E-BOOKS MADE EASY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In addition to e-journals, the UF Libraries are providing access to a rapidly increasing number of e-books. In most cases these are for viewing on a regular computer screen, and require no special devices or software. To locate e-books... (a) search the UF catalog, as you normally would and you will be directed to e-versions of books if available, or to print, or to both. Limiting ones search to online resources can eliminate most print books. -OR- (b) search directly in the website of a specific e-book provider while on campus or connected to the campus network via the UF Proxy. Of course, this will lead only to titles offered by a given provider, so the catalog may still be the best way to draw from a variety of sources. One major provider for UF is MyiLibrary, which carries titles from some of the leading US and British academic presses. A recent sample of titles and publishers includes... Cooperatives and socialism : a view from Cuba Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. lib.myilibrary/ProductDetail.aspx?id=425930 Cruel Modernity Jean Franco Duke University Press, 2013 lib.myilibrary/ProductDetail.aspx?id=491746 Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America Stephen B. Kaplan Cambridge University Press, 2013 lib.myilibrary/ProductDetail.aspx?id=463145 Latin American Development Julie Cupples Routledge, 2013 lib.myilibrary/ProductDetail.aspx?id=478200 Negotiating Empire : The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico, 1898–1952 Solsiree del Moral University of Wisconsin Press, 2013 lib.myilibrary/ProductDetail.aspx?id=430354 El Norte or bust! : how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town David Stoll. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013 lib.myilibrary/ProductDetail.aspx?id=416069 Slavery and Antislavery in Spains Atlantic Empire Josep M Fradera, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Berghahn Books, 2013 lib.myilibrary/ProductDetail.aspx?id=509044 UF subscribes to other providers of e-books, as evidenced by this small sample... E-Libro: La anomia en la novela de crímenes en Colombia Gustavo Forero Quintero, Bogota: Siglo del Hombre Editores, 2012 site.ebrary/lib/univflorida/docDetail.action?docID=10638149 World Bank: New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean Hugo Nopo World Bank, 2012 elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-8686-6 Springer: Earthquake Disasters in Latin America: A Holistic Approach Heriberta Castaños, Cinna Lomnitz Springer 2012 link.springer/book/10.1007/978-94-007-2810-3 All of the above subscription-based services, and they supply records that are incorporated into the UF catalog, so that patrons searching the catalog will be directed to that book. University and non-profit institutional presses use e-books as a way to make out-of-print titles available freely to users, and in some cases we have added records to the catalog to show this. Some examples include: Black labor on a white canal : Panama, 1904-1981 Michael L. Conniff. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1985. F1577.B55 C67 1985 (print in LAC) digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735057893350;view=toc;c=pittpress Los indios y las ciudades de Nueva España Felipe Castro Gutiérrez, Margarita Vargas Betancourt, et al. México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2010. F1220 .I64 2010 (print in LAC) historicas.unam.mx/publicaciones/publicadigital/libros/indiosciudades/indiosciudades.html Man in the Amazon [Latin American Conference University of Florida 1973] Edited by Charles Wagley. Gainesville : University Presses of Florida, 1974. 980.006 L357 1973 (print in LAC) ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00100565 True-Born Maroons Kenneth M. Bilby Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2008 F1869.N4 B55 2008 (print in LAC) hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04560.0001.001
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