You can find the Library's e-books by searching Hunter, using the category 'Books and more' in the same way as you search for books on the Library shelves. See the Finding e-books tab in this guide for further information. You can also search Ebook Central itself. See the information below for further details. Ebook Central has useful and easy-to-navigate help pages, which you can find here.
When you find a title that is provided by Ebook Central you will have to sign in, by first clicking on "view online" and then selecting an institution name. You can choose between "St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust" and "South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust", if you are NHS staff. If you are a St George's student, you select "City St George's".
After logging in, you will be taken to the landing page of the platform.
Search for books by entering a keyword, ISBN,Author or other terms into the the basic search box. E.g Engineering
All the book relevant with term engineering will be shown in the result page.
To find the exact keyword enter the quotes around the keyword phrases e.g "Manufacturing Engineering". Your search results can be futher refined by Book Status, Year Published,Subject,language and author.
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In this page,you can perform full download,Read Online,view the Table of Contents and add your selected book to Bookshelf
In Advanced Search you can search by a specific fields e.g Title, Author, Publisher, ISBN, Subject and etc.
In Advanced Search you can perform pre-filteration by Publication year range, Language, Download format (PDF or EPUB), Book Status (please note the option to limit to Course Reserve eTextbooks) and Number of copies and Collection
After you have completed your search, Ebook Central will take you to the Book Details Page where you can find important information about the book. Book details such as publisher, ISBN, BISAC subject headings and more are found on the right hand side. You can also view the availability of the book in the online library as well as a description of the book before you open it.
Read Online
The button and the link will open the Online Reader, allowing you to enjoy the book in full screen
Download Book
Download the book for online access. You can use Adobe Digital Editions to read the book offline. Once the download period is up, the book will expire and automatically return to the online library.
Download PDF Chapter
This link will take you to the Table of Contents
Online Allowances
These online allowances are per book and reset after a 24 hour period. As you copy pages, print or download pages in PDF, your online allowances will count down. Once you reach your limit, you will have to wait 24 hours before the allowances reset.
You can also save your book to your Bookshelf, share a link to the book and get a citation for the book. The citation feature will also allow you to export to RefWorks or Endnote/Citavi
Table of Contents
Scroll through the relevant chapters in the Table of Contents. The pages for each chapter is listed allowing you the option to download the chapter in PDF whilst keeping track of your online allowances. Clicking Read Online will open the Online Reader to that chapter.
Online allowances for Course Reserve eTextbooks
Please note that the online allowances for Course Reserve eTextbooks are not reset after a 24 hours.
