Lesson 6 - EBooks on Ebsco

Under the search option I typed “Curing cancer with your diet”.  It gave me 4 non-fiction ebooks to choose from that listed the basic bibliographical information, a picture of the book, a list of subjects in the book, an option to save it to a folder, a link to the full text, and a link to the table of contents.  I chose the most current one called “Handbook of Nutrition and Diet” and clicked on the title.  It gave more specific information about the book and brought me to specific pages in the book where my search words were discussed with the title, “Most Relevant Pages from this eBook”.  It also gave the options of the full ebook text, bookmarking the pages, printing, adding to a folder, e-mailing, saving and creating a note.

When I typed in “Constitution” it gave 166 different results, so I tried to narrow it a little bit by using “United States Constitution” and it narrowed it down to 5 ebooks:  Representing Popular Sovereignty:  The Constitution in American Political Culture, AP U.S. Government and Politics, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment, The Right to Religious Liberty, and Capital Punishment.  The last book did not look as though it was going to be helpful, but when I opened it did have some relevant pages of information.

I typed in Nebraska into the advanced search and was given 56 results of books that were published in Nebraska.  I changed the field to subject and it listed one book about Omaha from 1945-1973.   Choosing the correct field to search in would be very important.  Even leaving the optional select a field blank would not be as productive as narrowing down the search by choosing either subject or title.