Downloading E-books to E-Readers

Two of the vendors from whom the Graduate Center licenses electronic books have made downloading to mobile devices possible. Downloading books from the EBSCO eBook Collection requires creating a free My EBSCOhost account. (Click the Sign In button at the top of the search screen.) See EBSCO’s list of available devices and additional instructions.

Electronic . . . → Read More: Downloading E-books to E-Readers

E-Book Survey

In a continual effort to understand students’ progressing usage of e-books and their e-book needs, ebrary is re-doing their 2008 Global Student E-book Survey, which was created by over 150 librarians.

Interested in participating?

The 2011 Global Student E-book Survey questionnaire is available today here and will remain open through October 7.

Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

New Electronic Books

As of May 9, the Graduate Center has access to 302 additional electronic books in education, literature, languages and linguistics, and social sciences.  These resources are available through Palgrave Connect Education, Palgrave Connect Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Connect Literature, and Palgrave Connect Social Sciences.  In addition, access to reference books in American and English literature . . . → Read More: New Electronic Books

Black Drama and Women’s Manuscripts

As of May 5, the Graduate Center subscribes to Black Drama, offering 1,462 plays, as well as photographs and other materials related to productions, and Manuscript: Women’s Diaries and Letters, over 69,000 pages of personal writings by American women from the eighteenth, ninteeenth, and twentieth centuries from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.

Bookmark . . . → Read More: Black Drama and Women’s Manuscripts

Black Drama and Women’s Manuscripts

As of May 5, the Graduate Center subscribes to Black Drama, offering 1,462 plays, as well as photographs and other materials related to productions, and Manuscript: Women’s Diaries and Letters, over 69,000 pages of personal writings by American women from the eighteenth, ninteeenth, and twentieth centuries from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.

Bookmark . . . → Read More: Black Drama and Women’s Manuscripts

New and Trial Electronic Resources

As of April 25 the Graduate Center subscribes to Oxford Handbooks Online, a collection of 90 Oxford University Press titles in business and management, philosophy, political science, and religion.  Oxford Handbooks Online may be searched together with Oxford Scholarship Online.  As of April 25, all of CUNY subscribes to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, offering the . . . → Read More: New and Trial Electronic Resources

New and Trial Electronic Resources

As of April 25 the Graduate Center subscribes to Oxford Handbooks Online, a collection of 90 Oxford University Press titles in business and management, philosophy, political science, and religion.  Oxford Handbooks Online may be searched together with Oxford Scholarship Online.  As of April 25, all of CUNY subscribes to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, offering the . . . → Read More: New and Trial Electronic Resources

Literature and Philosophy Texts

CUNY has a trial through April 30 to Past Masters, collection of primary texts by philosophers and literary figures from Aristotle, Jane Austen, and Francis Bacon to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft, and W. B. Yeats.  The texts are scholarly editions from university presses.

Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

SAGE Research Methods Online

The Graduate Center has a trial of SAGE Research Methods Online through December 31.  This resource for exploring methods of social science research includes books, articles, and videos.

Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

Taylor and Francis Electronic Books

A sampling of available electronic books from Taylor and Francis is available to the Graduate Center community through October 1.  Select the eBooks and eFocus-Package tabs to browse the collection.

A sampling of electronic books available from Taylor and Francis is available to the Graduate Center community . . . → Read More: Taylor and Francis Electronic Books