eBook Guide   Tags: ebooks, ebrary, electronic_books, gvrl, netlibrary  

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HathiTrust contains millions of digital books, journals, government documents, and other volumes, all digitized from research libraries. The collection includes both public domain and in-copyright works across a full range of subjects. Over half of the content is in English, but hundreds of languages are represented, including large amounts of material in German, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

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Access GateWay's eBook Collections  [Off-campus access: MEID + Password]

• Access over 6,000 current eBooks published by ABC-CLIO, GreenWood Press, Praeger and other publishers
• Create your own user account to save pages, add bookmarks and notes to books, and add to bookshelf

• Access over 78,500+ current eBooks from over 500 publishers in the Academic Complete collection. 
• Enhanced QuickView web-based reader now incorporates many of the advanced features, including printing, copying, highlighting, & notes, under the InfoTools tab.  Set preferences upon login  (MEID/PIN) to specify citation format (MLA, APA, etc.) 
• Free ebrary reader plug-in offers advanced features (printing, copying, citing, highlighting, infotools and notes). The plug-in may be downloaded from the ebrary website.  No plug-in is required for QuickView.
• Login to YOUR ebrary account  (MEID + Library PIN) to save pages, add notes, highlight book passages and create your own Bookshelf of favorites.  eBooks can be viewed and a limited number of pages printed, without an account.  No check-out required, allowing multiple readers to access the same title simultaneously. 

• Interdisciplinary selection of over 37,748 eBooks (1,800 eBooks permanent titles owned by the MCCCD Libraries)
• Access over 3,400 titles in the public domain. 
• Includes Cliff Notes for literature. 
• Online checkout period is for 7 days with a personal EBSCOhost account, or brief 15 minute viewing without check out (no personal account needed).  Now with download option.
• Previously NetLibrary

Access GateWay's Reference Ebook Collections [Off-campus access: MEID + Password]

• Over 600 titles from dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature. Includes an image collection and Topic pages.

• An interdisciplinary selection of hundreds of reference titles, specialized subject encyclopedias, handbooks and more across a wide range of subjects. 

  Cross searchable medical encyclopedias from Salem Pess

• Addictions & Substance Abuse
• Complimentary & Alternative Medicine
• Genetics & Inherited Conditions
• Infectious Diseases & Conditions
• Magill's Medical Guide, 6th edition
• Salem: Cancer 
• Psychology & Mental Health

 Cross searchable historical ebooks from Salem Press

• The Decades Series: 1920s to the 1990s in America 
• Great Events in History Series: Ancient World to the 20th Century
• Historical Encyclopedia of American Business

• Milestone Documents

  • Milestone Documents of World Religions
  • Milestone Documents in African-American History
  • Milestone Documents in American History
  • Milestone Docuements in World History
  • Milestone Documents of American Leaders
    
  • Encylopedia of Mathematics and Society
    

 Cross searchable literary ebooks from Salem Press

• Critical Insights: Authors (vasious titles in series)
• Critical Insights: Themes (various titles in series)
• Critical Insights: Works (various titles in series)
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 4th edition
• Critical Survey of Poetry, 4th edition
• Critical Survey of Short Fiction, 4th edition
• Magill's Literary Annual (35 year searchable archive of literary reviews & essays)
• Masterplots, 4th edition

  Cross searchable science encyclopedias from Salem Press

• Applied Science
• Earth Science (various titles in series)
• Encyclopedia of Energy
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues
• Encyclopedia of Global Resources
• Encyclopedia of Global Warming
• Forensic Science