EBSCO eAudiobooks

Subject: General & Disciplinary Sciences

About

EBSCO Audiobook Collection is the fiction books database covering various genre such as General, Adventure & Espionage, Historical, Horror & Occult, Humotous, Literature & Classics, Mystery & Suspense, Romance and Science Fiction & Fantasy, which are available in audio format. The database provides a Download Manager software that needs to be installed in user's device in purpose to play a downloaded Audiobook.

How to begin

Go to http://www.car.chula.ac.th/curef-db/slist.html#general and select EBSCOhost Web. The screen will be shown EBSCOhost's gateway as the following picture.

Click on Audiobook Collection to access the database.
On the homepage, New Search, Audiobooks, and Dictionary are provided at the top menu, to help users found what you want from Audiobook Collection.

New Search

The first menu is for Searching with search panel.
1. Advanced Search panel is available for searching on the upper side of the homepage. Users can perform many search terms in specific field, and then select related condition [AND, OR, NOT] to search Audiobook.

Click on + icon for adding more search terms box.

2. Basic Search panel will appear when users click on this option, below the Advanced Search panel. It allows users search with word or phrase filled in the box and click Search.

3. Search Options is a supporter to set Search Modes and Expanders and Limit your results, when users use both Advanced Search and Basic Search. Click on the blue right arrow to turn on Search Options as the following picture.

4. Search History will be saved automatically while searching. Users can check it anytime on above the Search Results' table.

5. Search Results will be displayed Audiobooks’ title list and functions that users can work on as following:

5.1 Refine and Limit Search by Full Text / Audio Available, Publication Date, Source Types, Subject, Narrator, Category, and Length (in hours).

5.2 Sort Results by Relevance, Date, Source, Author, Title, and Date Added.

5.3 Set results format and layout from Page Options.

5.4 Share results via permalink, Add to folder, and create alert.

5.5.Listen a Sample or Download full audio.

*Users have to log in the database and install software ‘Download Manager’ before downloading Audiobook. If not, the system will ask you to install the software automatically.*
For downloading, you can skip to read the topic “How to Download Audiobooks”

6. View more detail about each item by clicking on the title.

And users can found Tools on the right column of this webpage, that provide many options for managing this item as following.

- Add to folder

- Print

- E-mail

- Save

- Cite

- Export citation – Users can choose option available for you such as Direct Export in RIS Format (in case you want to export to EndNote)

- Create Note

- Permalink

- Bookmark

Audiobooks

Underneath this menu, users can browse Audiobooks by many ways as the following:

1. Browse By Categories - Users can select a category (genre) in focus to view all of its collection.

2. Highlights - Using the left and right arrows, or clicking on View All to view a list of all Highlights Audiobooks.

3. Featured Audiobooks - The Latest Added Audiobooks in each category are displayed here. Users can use the left and right arrows, or click on View All to view a list of all Featured Audiobooks.
**Results from browsing will be displayed same as Search Results.**

Dictionary

The database provides an Oxford American College Dictionary for searching definition of any terms.

Users can type word or phrase in the box and click browse.
As this picture below, the definition of ‘acappella’ is shown.

How to Download Audiobooks

When users click on Download tab of the Audiobook at the first time in this database, you will see a new window like this picture.

Step 1-2 : For users who don’t have Download Manager software, select Save to PC/Mac and follow the process of an installation.

Step 3 : For users who have the software already, Click on Checkout & Download. The software will operate downloading of your selected Audiobook, and then transfer it to Apple Devices [via iTunes] or Windows Media Player, depended on user's choice.

Download Manager will show status while downloading and transfering.

Sign out

Select this option on the top right menu bar before leaving the database. (If user use sign in mode)

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by Luca Calcinai