OSU library provides additional scholarly resources with eBooks

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Oklahoma State University community members have access to over 115,000 eBooks through the OSU Library.

The eBooks can be accessed from the library’s website through electronic libraries such as NetLibrary, Knovel and Early English Books Online (EEBO).

“The eBooks are especially good for technical books, because when a field of study changes, there are not volumes and volumes of outdated information taking up space,” said Christina Biles, Digital Services Librarian.

Services like Knovel deal predominantly with sciences like engineering, chemistry and physics, while services like EEBO contain works by early English authors.

“Knovel is really useful and neat because along with books, it has data sets and tables readily available for manipulation,” said Beth Reiten, Digital Services Librarian.

These services are free of charge and students and faculty are encouraged to use these resources.

To access the OSU Library’s collection of eBooks go to www.library.okstate.edu, or for more information contact Digital Library Services at 405-744-9161, toll-free outside of Stillwater at 877-744-9161 or lib-dls@okstate.edu.