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Creating Links to Specific Titles in netLibrary
All CSU students, faculty, and staff have fulltext, online access to over 11,300 ebooks through netLibrary. Faculty may select specific titles from the netLibrary collection and add hyperlinks to the citations in their online or paper bibliographies. If the bibliography is online (either within Blackboard or on another webpage), students may click on the link and go directly to that title. If the bibliography is in print format, the student may type the link into an Internet browser, or they may choose to go to netLibrary and search for the ebook by title.
When someone clicks on or types a link to a specific netLibrary title, they may choose to browse the ebook for up to 15 minutes without logging in to netLibrary. If they wish to check out the ebook for up to four hours, they will be prompted to log in to netLibrary. If they do not already have a netLibrary account, they will be prompted to create one. To create an account, if they are off campus, they must return to the CSU Library netLibrary create an account webpage.
For more information on netLibrary, go to http://www.netLibrary.com For information on how CSU students, faculty, and staff may register for a netLibrary account, go to the CSU Library netLibrary create an account webpage, which is also accessible through the CSU Library "Databases" and "Catalog" webpages.
To create a link to a specific title in netLibrary:
- Log in to netLibrary
- Search for the title.
- Display the eBook summary screen for the specific ebook. This is the screen you see before you choose to either browse or check out the ebook.
- Copy the URL from the browser's address or location bar.
- You may use this URL as is within your bibliography without making any special changes for off campus vs. on campus usage. Everyone will need to log in to netLibrary to read the ebook whether they are on or off campus, so the same link works for any location.
- You may not link directly to a specific page within a netLibrary ebook, but once the person browses or checks out the ebook, they have the option to enter a specific page number and go directly to that page. So include ebook page numbers in your citation if necessary.
As an example, the following three citations are to specific titles within netLibrary.
You could include the URL in an explicit manner at the end of the citation:
- Goodman, Paul S. Technology Enhanced Learning : Opportunities for Change. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2001. http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=63472
- Kruse, Kevin.; Keil, Jason. Technology-based Training : The Art and Science of Design, Development, and Delivery. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2000. http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=26086
- Rosenberg, Marc Jeffrey. E-learning : Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001. http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=52221
Or, if the bibliography is only online, you might choose to embed the URL and make the title an active hyperlink (but if the student prints off the bibliography, the URL will not print):
- Goodman, Paul S. Technology Enhanced Learning : Opportunities for Change. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2001.
- Kruse, Kevin.; Keil, Jason. Technology-based Training : The Art and Science of Design, Development, and Delivery. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2000.
- Rosenberg, Marc Jeffrey. E-learning : Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001.
Contact Eileen Lutzow at elutzow@csuniv.edu
or 863-7951 if you have any questions or difficulties getting these links
to work properly.
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