Digital Readi
ng
How to use E-book
resources in NCCU library
Training grant offered by Taiwan Academic E-book and Database
Consortium(TAEBC)
NCCU Library, Reference Services Section 2012/10/25 14:00-16:00
Outline
• About E-books
• Advantages
• Common E-book readers
• Types of E-book formats
• E-books in NCCU library
• How many E-books are available in NCCU library?
• E-book platforms by subjects
• E-book searching in NCCU library website
• Ways for E-book searching
• Introduction to E-book platforms
• Let’s try! E-book searching contest
Topic 1
Introduction to E-books
Advantages of E-books
• A lot of e-books can be carried at one time.
• Personalized your setting by using functions such as Bookmark and Note.
You can also change the layout, showing summary and abstract according
to personal reading habits.
• Multimedia ： Digital content in e-books can be connected to multimedia.
• Hyperlink ： Hyperlink function enables readers to link the content to we
b resources for further information search such as dictionaries, encyclo
pedias or journal articles.
• Easy access through the Internet without going to the library in person.
Ex. Limitation on reference books
• You can search for the whole book or certain sections for specific infor
mation.
• No more worries about due date or damage payment anymore.
• …
Common E-book readers
• Besides computers, more and more electronic devices
can be used as readers for e-books.
1. Notebooks ： Including mini notebooks and tablet computers
, whose sizes are smaller than regular notebooks and eas
y to carry.
2. PDAs ： Light and small, easy to carry. With Wi-Fi functio
n included, you can download e-books with ease. However,
its screen may be too small for many people, and battery
capacity is also limited.
3. Smart phones: E-books can be downloaded to your smart ph
ones through Internet connection.
4. Readers especially for E-books ： The electronic devices
made especially for E-books. Advantages including big sc
reens, resolution similar to the effect of paper-printed
books, which can effectively reduce reading fatigue.
Common commercial E-book reader
s
Readers especially made for E-books Tablet computers Smart phones
Amazon Kindle (The most common E- book reader in the US)
$69
Sony Reader(Android 2.2)$149
iPad/iPad 2 Built-in explorer. Downloading e-readers from App Store or Android
Market
Types of E-book formats
H T M L
• ABC-CLIO/ Greenwood• Gale Virtual
Reference Library
• MyiLibrary
• Emerald eBook
• Gale Virtual
Reference Library
• Oxford Scholarship Online
P D F
• Cambridge Book Online• Columbia
University Press
• CRCnetBASE
• eBrary
• Emerald eBook
• Gale Virtual
Reference Library
• MyiLibrary
• EBSCO eBook Collection
• Oxford Scholarship Online
• Palgrave connect eBooks
O th e rs
• China Digital Library (Apabi reader)• AiritiBooks E-
books/ePub (Adobe Flash Player)
• 中國基本古籍庫 (ClientSetup.exe)
• McGraw-Hill E- book Collection (Smart Reader)
• L&B Digital Library(Smart Reader)
Topic 2
E-books in NCCU Library
How many books are available in N
CCU library?
• Currently available (Until 2012.09)
• Amount of E-books: 617,573
• 65 kinds of databases and platforms for E-books
E-book platforms by subjects-1
General (Humanity and social
science) Chinese/English history and art
1. airitiBooks E-books (Chinese E-
books)
2. HyRead E-books
3. L&B Digital Library
4. McGraw-Hill Education (Chinese E-
books)
5. China Digital Library( 北大方正電子
書 )
6. ABC-CLIO & Greenwood ebooks
collection
7. Cambridge Books online
8. Columbia University Press eBooks
9. ebrary
10.McGraw-Hill E-Book Collection (L&B)
11.MyiLibrary
12.NetLibrary
13.Oxford Scholarship Online
14.Palgrave connect eBooks
15.ScienceDirect eBook
16.SpringerLink eBook Collection
17.Taylor & Francis
1. 中國基本古籍庫 ： More than ten
thousand anthologies ranging from
Chin Dynasty to date.
