{"id":589,"date":"2012-08-02T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T21:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=589"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:26:31","slug":"will-you-consider-a-free-e-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/will-you-consider-a-free-e-textbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Will You Consider a Free E-textbook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/978-1-4020-1460-4\/#section=536834&amp;page=1&amp;locus=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-590 alignleft\" title=\"SpringLink\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/SpringLink-278x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/SpringLink-278x300.png 278w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/SpringLink.png 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a>I just read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwindsor.ca\/dailynews\/2012-07-21\/partnership-to-provide-access-to-etexbooks\">news<\/a>\u00a0that University of Windsor students now have access to their textbooks in digital formats through Flat World Knowledge &#8211; one of the publishers of openly-licensed college textbooks. This reminded me of the electronic books that we have at McGill University. We have more than two million e-books in our collection! They work on a variety of platforms from e-book providers; some of them are major publishers for academic content, such as Springer, Wiley, and Palgrave Macmillan. They are accessible for\u00a0 McGill students and staff for free (see instructions on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-using\/connect\">how to access our online resources<\/a>). You can read them online or choose to download by chapter. The <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/\">Library Catalogue<\/a> is a great place to start your search. For books published recently, I would recommend an extra search on the publisher&#8217;s platform through our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-findinfo\/ebooks\">e-books webpage<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/978-1-4020-1460-4\/#section=536834&amp;page=1&amp;locus=0\">SpringerLink<\/a>, the electronic content platform from Springer &#8211; a globally-known publisher in science, technology, and medicine disciplines also allows\u00a0you to Buy A Print Copy For $24.99 for some of their books. McGill subscriptions in SpringerLink are indicated by a green box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read the news\u00a0that University of Windsor students now have access to their textbooks in digital formats through Flat World Knowledge &#8211; one of the publishers of openly-licensed college textbooks. This reminded me of the electronic books that we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/will-you-consider-a-free-e-textbook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,68],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-e-books","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}