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Elsevier eBooks offer one of the more easy platforms for accessing eBook content. You do not need additional software to access the Watson Library Collection of Elsevier eBooks, however, these eBooks do lack some of the viewing and reading features offered by other eBook vendors. 

Accessing Elsevier eBooks

• When you arrive at the Elsevier eBooks collection, you will be presented with an alphabetical listing of eBook titles with a search box at the top of the page.  You can either browse this list or search the collection to find what you need.  Because this collection is offered through Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform, it contains primarily scientific eBooks.

• Once you locate a title of interest and select it, you will be presented with a detailed record of the title.  Each title contains a table of contents where you can download or view a PDF of a chapter. 

• To download an individual chapter in PDF format, first select the chapter with the check box to the left of the chapter's title.  Then, select "Download PDF's".  All downloads will be delivered to your computer in the .ZIP file format.  Once a download is complete, you may extract the PDF's using your computer's installed extraction software.

• If you wish to download an entire eBook, select "Download all chapters". As with individual chapters, downloads will be delivered to your computer in the .ZIP file format.  Once a download is complete, you may extract the PDF's using your computer's installed extraction software.

OhioLink Electronic Books Center (EBC) Information

• As a member of OhioLink, the Watson Library enjoys access to various collections of OhioLink eBooks.  These specialized collections allow you to view online or download titles in the .epub format. 
• To view an entire .epub eBook from the OhioLink EBC, you will need an application that is capable of reading .epub files.  Below are a few applications that can be used to read .pub books.
  • Kindle for PC
  • Freda
  • Calibre
  • Sumatra PDF

OhioLink Electronic Books Center (EBC) - Online Access

• Once you locate an eBook of interest, you can view that title easily online by clicking the "Read" link.

OhioLink Electronic Books Center (EBC) - ePub Download

• To download a copy of a title from the OhioLink EBC, just click download icon .

• This will download the .epub file for the title you have selected.  To open these files use one of the selected programs listed above.
• Advanced features are available from the OhioLink EBC platform if you create a profile.  To create a profile, select "Menu" in the upper left of the screen and then "CREATE YOUR PROFILE"

O'Reilly Safari Learning Platform (also referred to as Safari Books Online) provides over 30,000 electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related subjects from two major publishers, O'Reilly & Associates and Pearson Technology Associates.

For access, O'Reilly Safari is unique: unlike other e-book collections at Wilmington College, Safari does not rely on your campus-wide credentials for access; instead, users are only required to provide their Wilmington College email.

Note that the Safari interface can prove confusing for initial access, so please follow the steps below to gain access. Also included on this page is an overview of how to access individual e-books within this vast collection.

How to Access O'Reilly Safari E-Books

Watson Library only subscribes to one collection through ProQuest eBook Central.  This one collection is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)  which was provided by OhioLink via an ARPA grant in early 2023.ink opens in a new window  Titles in this collection operate on the "library check-out" model, where readers who want to download the entire e-book have to check it out for a specified amount of time. There are also options to download individual chapters or page ranges of the e-book, and these features do not have a time limit. The information below provides a detailed overview of how to access, download, and save individual e-books within this vast collection.

Access Option #1: Viewing in Browser & Downloading Individual Chapters

Access Option #2 - Downloading the Entire Book

• Users also have the option to download the entire book. To download an entire book, select the link labelled "Download Book," as shown here:
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Salem Press is a unique eBook offering in the overall collection of Watson Library eBooks.  With Salem Press, you have two options to access a title.  You can access Salem Press eBooks from EBSCO, for assistance with eBooks from EBSCO, please view the "EBSCO eBooks" tutorial. 

Salem Press also offers eBook access from their website as well.  To get access to the native Salem Press Reference eBook collection, you will need authentication credentials to login.  This guide covers that process, but please let us know if you have questions or problems at any time by using the "Ask Us" link on the left.

If you wish to download and read an entire Salem Press title, you will want to perform that action from the EBSCO interface.  If you wish to read or save a small selection (a chapter or page) from a title, you may prefer the Salem Press collection website.  You can save or print content from both, but browsing overall content for what is available from the Salem Press Reference Collection is much easier done by using their website.

Accessing Salem Press Website for eBook Titles

• If you are off-campus, and attempt to access the Salem Press Reference eBook collection, you will arrive at their website (see image below) where you will need to login using credentials that the Watson Library provides.  To receive those login credentials click here.  In order to receive the credentials you must provide the following information:
  • Full Name
  • Wilmington College e-mail address
  • Contact Phone Number
• Once you provide this information, you will immediately receive the credentials.  Use the username and password combination that you receive in the "Login Name/Email Address" and "Password" fields circled below.
• If you are on-campus, you will not need to log in for access to the Salem Press Reference eBook collection.

• Once logged in from off-campus or viewing on-campus, you will see a subject browse page for what the Watson Library has available.  You can also search the collection with a basic Keyword search or an Advanced Search.

• For more assistance with Salem Press eBooks please see the Salem Press Student User Guide.

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Oxford Scholarship Online provides easy access to thousands of books from the world-renowned scholarly list of Oxford University Press. In July 2022 books from Oxford Scholarship Online migrated to the Oxford Academic Platform.

Up-to-date overviews of classic and current research across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Engineering, and Built Environment from Routledge and CRC Press.

Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings.

This Wiley eBooks package includes all Wiley frontlist e-books for publication years 2012-current. Does not include items categorized as reference works.