Want to try e-books? Here's ebrary!
Have you ever asked yourself, "what's all the fuss about e-books?" Now's your chance to find out!
The Tri-College libraries are testing out ebrary, an online library of 30,000 e-books from 220 of the top academic, scientific, and professional publishers.
The ebrary reader (a one-time download; install is quickest in IE) is full of features. You can search the full text of all the books, read the books online, highlight text and make notes. Click on any word or phrase, then search for that text in Tripod, Google, JSTOR, and other places.
Follow these links to access ebrary:
Let us know what you think!
Comments
Radcliffe Edmonds said on July 26, 2006 10:49 AM:[link to this]
Greetings! I tried to load it in IE, although I am always unhappy with any program that only works on a given browser. However, while it tried to install, it informed me that I did not have enough "access privileges". I'm not sure what that means, but I suspect that the problem might occur for others. Also, only the first of the links on the posting actually led me to the ebrary site, the "follow this link" one gave me an error. Maybe it's just me ...
anna h. said on August 18, 2006 5:12 PM:[link to this]
The above comment has been addressed but here are some more details regarding accessing Ebrary:
- On the Swarthmore public Macs, the install restrictions are such that you cannot use the Ebrary Reader (no installs can be made on these machines without an administrative password). Swarthmore public PCs do allow installs for the duration of your login session, so you should be able to use the Ebrary Reader on a public PC.
- The plugin does work in most browsers, not just IE. It works in Netscape, Firefox, and Safari, as well. It does not work with Camino. Contrary to the Ebrary documentation at this time, you can use the plugin with Firefox on a Mac. Their documentation should be changing soon to reflect this.
- In this post, the link behind the graphic as well as the link in the second paragraph are both Bryn Mawr links and will not work for Haverford or Swarthmore. I think the best way to go is to click on the link with the name of the school you are at.
- I'm not sure about other schools, but at least at Swarthmore the Ebrary trial is not activated with EZProxy and can only be used on campus.
- If you would like to access Ebrary from your Intel Mac, you must run your browser as a PowerPC application. Install the reader plugin as normal, but before launching your browser option-click on the icon and select "Get Info". Check the box that says "Open using Rosetta." Then open your browser and the Ebrary reader plugin should work fine. This should not change the settings of your application (for example, in Firefox your SessionSaver will not be affected).