One of our most common ebook sources is ebrary (which is now owned by ProQuest).\u00a0 ebrary has just come out with an updated interface after several years of \u2018the same old thing,\u2019 and two immediate advantages are, first, (to quote Etta James) At Last! we can read the content by scrolling smoothly through many pages rather than having to use the arrow icons in the menu bar to go back and forth one page at a time!\u00a0 And second, the only search box in sight searches in the ebook you\u2019re reading; there were two search boxes in the old version and the most prominent search box could get you lost very fast because it searched everything in ebrary rather than just your ebook.<\/p>\n
For more search functions, there\u2019s now a search menu at the top of the interface.\u00a0 The content now appears on the right with the table of contents on the left, and you can still have a user account where you can select your own \u2018bookshelf\u2019 of titles and keep notes on the content.\u00a0 The various functions, such as magnifying the text, seem to work more smoothly than in the older version.\u00a0 All in all, using the new ebrary interface is a much more pleasant experience than the older version.\u00a0 By the way, while our titles are available for online reading, they won\u2019t download unless we\u2019ve got a multiple-user license for them; that\u2019s why you\u2019ll often see a \u2018Not Available for Download\u2019 message.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been looking at the Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War while writing this; going somewhat beyond Mexico, here\u2019s another ebrary example that\u2019s worth searching for in the catalog or QuickSearch:<\/p>\n
Atlas of the Galilean Satellites<\/p>\n
After the introductory chapters, there\u2019s a fine moon-by-moon display of maps and photographs for Calisto, Ganymede, Europa, and Io. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of our most common ebook sources is ebrary (which is now owned by ProQuest).\u00a0 ebrary has just come out with an updated interface after several years of \u2018the same old thing,\u2019 and two immediate advantages are, first, (to quote Etta James) At Last! we can read the content by scrolling smoothly through many pages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}