LINUS Masthead LINUS July 2000 : Library News

Read a book online

Lim-Yeo Pin Pin, Central Library RIS Dept

You can read selected books on your desktop when you are logged in to NUSNET, without coming to the Library. This means that your access to these books is no longer limited to the opening hours of the library's loan counter. With the electronic version, you also enjoy full text search with hyperlinks to jump to the relevant sections in the book. Currently, the NUS Library has subscribed to over 200 titles from netLibrary, comprising more than a hundred Reserved Books/Readings (RBR) titles and another 123 academic titles. Through netLibrary, you have one interface to the titles subscribed by the NUS Library and over 4,000 free titles including works by Austen, Homer, Shakespeare and Bronte.

How to access?

Alternatively:

  • Use LINC to search by title, author, keyword or subject.

Welcome screen with search form for netLibrary

When you Browse Ebooks by Publisher, you will get the welcome screen for NUS Library with a search screen with options to search the library collection of subscribed titles and the public collection.

After searching, the list of books which you can check out is shown

You need to create an account which allows you to check out a subscribed title for 2 hours. After checking out the book, click on the Read button under Options to get the table of contents with the cover. Without an account, you can only preview the book for 15 minutes.

Table of contents for the ebook

You can navigate to a specific chapter or page. Click on search eBook to search for the occurrence of a word in the entire text of the book. Or you can use the index of the book to jump to the appropriate pages in the book.

Check in the book when you are finished reading it. If the book has been checked out by another person, you will get a message that all available copies are checked out and to try again later.

Click on Power Search and select only Public Collection to look for free ebooks. Books in the public collection can be read without needing to check the book out and without time restriction. Please be selective about the total amount you print from the book, warnings are issued if you do excessive printing.

Checking out Ebooks in netLibrary will not affect your normal loan entitlement of library materials. Note that you are not able to place a hold on an Ebook that is checked out by another user.

In addition to Ebooks from netLibrary you are also able to access through the NUS Digital Library Ebooks published by the Association for Computing Machinery, Center for International Legal Studies, and Electronic Workshops in Computing from Springer Verlag.

Selected Titles in netLibrary

Confessions Of A Medicine Man by Alfred I. Tauber. MIT Press, 1999

Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry by W. M. A. Niessen. M. Dekker, 1999. SC RBR

Business The Amazon.com Way by Rebecca Saunders. Capstone, 1999. CL RBR

Strategies and games: theory and practice by Prajit K. Dutta. MIT Press, 1999. HL RBR

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Contents Jul 2000

Library News
Considerate behaviour and hand phones
Discover a world of information
Digital Library has a new look
Documents delivered to your desktop
NUS Masters and PhD theses listing
Read a book online
Student card and library card in one
Take care of your belongings
Welcome to NUS Library

Electronic Resources
EIU.com, Country Data and ViewsWire Asia
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics on CD-ROM
Guide to using JUSTIS Weekly Law Reports
New CD-ROM titles at Chinese Library
Search 23 years of Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM
Tips on using LINC

Collection Highlights
Effective Teaching Methods

Other LINUS issues