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Scientific Information Retrieval

Ebook Central E-books

Ebook Central contains over 100,000 e-books of various academic subject areas.  You find all these books in LUC-Finna. You can search e-books also by using the native user interface of Ebook Central, see: Ebook Central Guide

Reading books

To open the book in LUC-Finna click the link "Ebook Central Academic Complete ..."


User's Rights to the Books

  1. At first you'll get information about access, your rights to copy and print
  2. You can start reading by clicking "Read Online"
  3. Or you can download the full text for 21 days
  4. You can export the reference to Mendeley by clicking "Cite Book" and then "Export citation"

the details of the book

Read the Book

  1. You can search within the contents of the book that you are reading.
  2. You will get a bibliographical citation of the book or you can export the reference to RefWorks
  3. You need to create your own username and password, if you want to use all properties of Tools. Select Sign in and click Join Ebook Central  and fill in the form. Then you can for example
    • add the book to your own bookshelf (4.)
    • highlight text in different colours (5)
    • add and edit bookmarks and notes (6)

read online review