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The Library adds 4,000 titles from netLibrary's Academic eBook Collection
Since 2001, Northwestern University Library has offered access to electronic books from netLibrary. Recently the Library subscribed, through the Missouri Library Network Corporation, to more than 4,000 additional books in the company’s Academic eBook Collection. This interdisciplinary collection includes recently published scholarly and professional titles from major publishers in many different fields.
The netLibrary eBooks are listed in NUcat, the Library catalog, or can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by linking directly to the netLibrary database. Northwestern students and faculty can search this web site of more than 17,500 eBooks by keywords, subject, author, title, or even by publisher. Every book in the collection becomes a searchable database when the reader uses the “Find” feature to pinpoint words and phrases wherever they occur in the text.
Last week Northwestern students and faculty looked at netLibrary eBooks 153 times. The five titles with the highest usage show the interdisciplinary range of our netLibrary collection:
1. The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800
2. The Academic Job Search Handbook
3. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
4. The Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1696 and the Franciscan Missions in New Mexico: Letters of the Missionaries and Related Documents
5. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.
During academic year 2004-2005, netLibrary eBooks were accessed 10,793 times. The most frequent users of the netLibrary eBook collection accessed eBooks in business and management, the social sciences, medicine, literature, and computer science.
Researchers who find the netLibrary eBook collection useful may also want to take a look at the Library’s Ebrary collection of electronic books. These titles are also listed in NUcat, the Library’s catalog.
Leslie Bjorncrantz