Easy to use E-Books!

 Easy to use E-Books!

     The Los Rios Libraries provide you with access to thousands of E-Books . These E-Books are easy to use through the Library Catalog or Online Research Databases.  You have convenient access to the library’s collection of electronic books 24 hours seven days a week.  You can read an E-Book with Internet access at the library or from home with your student identification number and password.   Click HERE to see a video on using E-Books!

What is an E-Book 

     An E-Book is an electronic book just like a “regular” book with chapters and a table of contents, but you can read it online! 

How to Find E-Books 

     Finding E-Books in the Los Rios Library Catalog is easy.  Find an E-Book title by searching the  Library Catalog .   Each E-Book is clearly marked by the location (Online E-Book), and the icon (Just look for the book, with a green computer screen and the word E-Book).         

You can also find E-Books the library’s Research Databases with NetLibrary and the ACLS Humanities E-Book Project!  

Reading E-Books Online at home 

     Reading E-Books on your home computer is easy to do.  Once you find an E-Book in the Library Catalog, select the “View E-Book” link, and you will be prompted to enter your student identification number and password in the Research Databases: Login for Off-Campus Access screen.   Select the E-Book you want to read and you can instantly read the book online!  

Note: If you try to access an E-Book and it isn’t available, check back later. Only one person can view the E-Book at a time. 

It is as easy as that!  If you need additional help using E-Books, please ask your librarian!

-Posted by Caroline Harker

Learn How To Research!

Do you want to learn how to use the CRC Library for your research? Are you unsure how to find books in the library? Do you want to know what a research database is? The CRC Library has some great new tools to teach you how to become an expert searcher!.

The library is introducing a new set of video tutorials to teach you how to find books, find articles, and navigate the library. These video tutorials are available from the CRC Library website under the Tutorials tab. Click HERE to view them.

Currently, we have tutorials which cover the following topics:

• A Tour of the CRC Library
• Finding Books: An Overview of the Library Catalog (LOIS)
• Finding Books: An Introduction to Searching in the Library Catalog (LOIS)
• Finding Articles: An Overview of the Research Databases
• Finding Articles: An Introduction to Searching in the Research Databases.

We are continuing to develop new tutorials so check back for videos on new topics! We hope that you find these interesting and useful as you do your research.

Feel free to post any questions here or Email a Librarian with your questions.

Posted by Emily Bond

New EBSCO Mobile Access!

CRC students, faculty, and staff can now access great research resources on-the-go through their iPhones, Blackberries, and other mobile devices. EBSCOhost, our primary research database provider, has rolled out a new interface that is “tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand!” 

Click on the following link to access the mobile EBSCOhost applications for CRC:   http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lasiii.losrios.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=crcmobile

Please note that off-campus users and people accessing the Internet through their cell phone provider will be prompted to login with their Los Rios login (W+ Student ID number and eServices password) the same way you do for off-campus access to our research databases. 

     Important Note!     

• EBSCO Mobile works best on newer mobile devices that utilize a graphic web browser.
• Due to the wide variety of mobile device operating systems and browsers, the CRC Library will not troubleshoot individual problems encountered logging in and accessing EBSCO Mobile. Please refer to your mobile service provider for troubleshooting problems with your mobile device.
• If you don’t know your Los Rios login (W+Student ID  number and eServices password), visit the eServices web page.

Enjoy your research on-the-go through EBSCO Mobile!

Posted by Emily Bond

San Francisco Public Library

Did you know?  The San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) offers a humongous collection of online research databases that are available to you, with a SFPL library card!  If you live anywhere in California, you can get a free SFPL library card (it is not restricted to residents of San Francisco!).  Just bring proof of residence in California when you visit any SFPL location.

What online research databases does SFPL have that augments what CRC Library offers?  Here are a few research databases that might pique your interest:

New York Times Historical (1851 – 3 years ago) – Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Ethnic Newswatch – Full text articles in both English and Spanish of more than 250 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

Morningstar Investment Research Center – Access Morningstar financial data on stocks, funds and industries. You will also find analyst reports, portfolio screenings and other tools for making investment decisions.

Mergent Online – U.S. and international company financials, ratios, news, and annual reports.

Oxford Music Online – Includes The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Grove Dictionary of Opera online.

Learning Express Library – Online practice tests, based on the official exams for SAT, GED, GRE, GMAT, Civil Service jobs, ASVAB and many more.

Chinese Magazines (Qikan) – 200 current, popular Chinese language magazines published in China. Available in either traditional or simplified characters.

Informe! – Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completes. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Full text of popular Hispanic magazines.

Russian Newspapers (East View) – Newspapers in Russian from official sources, independent media and partisan publications. Includes several English-language newspapers.

Rosetta Stone Online Language Learning – Interactive, online language exercises for beginning to intermediate learners. Languages include Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Russian, Greek and English.

Ancestry Library Edition – Resources for genealogical and historical research. Includes census, military, court, land, probate, vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, and more.

And many, many, many more!  Check out their full list on SFPL’s Articles and Database webpage.

 

Posted by Lily Kun

Pandemic H1N1 Flu (aka Swine Flu) Information

As public concern about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season continues to grow, the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) respond by offering the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free.

This free flu information resource is located at http://www.ebscohost.com/flu/ and will provide continually updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed™ and Nursing Reference Center™, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center™.

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

 

Posted by Lily Kun