Click here to connect to eBooks at EBSCO.

These books were previously available through NetLibrary. EBSCO purchased NetLibrary, and, as of July 2011, NetLibrary books are available only through EBSCO.

We subscribe to over 7,000 e-book titles through EBSCO eBooks, in conjuction with COOL (Consortium of Ontario Libraries). Because the COOL group includes University, College, School, and Public libraries, the books included in the collection cover a broad range of subjects and reading levels, and include titles that would not normally be found in a University Library (eg. children's books). Select research materials accordingly.

All titles from EBSCO eBooks have been added to TOPCAT, so that you can find them with any general search of our library catalogue. In "Power Search" you can limit your results to ebooks by restricting a search to those with a location of "E-Book".

You can also connect to EBSCO eBooks directly to:

• search for books using the search engine, or
• browse through the list of titles by clicking "eBooks" from the blue banner at the top of the page.

Find a link to EBSCO eBooks on our E-Resouces page, in our Directory of Online Databases, and in TOPCAT.

Access Limitations

Most EBSCO eBooks are restricted to one user at a time. There is an automatic inactivity timeout, so that books not being used are released back to the system.

• When you access the full text of a book on your computer you must keep it active; otherwise it will be returned to the system after 30 minutes of inactivity .
• Titles that are unavailable because they're in use by someone become available again after 30 inactive minutes. There is no option for forcing books to be returned - they need to time out.

Tools

Click "eBook Full Text" to open and view the book.

When you have a book open, a toolbar offers tools to:

• search within the book,
• make notes (you need to create an account to save these notes),
• look up a word in a dictionary,
• print or email up to 60 pages per book, and
• place the book citation (and link to it) in a folder for later reference.

Click here to see a Flash video on how to use eBooks on EBSCO.

Select the citations you wish to download to RefWorks:

• Choose several from your results list by clicking "Add to Folder", then select "Folder View".
• OR, select only one citation by going to the complete record (click on the title).

Choose "Export" from the options on the right-hand side of the screen.
Select "Direct Export to RefWorks" from the next screen. RefWorks will open; once you have logged into your account the items will be downloaded.

Adobe Acrobat is needed to read files. If books open a page at a time in Adobe Acrobat, you'll need to adjust the settings in your browser or in Adobe software, to make files open in the browser window.

• If you're using the default setting in Firefox, change it to open .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) files within the browser: select "Tools", "Options", "Applications", "Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)". See our help page.
• To change the settings in the Adobe software, see the EBSCO help page.

The Trent Library does NOT offer the "Download/Checkout" or "Hold" features.

A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web.

To find a link back to a particular citation, click on "Permalink" on the right-hand side of the screen and copy the link provided. It looks like this:

Example: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=137815&site=ehost-live

To ensure off-campus access, include the proxy prefix: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=

Final: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=
true&db=nlebk&AN=137815&site=ehost-live