Electronic Books - netLibrary

UCSD Libraries recently acquired access to over 600 electronic books available from netLibrary. NetLibrary is one of the numerous electronic book producers and distributors emerging in recent months. NetLibrary books can be read on the web, browsed (for free), and checked out (if owned by UCSD). Once checked out, netLibrary books may be downloaded, searched, electronically highlighted, and annotated.

NETLIBRARY COLLECTIONS: Our netLibrary e-book selections comprise three major subject categories:

Computing titles include many published by Macmillan, MIT Press, McGraw Hill, O'Reilly, and other professional and popular publishing houses. Computer-related subjects online are primarily practical applications and development tools: Java, C++, routers, Internet telephony, Linux, and Perl are examples.

Economics titles are published by MIT Press, Brookings, World Bank, UC Press, Harvard Business School Press, McGraw Hill, M.E. Sharpe, John Wiley, and other quality houses. Authors online include Robert Barro, Barry Eichengreen, Dale Jorgenson, Paul Krugman, and Ronald McKinnon, among many others.

Cognitive science titles are MIT Press books offered through MIT's Cognet web site, and include topics in robotics, genetic programming, bioinformatics, children's cognition, and much more. (NOTE: Due to differences in how the MIT Press books are licensed, online access may be problematic. Accessing the netLibrary site through UCSD and later through the MIT Cognet web site, or vice versa, creates a conflict between authentication methods for both netLibrary and Cognet. To resolve this problem, you may need to clear the cache on your browser before proceeding.)

HOW TO FIND THEM: The easiest way to find all of our cataloged netLibrary e-books is by doing a Title search on the Roger library catalog for the term "netlibrary." This technique yields a list of available netLibrary collections. After choosing a collection, clicking any title in the resulting records will display our print and e-book holdings for that title. Many e-books are also held by the Libraries in a traditional print format, but others are only available online. Clicking the link under the "Available online:" heading in the Roger record will take you directly to the netLibrary site for the selected book. Here you will see choices to "Preview" or "Checkout" the item.

HOW TO READ THEM: The netLibrary "Preview" function allows instant page-by-page browsing from the title page through to the final index entry, with equations, tables, notes, bibliographies, and other scholarly matter faithfully reproduced on screen. A "Checkout" function, which claims the book for your uncontested use for a 24-hour period (2 hours if on reserve), is also available after a brief, one-time online registration process. To check out books or download a netLibrary off-line reader, you will need a netLibrary account. If you have not already done so, open an account by clicking on "create account" at the top of the welcome page (http://www.netlibrary.com/). Once in the e-book site itself, you can also perform full-text word searches across our selections, or even against the entire netLibrary stable of 20,000 university and trade press titles, which brings an unprecedented bit of between-the-covers search power to your desktop.

FREE "PUBLIC" COLLECTION: NetLibrary also offers uncataloged online access to many titles for free: this is what they call their "public collection." These can be accessed by anyone, regardless of affiliation with UCSD.