2. 古今圖書集成： The complete classics
collection of ancient China with
punctuation
3. 台灣文獻叢刊續編：
4. 四部叢刊電子版
5. 文淵閣四庫全書電子版
6. Full-text image system for Books of
Japanese Ruled Period
7. Dream of the Red Chamber
Database
8. 漢籍電子文獻：二十五史、十三經、小說
戲曲、大藏經、臺灣文獻叢刊、文心雕龍
等中文古籍
9. 雕龍漢籍電子圖書館：《歷代會要》、
《歷代詩話》、《歷代賦彙》三套漢學古
籍。
10.Early American Imprint
11.Eighteenth Century Collection
Online (Gale)
12.Literature Collections (Chadwyck-
Healey)
E-book platforms by subjects-2
Others
1. CRCnetBase(medical science/neuroscience)
2. Informa Healthcare E-books(medical science/neurology)
3. Emerald eBook Series(business management, social science)
4. Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale Encyclopedia, manuals)
5. SAGE eReference (Engyclopedia)
6. InfoSci E-books (Information Technology /Social Technologies)
7. IOS Press Books Online(E-books published by IOS Press, covering
Assistive Technology Research, Concurrent Systems Engineering,
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Global E-
Governance Series, Housing and Urban Policy Studies, Innovation
and the Public Sector, NATO series)
8. Karger (Biomedicine)
9. Ovid Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Medical Collection (Medicine and
nursing)
10.SIAM Reference Collection (Mathematics 、 Statistics)
11.Social Theory
12.WestLaw Japan ： Includes laws and regulations, cases, legal
commentaries, and articles.
13.Eighteenth Century Collection Online (Gale)
Topic 3
E-book searching in NCCU library website
Ways for E-book searching
• Library Catalog
• Searching for all types of data in NCCU library, including paper-printe
d books and E-books.
• Searching interface is more familiar to readers.
• All the purchased E-books of NCCU library can be found in this library
catalog.
• E-book Databases
• There are 65 kinds of E-book databases in NCCU library.
Access the databases by clicking “Databases” on library frontpage. Th
en you can click on “E-books” to view all E-book related databases.
• Click “Details” to see database details about users manuals, book col
lections and restrictions.
• Link to E-book platforms to view all the E-book collection, but you can
only access full texts purchased by NCCU library.
• Other ways to look for E-books
Link to official website of the
database
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1- 4614-0718-8)Off-campus link--
(http://0-www.springerlink.com.jenda.lib.nccu.edu.tw/openurl.asp? genre=book&isbn=978-1-4614-0717-1)
Name of this E-book platform
What are the advantages of se
arching by library catalog?
• With certain subject in mind→
Choose [Title Keywords]+Types of materials [E-book
s]
• With or without a certain subject in mind→
Choose [Keywords]+Types of materials [E-books]
You can search the e-book in our library from the E-
books Gateway.
Notice: you can click on “Info” to
see the more information about the
database, like user guides or other
conditions.
(2) You can search the e-book
database or vendor from the
Database Gateway.
Other ways to look for E-books
• Taiwan Academic E-Books Consortium(TAEBC)
• Metasearch of more than 10 e-books databases purchased by
TAEBC. Time saving and effective.
• Searching results will be directly linked to each E-book s
ystem. To read full texts of the E-books, campus IP is req
uired.
• Steps: NCCU library website→Databases→Type “TAEBC” int
o search column.
Introduction to E-book platforms
_Users’ manuals
• Chinese E-books
• airitiBooks
• L&B Digital Library
• English E-books
• Ebrary
• MyiLibrary
• SpringerLink ebook
airitiBooks
Points Database description
Language Chinese(Traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese)
Publisher 時報、聯經、華泰、書林、前程、千華、桂冠等近 600 家出版品近 60,000 冊
Topics Literature, languages, medicine, business, education, business, psychology and science
Amount 254 books purchased in 2011
Format ePUB
How to read 1. Read online： Open directly with browsers.
2. Read off-line： Apply a personal account with NCCU IPDownload “iRead eBook” softwareOpen E-book webpage and click “read off-line” Open
“iRead eBook” and click “Download”
Print Print function varies according to the business agreement that airitiBooks made with each publisher.
Others 1. For trial E-books, you can read 10% of trial books. For online reading and trial reading, full-text is available.
2. You can borrow a maximum of ten books for five days. The books will be automatically cleared after due date.
3. Click “Full-text” but doesn’t work: Try shutting down “Block pop-up screen” function.
First, apply a personal account within NCCU IP.
First, apply a personal account within NCCU IP.
Within 254 books purchased by our league,
only 20 books can be read offline.
Within 254 books purchased by our league,
only 20 books can be read offline.
