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The Scholars Portal ebook platform is designed to provide a single interface for accessing digital texts from the world's most important scholarly publishers and public domain books that have been scanned and digitized for online reading and downloading. (from the website)

Just as Scholars Portal Search provides one place to search a wide variety of e-journals and online indexes, the Books platform provides a search engine and source for accessing online books. These books include those available for free and those whose access has been purchased by one or more Ontario University library.

The e-books purchased by Trent Library are ALL individually listed in TOPCAT and can be found by searching TOPCAT (see the webpage on Finding E-Books). However, these books are accessed from the publisher's website, using the publisher's platform.

Scholars Portal Books provides an alternative source for finding e-books, using the ebrary platform for all titles. Use the search engine to find e-books available to ALL Ontario Universities, or restrict your search to those available at Trent by selecting "Full Text Only" on the search screen. Images of book covers are included when available.

Scholars Portal Books was released in early 2010 with a limited number of e-books (over 100,000) and it will grow as the project matures. It does NOT contain all the e-books available to Trent University. Search TOPCAT, to find other e-books.

Collections Included in Scholars Portal Books:

• Cambridge University Press
• Canadian Health Research Collection
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• Oxford University Press
• Springer
• Open Access (Internet Archives Project)

When you wish to save citations from a search, select the items you wish to save by clicking in the box beside them, then click "My List". Click "Select All", and then "RefWorks". If you don't already have RefWorks open, you'll be prompted to login to your account and the records will be added to your "Last Imported" folder.

When you are looking at a book, the RefWorks button appears at the top of the screen. Click it to add the book citation to your RefWorks account.

This resource uses the ebrary platform, but it's customized for Scholars Portal.

The search engine allows searching by "All Fields" (which includes the full text of the book), as well as by:

• Title
• Author
• Subject
• ISBN
• Publisher
• Publication Year
• Language

The use of * to truncate search terms is available in any field EXCEPT "All Fields".

Chapter downloads are available on Springer titles. More features are coming.

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

In Scholars Portal Books, there's a "Permalink" given for each book under "About this book". This link can be copied and used later.