E-books

Did you know that the Southwestern Library has access to over 30,000 e-books? Did you know you can email yourself a portion of an e-book as a PDF? If that sounds interesting continue reading...

E-books can be located by using our library catalog or by going directly to a webpage where you can search for just e-books. To locate an e-book: go to the Articles and Databases webpage and click on "EBSCOhost e-books at Southwestern". You will be prompted for the password to EBSCOhost if you are not on campus. The password may be obtained by filling out the Password Request Form.

After entering the password you will have access to the e-book. Click on the Table of Contents for the book or search for a particular word or phrase, select a page of interest (perhaps the first page of a chapter), and then click on the button labeled "email". Depending on the book you have selected you can email yourself 15-60 pages of the e-book per hour. The pages will arrive in your email inbox as a PDF attachment. You can repeat this process with other e-books immediately, but you will have to wait for an hour to pass before you can send more pages of the first e-book.

Just as you can have copies of magazine and journal articles available to you in your email or downloaded to your computer, you can have entire sections of e-books available to you in the same way. And it comes with MLA (or APA) citation information!

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