To read off-line,
download reading
software first
To read off-line,
download reading
software first
1. Open “Market” in Android
2. Search for “iRead eBook”
3. Download iRead eBook
1. Open “Market” in Android
2. Search for “iRead eBook”
3. Download iRead eBook
•Full-text ： Suitable for PCs (Adobe flash
Player required)
•Full-text ： Suitable for PCs (Adobe flash
Player required)
•Full-text ： Suitable for PCs and all kinds
of readers
•Full-text ： Suitable for PCs and all kinds
of readers
L&B Digital Library
Points Database description
Language
Chinese(Traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese), other languagesPublishers
1. Chinese： Including over 200 publishers over the world such as McGraw-Hill, LexisNexis and other publishers in Taiwan and Mainland China.2. Other languages ： E-books published by
McGraw-Hill including
architecture, electrical engineering, business administration,
financial investment, medical science, social & natural
science.
Amount
128 books in Chinese, 861 books in other languagesFormat
Plane textReader
1. Read online： Open with flash (Ios system doesn’t support flash).2. Read off-line by using Smart Reader , a reading instrument created by L&B. 可
Others
1. “My library” personal bookshelf: A personal library service which fulfills individual reading needs such as categorization and offline reading.2. After downloading, you can read the E-books offline by double-clicking them. Each book has a 30-day loan period. After the due date, readers need to download the E-books again.
By clicking “Download”, a reader
and a personal bookshelf (My
library) will be installed to user’s
computer.
By clicking “Download”, a reader
and a personal bookshelf (My
library) will be installed to user’s
computer.
ebrary
Points Database description
Language English
Publisher More than 175 world renown publishers Topics All subject domains included
Amount 2185 books purchased by the league聯盟採購可用 2,185 冊
Format PDF format
How to read 1. Read online： Either by browser Quick view or by ebrary reader 2. Read offline by downloading ADE or PDF format.
Print A maximum of 40 pages at a time.
Feature Info Tool: Speech function, link to multimedia and reference tools Read offline by
applying a personal account. Authorization regulations may varies from books to books.
1. Entire document： Download free Adobe Digital Editions software to read Adobe Digital Editions files. For each account, ten books can be
downloaded for a loan period of 14 days. However, this software doesn’t support Linux and Kindle system.
2. 40-page PDF files： A maximum of 40pages can be downloaded at a time, and the downloaded file can be used permanently. These image-PDF files can be opened with PDF readers. Suitable for kindle system.
Click on the book to read
online.
Click on the book to read
online.
Define: Mark the target words or phrases and link to Merriam-Webster Dictionary for definitions.Explain： Mark the target words or phrases and link to
Britannica Encyclopedia
Locate： Mark the target words or phrases and link to MapQuest- US Cities, National Geographic, and Yahoo US Cities
Enter InfoTools for advanced personalized
functions.
Click “Download” to read
offline
Click “Download” to read
offline
1. This PDF file can be used permanently. 2. Suitable for Amazon Kindle
3. Functions such as “search”, “select texts”,
“underline”, “note” are not available. 1. This PDF file can be used permanently. 2. Suitable for Amazon Kindle
3. Functions such as “search”, “select texts”,
“underline”, “note” are not available.
1. A loan period for 14 days.
2. Files can be exported to other devices such as computers, iPnone and iPad.
3. You can search for the text, bookmark items and insert note with this format.
1. A loan period for 14 days.
2. Files can be exported to other devices such as computers, iPnone and iPad.
3. You can search for the text, bookmark items and insert note with this format.
MyiLibrary
Points Database description
Language English
Publisher E-books published by several renowned publishers.
Topics Subjects include chemistry, industry, agriculture, medicine, literature, history and philosophy.
Amount 7,067 books
Format PDF
Reader Adobe
Download/Print You can download or print 10 pages for two or three copies at a time. Wait for at least one minute when you want to print more than one copy. However, according to authorization policy, you can only download or print 80 pages at most at a time. Books will be locked on violation of this policy.
Others The E-books purchased by TAEBC an be used permanently.
SpringerLink eBook Collectio
n
Points Database description
Language English
Publisher Springer Press
Subjects Computer science, biomedical sciences,
mathematics and statistics(journals, books, series,
protocols and reference works)
Amount Permanent access to books published in1997-2005
and 2008-2010
Format PDF
Reader Adobe Reader
Download/Print Read offline by downloading PDF files one chapter
at a time.
Others No limitation on number of users.
Save the record to personal account. Save the record to personal account.
Download the chapter file to your own reader.
Download the chapter file to your own reader.
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