{"id":707,"date":"2006-09-05T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lulibrary.wordpress.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2006-09-05T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T16:00:13","slug":"thousands-of-e-books-now-available-through-netlibrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/2006\/09\/05\/thousands-of-e-books-now-available-through-netlibrary\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of E-Books Now Available\u00a0Through\u00a0NetLibrary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greenwood Library now has access to over 11,000 e-books. Most of these are in the recently acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/login.proxy.longwood.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.netlibrary.com\">NetLibrary Shared Collection V<\/a>, which includes full-text versions of over 6,000 recent books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction as well as 3,400 titles from Project Gutenberg, BiblioBytes and other publicly-accessible digital libraries. Many of the NetLibrary titles are listed in the online catalog; all of the NetLibrary e-books can  be searched by keyword, subject, author, title or full-text from the NetLibrary database interface. Longwood users may create a personal NetLibrary account to save favorite e-books with custom notes.<\/p>\n<p>Other e-book collections available at the Greenwood Library include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.proxy.longwood.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/infotrac.galegroup.com\/itweb\/viva_lwc_main?db=GVRL\">Gale Virtual Reference Library<\/a> (a growing collection of online subject encyclopedias and reference works)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/login.proxy.longwood.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.historyebook.org\">History E-Book Project<\/a> (over 1,000 current and out-of-print books on  American, Asian, European, Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern history)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/login.proxy.longwood.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\">Oxford Reference Online<\/a> (over 140 Oxford University Press current reference books on a broad range of topics, including bilingual and subject-specific dictionaries as well as world maps and flags)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/login.proxy.longwood.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/proquest.safaribooksonline.com\/?uicode=longwood\">Safari Tech Books Online<\/a> (200 recent technology books from major IT publishers, including O&#8217;Reilly and The Pearson Technology Group, browseable by category or search by keyword or code fragment)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greenwood Library now has access to over 11,000 e-books. Most of these are in the recently acquired NetLibrary Shared Collection V, which includes full-text versions of over 6,000 recent books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction as well as 3,400 titles from Project Gutenberg, BiblioBytes and other publicly-accessible digital libraries. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3874,36450],"tags":[31578,48015],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases","category-technology","tag-catalog","tag-pcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/longwoodulib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}