Table of Contents | Before You Search I Find a Book | Get a Book | E-Books | Other Searches | Requests and Renewals I Exercise I Help

In the previous section you learned how to limit your search to only those e-books included in UMUC's collection. Now you are ready to search for e-books.

The screen shot below shows that you have selected advanced search and Electronic Resources (all). Now just enter your search terms such as business communication and click the search button.

The screen below shows the search results. The search terms are shown in red. You can also see the total number of results retrieved from your search (20 records). The display is set to show records in groups of 10 if you get more than 10 hits.

The next section of the tutorial, Get an E-Book: Viewing or Checking Out E-Books, will discuss how to use the catalog record to get e-books.

For a more advanced search, try searching by subject. Note the subject entries for the item shown below.

The subjects are organizational learning and business enterprises -- communication systems. By using a subject term in your search, like organizational learning, your search would retrieve more focused results. Using subject headings can be a useful search strategy, but try a word/s anywhere search first if you are not familiar with the subject headings for your topic.

To search by subject headings, click your browser's back button to return to the advanced search screen. Then in the search box switch from a search in all fields to a subject search. At the pull down menu, highlight subject rather than all fields.

Click search and you will see your results. Each of the e-books in the results list deals with the subject of organizational learning.

Here are some examples:

The next section of this tutorial, Get an E-Book: Viewing or Checking Out E-Books, will show you how to access these e-books either remotely or from a UMUC location.