Free E-books
Jan 30th, 2005 by Karen
Free E-books
This week I spent some time adding free e-books collections to our
OpenURL resolver. The most important set I got added as the
Escholarship editions from the University of California Press.
Information about how to link to these titles and a list of them is
available on the web at http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/help.html
This collection contains almost 500 publically available titles. The
best part is if you have SFX (which we do) there is a target already
set up for you. You don't have to create one on your own. This
basically means all you have to do is turn things on. Since our
monography budget has taken a serious hit this year, access to these
e-books is very helpful. Does anyone have other collections of freely
available e-books that they have added to their OPAC or OpenURL
resolver? If so, drop me a note using the email link and let me know.
I'm very interested in trying to make as many free resources available
to my users as possible.
