles due to copyright restrictions. Many full-text titles that we’ve licensed are not in Google Books.
- Some sites such as MyiLibrary only allow users to display one page at a time (no downloading of entire chapter). Other sites will allow full chapters to be downloaded at a time.
- Most license agreement prohibit downloading of entire books. All books published before 1923 are in the Public Domain or freely accessible.
- Some titles are available from two sources — Elsevier and Springer titles are both in MyiLibrary and in publishers sites.
- Wiley titles licensed are impossible to identify on the publisher’s site. This problem won’t be fixed until 2009. A list of available titles is being compiled and will be distributed to you when it’s completed.
- Socrates contains links for some eBooks. Efforts are underway to get catalog records and links added to Socrates for all eBooks purchased by the Stanford Univ. Libs. Links will also be added to Socrates records for Stanford books that were scanned by Google too.
- WorldCat, which has catalog records from thousands of libraries, does include links to eBooks. We may have access to some of these ebooks (but none from NetLibrary because their access conditions are unacceptable).
- One option under consideration is a search engine that would let you search multiple eBook sites simultaneously.
For now, I recommend trying out various eBook sites to see which ones contain content you need. Please contact me if you have any questions or need any help.
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