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VIDEO TUTORIAL:
WHAT IT IS:
eBooks on EBSCOhost is the library’s collection of over 40,000 electronic books, permanently-owned by the library, providing detailed information on a number of different topics. eBooks on EBSCOhost is an older collection of books – mostly from before 2012.
WHAT IT DOES:
eBooks on EBSCOhost is a collection of electronic books. Use it to find:
-Books
HOW TO SEARCH:
Use the search box to conduct a basic search. You can also filter for Full Text results and Date of publication
Tips: Use “Or,” “And,” and “Not” to get different results.
School OR violence will get you all results containing “school” or “violence.” More results.
School AND violence will get you all results containing “school” and “violence.” Fewer results.
School NOT violence will get you all results containing “school” WITHOUT “violence.” Even fewer results.
“School violence” in quotation marks will treat your search as a phrase – both words together.
SEARCH RESULTS:
Search results are sorted by relevance. Unless you specify otherwise, the database will try and find results that contain your search terms in the titles. You can further limit your search results by selecting "All Filters" and utilizing the search refinement options to the right:
Subjects:
Each book in the database has been “tagged” with different subject headings. For example, a book about school shootings might be tagged with “school violence,” “school shooting,” “school bullying,” etc. You can click relevant subjects and that will pull out all the books from your search results that are tagged with that specific subject heading.
READING A BOOK
Clicking on a title will open its record. You will need to click where it says “PDF Full text” to open the book on your screen.
Once the book loads on your screen, you will notice a menu at the top right. You can view an expandable table of contents on the left, or you can search within the entire text of the book by clicking “Search within.”
At the top, above the table of content, you can choose to save certain pages, send sections of the book through email (up to 10% of the book), print, or click the quotation mark with the tooltip "Cite" to access your bibliographic citation for the book. You would cite the article using MLA if it is for English 101 or English 102, and you would cite the article using APA for other classes.
Click here for additional product support:
https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/New-EBSCOhost-Quick-Start-Guide
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