{"id":7288,"date":"2018-01-17T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2018-01-17T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:18:27","slug":"expanding-the-academic-e-book-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/?p=7288","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the academic e-book collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From now on we have added almost 300 000 ebooks on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/unilu-ebooks\/home.action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebook Central platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/blog3-1024x328.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/blog3-1024x328.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/blog3-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/blog3-768x246.png 768w, https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/blog3.png 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subjects covered:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Arts<br \/>\n\u2022 Business<br \/>\n\u2022 Education<br \/>\n\u2022 Health &amp; Medicine<br \/>\n\u2022 History<br \/>\n\u2022 Law<br \/>\n\u2022 Literature &amp; Language<br \/>\n\u2022 Religion &amp; Philosophy<br \/>\n\u2022 Science &amp; Technology<br \/>\n\u2022 Social Sciences<\/p>\n<p>The collection includes ebooks from renowned publishers like Oxford University Press, Taylor &amp; Francis, MIT Press, Harvard University Press, Elsevier Science, Thieme Medical Publishers, Elsevier and many others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Software needed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To download an entire book you need\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/solutions\/ebook\/digital-editions\/download.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe Digital Editions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>To download to iOS and Android devices, you need\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluefirereader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluefire Reader<\/a>, which is free from the App Store and Google Play. You need to create a free Adobe ID to use Bluefire Reader.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enter your library credentials under <a href=\"http:\/\/a-z.lu\/primo-explore\/search?tab=all_content&amp;sortby=rank&amp;vid=BIBNET&amp;lang=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a-z.lu<\/a> and check out the more than half a million e-books from all kind of topics that we made accessible for you.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you may access all of the available ebooks on Ebook Central <a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/unilu-ebooks\/home.action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All ebooks can be accessed from anywhere with a valid library subscription of National Library, University, LIST or LIH.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please access to the video tutorials\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL-aFAdxOSTDdgMAjy0ZWA96-2L2XJd5bw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebook Central training videos<\/a>\u00a0or visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/proquest.libguides.com\/ebookcentral\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProQuest Ebook Central LibGuide<\/a>\u00a0for a comprehensive guide to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t hesitate to contact us if you have questions\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:help@findit.lu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help@findit.lu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ebook.jpg 721w, https:\/\/www.consortium.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ebook-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From now on we have added almost 300 000 ebooks on the Ebook Central platform. 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