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Children's Books
A guide for navigation of children's books at the Thomas Jefferson Library at UMSL.
Use the second and third search boxes to refine your search.
UMSL subscribes to various collections of ebooks. These collections change. Titles can be removed or added by the providers at any time, but this usually happens twice a year, around the holidays in December/January, and June.
User limits for each book will vary with each book, as will the publisher's restrictions on download & printing options.
Literacy Grant Books
145 ebooks were purchased for the use by UMSL education students. To browse only these books, click on the "Literacy Grant" page at left.
All of these books have a 1 user limit. They are also included in the general EBSCO links.
For more information about UMSL's literacy grant, click here.
Technology & Children
Both the EBSCO collections and the O'Reilly collection have a selection of technology and computer books for children & working with children. Search using terms such as "computers" or "science" along with "children" or "kids".
EBSCO's eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) provides access to digital versions of thousands of books. Both UMSL's individually purchased titles and titles available through the MOBIUS collection are available. While individually purchased titles are static, the MOBIUS collection is dynamic and available titles can change over time, according to publisher agreements.
Content can be searched by keyword, subject, title, author, etc. by using the link above, or you can browse titles by category. All titles can be viewed online, and most can be downloaded and viewed offline.
Books in the collections are usually added and removed twice a year (in January and then in June/July). At this time, only eBooks with multi-user licenses can be downloaded for offline use in order to maintain access for as many people as possible (otherwise the title would be unavailable to all other users until the end of the loan period). Chapters can still be downloaded; this only applies to downloads of the entire book.
The following collections are searched by default: eBook Collection (Second Academic Ebook/College 2 Collection, formerly from NetLibrary), eBook Academic Collection, eBook Community College Collection, eBook Public Library Collection, eBook Clinical Collection , eBook High School Collection, eBook K-8 Collection, and the eBOOK Education Collection.
Covers a wide variety of topics: computers, programming, hardware, system administration, security, general software, business case studies, accounting, careers, presentations, science, medicine, psychology, math, statistics & data science, travel & hobbies.
Formats include learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, videos, etc.
Help: O'Reilly for Higher Education and O'Reilly for Public Libraries
Linking to a book within O'Reilly:
Example URL for Hands-On Machine Learning: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-machine-learning/9781492032632/?ar
The direct link which will authenticate users for this book would be:
https://go.oreilly.com/university-of-missouri-at-st-louis/view/https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-machine-learning/9781492032632/?ar
(adds https://go.oreilly.com/university-of-missouri-at-st-louis/view/ in front of the book's URL)
