This research guide is intended to help you understand the various e-book platforms available at Eastern Florida State College Library to have 24/7 access to over 90,000 titles in the collection.
There are 16 databases for eBooks. Click on 
next to each database name to learn about the features of each.
Popular eBook collections include:
When you find eBooks with a Library Search you are locating them by accessing the indexing of eBook titles, keywords and sometimes tables of contents.
To search cover to cover through every word on every page in every eBook you must log in to a specific eBook collection from the Library Databases List.
Log-in Info
The EFSC Libraries have access to thousands of eBooks through the EBSCO's eBook Collection.
This collection includes reference works and scholarly books from all disciplines. All titles are indexed in the online catalog, by author, subject, and title.
The Virtual Reference Library (Gale) includes hundreds of full-text reference eBooks. Selected titles in GVRL include Business Plans Handbook, Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior, Major Acts of Congress, Poetry for Students, etc.
Ovid eBooks offers a small collection of nursing and allied health eBooks.
There are other free eBook collections available via the Internet: Bartleby Great Books Online, Literature Project, National Academies Press, Online Books, Project Gutenberg.
Go to myEFSC login
Log in using your B-number and Password
Click on Library Resources
Choose "Advanced Search" at the Library Catalog and Discovery Service Homepage
Use the filters to search by Title, Author, Subject, or Any field. Change the material type to Books
*Example of an advanced search for "Pride & Prejudice"
Use the limiters on the left-hand side to "Tweak your results" - choose "Available online"
Click on the links to access the eBook
The 
ABC-CLIO eBook collection consists of eBooks from many disciplines. ABC-CLIO titles are searchable by keyword when you log into the eBook database and are also indexed by subject and title through Mango, the EFSC library online catalog.
ABC-CLIO allows access to unlimited simultaneous users, so you should not be denied access if another student is already viewing an eBook.
Among the topics covered by this collection are:
Literature Criticism Online contains collected literature criticism. LCO is an excellent source for locating scholarly online critical analysis of literary characters, themes, etc.
Each of the titles indexed is a multi-volume set of "encyclopedias" of literary criticism, focusing on literature from a particular time period or a particular genre of literature (poetry, short stories, etc.)
Inside each volume, there are large entries (20+ pages) under the name of the author.
Within each entry a group of critical essays and reviews that were previously published in other places (for ex: The Sewanee Review or The Southern Literary Journal) are compiled together. General overview information about the author is also included: their principal works, biographical information, and a general critical response to their work is reviewed at the beginning of each entry.
Start with an Advanced Search to search by Keyword, Name of Work, Person-By or About, Author of Article, etc.
Can’t use Wikipedia as a research source?
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Try the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), a database with hundreds of full-text eBook reference titles, specifically chosen by the Eastern Florida State College Libraries to address students' research needs at EFSC. |
Examples of questions that can be answered using GVRL:
EFSC Libraries have access to thousands of eBooks through eBook Collection (EBSCO).
EBSCO eBooks cover all disciplines and are indexed in Primo (the online library catalog) by author, subject, and title.
EBSCO eBooks can be:
For details on downloading eBooks, view this short tutorial
EBSCO eBooks Tutorial PowerPoint
When you find eBooks with a Library Search you are locating them by accessing the indexing of eBook titles, keywords and sometimes tables of contents.
To search cover to cover through every word on every page in every eBook you must log in to a specific eBook collection from the Library Databases List.
Log in with your B Number (example: B00999999)
EFSC eBook databases:
Digital Collection (ABC-CLIO)
eBook Collection (EBSCO)
Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Ovid eBooks
Virtual Reference Library (Gale)
When you locate an eBook with a Library Search in Mango, you are searching across the indexed portions of eBook content--titles, subjects, etc.
For cover to cover searching of an eBook collection, click on one of the eBook databases in the list above.
For tips on printing, emailing and citing, use the ABC-CLIO HELP option for more information on the database.
Students wishing to save research notes for future reference can set up and use a personal My Bookshelf account within the ABC-CLIO eBook database.
From any EBSCO database, you can set up a personal EBSCOHost Account which allows you to:
Check out the instructions on How to Create and Manage a MyEBSCO Account. This account/profile will apply to any EBSCO database. For more details, view the My EBSCOhost tutorial.
You can take notes on eBooks and save them to your My EBSCOhost folder for later viewing. Here's how:
Many eBooks are limited to being used by one user at a time. There may be times that a title is not available and a “Sorry, this eBook is in use” message is displayed because that title’s user limit has been reached.
eBooks that are being viewed online can be “closed” and made available to other users, by clicking the Result List, New Search, Back, or Exit links in the eBook Viewer.
If an eBook is left “open” in a browser window but is no longer being used, then the eBook becomes available to other users after the last user’s EBSCOhost session expires (30 minutes, by default) and the system confirms that they haven’t used the title in 5 minutes (for a total of up to 35 minutes).
EBSCO eBook Collection check out and download Instructions
Offline (Download) Checkout Limits:
5 checkouts per user. Checkout duration - 14 days. 5 holds allowed per user. Holds ready duration - 3 days.
The Gale Literary Indexes compile excerpts of criticism (critical summaries) for a given author's work and are available for poetry and short stories as well as major fiction. Each Encyclopedia set is listed as a "Series". Select one or more sets "by Series" from the drop-down menu or search all sets simultaneously.
Above are representative titles included in GVRL. Log on to search across all titles.
When you find eBooks with a Library Search you are locating them by accessing the indexing of eBook titles, keywords and sometimes tables of contents.
To search cover to cover through every word on every page in every eBook you must log in to a specific eBook collection.
The most popular eBook collections are:
Log in with yourB Number (example: B00999999)