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honor to announce the subscription of hundred of
books giving access to full text, Abstracts TOCs and Document Delivery services. These
books are available through world's renowned
Publishers having a variety of books on
Sciences, Technology, Social science and
humanities.
Access through IP/ within GCU Campus
wide network without password
The above online services are
available to staff and students of GC
University. Under the terms of the license
agreements no individual staff or students are
permitted to make additional copies, publish,
distribute, sell or modify any of the
information found on the databases listed below.
Any breaches of these terms could result in the
University's subscription to the relevant
database being discontinued by the HEC. All the resources are
available on national level licenses. Users are
bound to use these resources under copyright
laws. Any authorized or enrolled
researcher/teacher/student of GC University can
access the journals and different databases with
in GCU Campus/library. Person having access will
be strictly bound to obey copyright laws for
convenient services.
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Ebrary
Ebrary acquire integrated collections of e-Books
and other content. Ebrary continues to add quality e-Books and other
authoritative titles to their selection from the world's leading academic and
professional publishers. Ebrary also subscribes
to Academic Complete, a growing e-Book collection that spans all academic
subject areas. Please click the following link to download the ebrary reader (if
it is not installed on your machine) Please
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Digital Library
McGraw
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McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering
Library
McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine
(Temporarily
suspended)
McGraw-Hill's Access Science
Springer E-Books
Springer's Ebooks
are available on perpetual access i.e. fully
downloadable. These books cover a wide range of
disciplines published during 2005-2007.
Please
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How to access E-Books
The access to above 40,000 e-books provided by
Higher Education Commission is available to
institutions registered with HEC Digital Library
only. The access is enabled through IP
authentication so there is no username and
password for access.
There are three different platforms for e-books
Ebrary, Oxford University Press,
and Taylor & Francis.
To Access e-books from Ebrary please
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Please select your institution
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Visit the corresponding link for your
institution.
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To begin using Ebrary, you must first
install the Ebrary Reader.
Click Online
Training
link on the
top right corner and then click on the
Get
Ebrary Reader
button on the
bottom left part of the page.
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On your institutions main page for Ebrary
type your search topic in the
search for
area.
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Browse
– Click the
Browse
button to view the collection by subject.
The subjects are listed per LOC (Library of
Congress) classifications. If you wish to
be more specific with your subject choice,
click on the plus sign to the left of the
subject. A heading tree will then appear and
additional subject headings will be shown.
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Search —
Enter a Search Term for example:
International Monitory Policy and then
click the
Search
button.
Select a book
from your search results and click
on the
cover, title
or
View
link.
You will be taken to the first page on which
your search term appears.
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Navigate
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Click the
Next Search
(arrow with question mark) button to find
the next page in the book of your searched
keyword, or flip all the pages using the
arrow buttons.
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InfoTools
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Use the
InfoTools
menu to link to additional resources in the
Dynamic Content Platform (DCP), your library
and on the Web. InfoTools can be activated
from the ebrary Reader Toolbar, or by
selecting text and right clicking.
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If you turn on the
Toggle Automenu,
the InfoTools menu will come up every time
you select text.
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Bookshelf
—
It automatically saves links to Highlights,
Bookmarks and Notes as you conduct your
research. In the InfoTools menu click Add to
Bookshelf to store on your Personal
Bookshelf for future reference.
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Copying & Printing –
Sequential download of the ebooks is
prohibited and only page by page copying is
possible. You may download up to 40 pages
per session.
To access e-books from Oxford University Press
please
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Quick Search:
Just type a word and go. By default, the Quick
Search searches all parts of the texts except
the full text (i.e. it searches titles, authors,
keywords and abstracts at both book and chapter
levels). So a Quick Search will find your search
terms in titles, book abstracts, chapter
abstracts and keywords.
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Advanced Search:
Gives you more options to construct complex
queries, and ways to refine your search.
Advanced Search searches by: Title, Author,
Keywords, Abstracts, Full Text, ISBN, Year of
Publication, Subject, Sort (By: title, author or
publication date).
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Browse
– On the top navigation bar you will find
three options to browse. You can Browse
By: Title, Subject and Author.
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Viewing the Book
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You
can view the book either by clicking on the
Book Title
or by clicking on the
Full Text
option. There is no software required to
view the book, you will be able to view it
in HTML format.
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Printing —
To print any page, simply use the
Print
Printer Friendly
link in the left-hand navigational
area:
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A preview window will appear with the
correctly formatted pages, minus the site
navigation components. This may not always
produce a perfectly-formatted reproduction
of what you see on screen but will allow
more content to be printed.
To access e-books from Taylor & Francis
please
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Search:
You can use the Search Textbox to search
by: Title, Master eISBN, Author, Keyword,
Series and Pub Date.
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Title:
This option searches for the word or phrase
you’ve entered within the Title field of a book.
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Master eISBN:
Every eBook has an ISBN, just like every print
book has an ISBN. If you know this ISBN (Taylor
& Francis Master eBook ISBNs always begin with
0203), type it here and click Go.
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Author:
This option will find a single word in an
author’s name, either first name or surname, or
you can search for both names together in the
format First Name Surname. e.g. Alex McGlaughlin,
Linda Hargreaves
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Keyword:
This searches for keywords in the bibliographic
information. Commonly used words like 'the' and
'which' are excluded. Searching for two words
e.g. "physical" and "education" will bring up
all results where either the words "physical" or
"education" is set.
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Series:
This searches for a single word within the
series line of the bibliographic information for
each book e.g. searching for the word
'Successful' brings up all titles in the
Successful Teaching series of books.
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Pub Date:
Searches for the publication date of the
original print edition of the book. Searching
for “2001” will list all books published in
2001.
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Full Content Search:
Gives you more options to construct complex
queries, and ways to refine your search.
Advanced Search searches by: Title, Author,
Keywords, Abstracts, Full Text, ISBN, Year of
Publication, Subject, Sort (By: title, author or
publication date).
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Browse
– On the top left navigation bar click the
eBook
button
to browse. You will be able to view the
ebooks with the following details: Book
Title Page, Editor, Master eBook ISBN, No.
of Pages, Originally Published, Status and a
description of eBook.
DX Reader is the software which is required to
view the T&F e-book. It will be automatically
installed on your system when you will view the
Book.
Click on the
Open & Read
Button to view the whole book. When the book
will open in DX Reader you will find different
options on the top menu to navigate like: eCopy,
select Highlight Color, Annotation Manager,
Bookmark Manager, Research Book Manager and
Preferences. You can also jump to your desired
page number by the go to page number option
available on the top menu.
On the left navigation bar you can view Full
Table of Contents. You can jump to your desired
chapter by just clicking its title. You can also
search within the book by writing your search
text in the
Quick Search box
which is on the top left bar.
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Printing —
To print simply use
ePrint button which you can see on the
top menu bar. There are three options available:
Add Page to Print Queue, Add Chapter to Print
Queue and View Print Queue.
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