Tag: ebooks
Resource: HathiTrust collection builder tool
Collection Builder in HathiTrust allows users to create their own subsets of the repository to share with others (or keep private). It is an ideal way for researchers to aggregate sources around a particular subject for classes, group projects, or personal use.
To use Collection Builder, you must be logged in to HathiTrust. Click on LOG IN, choose your home institution, and authenticate with your Calnet ID and passphrase.
Then, either from the PageTurner interface or from the full-text search search results page, you can select items to be added to a collection. When logged in, you can add items to a new or existing permanent collection, or a temporary collection. If you are not logged in, a temporary collection is created. One main advantage of saving items to a collection is that you can then perform full text searches on just this subset of HathiTrust content.
Resource: HathiTrust collections
Here are a few updates on HathiTrust’s collection and tools:
HathiTrust currently contains over 11 million volumes, digitized from the partnering library collections:
- 11,135,776 total volumes
- 5,801,121 book titles
- 290,893 serial titles
- 3,897,521,600 pages
Visualizations of holdings by call number, by language, and by publication date are available.
Embed codes are available for the books, allowing you to insert them into any webpage (please note that you may need to update the URL to https for iframes to work properly in recent versions of browsers).
This title came from the “Copyright Review project (CRMS) little gems” collection.
Another way to see some featured titles is to visit HathiTrust on pinterest.
Trials: EEO-Edición Española Online & Digitalia
Through May 31, the Library has access to EEO-Edición Española Online, a collection of more than 1,800 e-books from Spain. Not as large a collection as Digitalia which also includes Latin American publishers and remains on trial for the entire UC system through September 1, EEO makes available in digital form the publications of some of Spain’s most important publishers. Some of these are: Akal, Bellaterra, Casa de Velázquez, CSIC, Editum, Iberoamericana Vervuert, Octaedro, Prensas Universitarias Universidad de Zaragoza, Trotta, Universidad de Deusto.
Accessible through Casalini’s Torrossa platform, EEO also makes use of the same platform and functionality of the Italian e-books and e-journals the Library has been able to acquire this year. Please send comments about your impressions of both Digitalia and Edición Española Online. We are especially interested in knowing if any of these titles might be particularly useful for the research and teaching in your areas of responsibility, even if we already have them in print.
Here are the direct links to both collections:
Digitalia
http://www.digitaliapublishing.com
Edición Española Online (search by language “Spanish” and content type “book”)
http://www.torrossa.it
Resource: Ebooks via Project Muse
The Library has added to its collection over 22,000 full-length monographs available through Project Muse. These works are selected from participating University and Scholarly presses and are fully integrated with Project Muse’s journal content, allowing you to search across the entire collection. The guide provided by the publisher will show you how to best utilize the simple search, advanced search, and facets, which allow you to refine your results list.
Once you locate a book in the database, you will see each section of the book available as a separate PDF. The entire book cannot be downloaded as one file, but there are no restrictions on downloading or printing individual chapters.
Records for these electronic titles will soon be added to OskiCat and will be retrieved along with print and other electronic titles when you search the catalog.