EBSCO Ebook Collection

Subject: General & Disciplinary Science

About

EBSCO-eBook Collection is a database in General and Disciplinary Sciences, which covers various subjects such as Arts & Architecture, Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Economics, Education, Engineering & Technology, Fiction, General Nonfiction, Health & Medicine, History, Law, Literature & Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sciences, Social Sciences, Study Aids & Language Learning, and more. The database provides Full text in eBook online and offline format. Office of Academic Resources has subscribed the database for CU community.

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.

Access the database by clicking on eBook Collection. Then the homepage will be shown as the following picture.

Users can see many ways which are provided by the database at the top menu, to help you found what you want from eBook Collection, including New Search, eBooks, and Dictionary.

New Search

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

Click on + icon for adding more search terms box.

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

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

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 eBooks’ title list and more functions that users can work on as following:

5.1 Refine Search by Full Text/Download Available, Publication Date, Source Types, Subject, and Category

5.2 Sort Results by Relevance, Date, Source, Author, Title, 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 View Table of Contents, eBook Full Text, or Download (Offline-if available)

*Users have to log in the database before downloading eBook. And can read it on your computer using Adobe Digital Editions.*

6. View more detail about each item by clicking on the title. The detail of eBook includes full bibliography, index of this eBook.

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

eBook

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

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

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

3. Featured eBooks - The Latest Added eBooks in each category is displayed here. Users can use the left and right arrows, or click on View All to view a result list of all Featured eBooks.

**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 on browse.
The definition of ‘Human’ is shown as this picture below.

eBook Viewer Tool

If users select viewing eBook Full Text, you have to interact with this eBook Viewer Tool while reading online.

1. Table of Contents - Users can go directly to a chapter in the eBook Viewer tool by clicking on a hyperlinked chapter.

2. Shift page - At the bottom, users can use the left and right arrows, or type page number in the box, to shift page.

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