LibGuides: Sociology: eBooks

OhioLINK's EBC

Electronic Book Center
Thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences.

If you'd like to view a short tutorial, there's one to the right! Note that you can access the eBook center in two ways: using the link above, or using the same link on the library's website.

O'Reilly Safari eBooks

O'Reilly Safari Books
Online access to 40,000+ technical books, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths, and audio books from O'Reilly & Associates, HarperCollins, The Pearson Technology Group (including Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams), Packt, and other publishers and learning providers.

You will need to create an account in order to fully use the eBooks in the O'Reilly Safari database.

Click on the O'Reilly Safari link listed above
Choose "Institution not listed?" when asked to select your institution
Enter your NSCC email address
NOTE: You'll have access immediately, but you'll need to validate your account
Validate Account: O’Reilly Safari will send an email in about 20 minutes
Select the link in the email to validate your email address and create a password
Once you have a validated account, sign In to O’Reilly Safari Books on or off-campus

Tutorial

Notes about eBooks

eBooks linked on this page will meet the requirement for an appropriate books source for an academic paper
You cannot print an entire eBook, but you can print several chapters if you need to
You can browse table of contents and chapters to get an idea of where exactly you want to focus your attention