Friday, March 2, 2012

eBooks/EBSCO Host

I have to say I found this kind of frustrating. I had trouble searching for something that interested me and finding results that were really of use. I tried environment and then used some of the phrases that popped up. I had to make that a phrase search so that the matches were better but there wasn't much that I would use. It was easy to search though and titles were easy to pull up and look at. If the title has a detailed table of contents, it's easy to go the particular part of the title that you want to see.

The following title would be a good book to recommend to the student. I also found this title by searching the SDLN catalog. The ebooks are cataloged so that all book sources could be found with one search.

eBook
Our Elusive Constitution : Silences, Paradoxes, PrioritiesFull Text Available By: Hoffman, Daniel N. In: SUNY Series in American Constitutionalism. State University of New York Press. 1997. eBook. 299p.
Subjects: LAW / Constitutional; LAW / Constitutional; LAW / Public; LAW / Constitutional; LAW / Public; Law and politics
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

Searching Nebraska using publisher brought up a list of titles published by University of Nebraska Press. This can also be done in SDLN but you will get a list of all of the titles, electronic and physical copies, held by the libraries.

1 comment:

Jane Heitman Healy said...

Good work, Jean. Searching this collection can be frustrating. It is a matter of getting familiar with what's there. It is intended to be a non-fiction supplement to public library holdings. You came out victorious in the end on this one!