KL adds 16,000+ ebooks!

More e-books are now available to all CCU users from Springer, a publisher with a long history of books in medicine, public health, biology and the social sciences, and more recently in the humanities.

ALL are published after 2005, and 2010 titles will be added this year as they are released.

Locate these books through the KL catalog or at the Springerlink site.

The Springer site has some glitches. For one - you can see book titles that we don't have access to. The green box means we have the FT of the book (or journal.) It has been very sssssslllllloooooowwww lately - a call to tech support confirmed that this was a Springer issue and not us.

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia is now available online through Kimbel Library

Good news! Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia is now available online through Kimbel Library. This is a great quick reference for detailed information on all types of animals, including lower metazoans and lesser deuterostomes, protostomes, fishes, insects, birds, and mammals. Entries include information about habitat, physical characteristics, distribution, behavior, diet, reproduction, conservation, and more. Grzimek's is available through the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

An e-book for easy, online seashell identification

Guide to Seashells of the World is just one of Kimbel Library's many e-books. E-books offer the convenience of reading online from anywhere, as well as the ability to keyword search for exactly what you are looking for inside a book's pages. Check out Credo Reference, Oxford Reference Online, NetLibrary, Ebrary, and the Gale Virtual Reference Library for more easy to use e-books from Kimbel Library.

Resources to help with end-of-semester projects. Free ebook trial!

It is that time of the semester when we are all feeling the demands of papers and research coming due! We have access to a great resource that could help you out, but you will need to take advantage of this before April 30, 2009!

We have trial access to 12,000 of SpringerLink's extensive collection of ebooks. These books cover subjects from ranging from the Humanities to Sciences. Please take some time to browse the books in your subject area to look for helpful resources for your research.

To access the database, go to this link. http://springerlink.com/books/?db=20050101&de=20090204&sort=p_OnlineDate&sortorder=desc&Language=English

Navigation help:

• To browse a subject area, choose Subject Collections from the top of the screen.


• The original search results include articles as well as ebooks. To see only books, choose Content Type of Books or Book Chapters on the list at the right side of screen.


• After choosing a book, chapters appear as separate PDF files.


• To search within the books, you can find more by choosing the Content Type of Book Chapters.

Please send us your feedback. Simply reply to this blog post to tell us what you think of the content. Would you like to see these books as a permanent part of our collection?

Thank you and best of luck in your research!