Using eTextbooks - Faculty

What's the big deal about using eBooks or eTextbooks?

The big deal for faculty at KansasCOM is selecting available resources to use in courses and creating links to aid students in accessing them.

Students have the same degree of access to eTexts as faculty, but creating links ensures that students are accessing the correct book and reading the assigned text in order to prepare for class.

The KansasCOM Library provides access to a wide variety of online books and textbooks that faculty may assign as readings for students. Faculty may also decide to assign articles, documents, videos and other materials for students to read or examine in order to prepare for class lectures, discussions, labs or other scholarly activities. 

This guide is intended to assist faculty in creating links to the various eBook platforms available for KansasCOM. If you need information about creating links to other resource types, such as full text articles or streaming videos, please click the information below.

Instructions for creating links is the same no matter which vendor platform an eBook is located. What is different is the information faculty may consider including to guide students to access and read assignments.

Be sure to review instructions for the platform where your text is located. Click the links below to visit the entire collection of eBooks and other teaching resources available.

This video demonstrates how to get a link for a textbook to share with students.

Along with full text access to the books and journals available in library databases are the teaching resources you can use to create content in your courses and assign for students to use in class preparation and other learning activities!

The video below shows just a glimpse of what's available to you. If you need assistance with using any features, please contact the library and we would be happy to help!

Step by step instructions for AccessMedicine or AccessPharmacy

• Locate the title using One Search
• Click the title to see title details
• Click 'Send to'
• Select 'Permalink' from options
• Copy link to clipboard
  • This is the link you will paste in your Canvas course for students to use
• Create instructions for your students to direct them to chapters and/or sections you want them to read
  • Download of individual chapters is allowed (pdf files)
    • Page numbers are visible on the downloaded chapter files
    • You can direct students to read particular sets of pages
  • Online reading
    • You can navigate using sections of each chapter for reading content online
    • List chapter sections for students to read

Video demonstration

Step by step instructions for ClinicalKey

• Locate the title using One Search
• Click the title to see title details
• Click 'Send to'
• Select 'Permalink' from options
• Copy link to clipboard
  • This is the link you will paste in your Canvas course for students to use
• Create instructions for your students to direct them to chapters and/or sections you want them to read
  • Download of individual chapters is allowed when users create an account within our institutional subscription (for some titles)
    • Page numbers are visible on the downloaded chapter files
    • You can direct students to read particular pages or sections
  • Online reading
    • The main page for the book is the list of chapters
    • The page ranges for chapters is listed at the top of each chapter (you have to first click on the title to see pages and navigation
    • You can navigate using sections of each chapter for reading content online using the menu on the left side of the screen
    • List chapters or chapter sections for students to read

Video demonstration

Step by step instructions for LWW Health Library for Medical Education

• Locate the title using One Search
• Click the title to see title details
• Click 'Send to'
• Select 'Permalink' from options
• Copy link to clipboard
  • This is the link you will paste in your Canvas course for students to use
• Create instructions for your students to direct them to chapters and/or sections you want them to read
• LWW does not allow download of chapters or pages, but students may print pages/sections if they prefer not to read online
• Online reading
  • The main page for the book is the list of chapters
  • No page numbers are available
  • You can navigate using sections of each chapter for reading content online using the menu on the left side of the screen
  • List chapters or chapter sections for students to read

Video demonstration