Ebooks at Unitec Library

How to get the best use of the ebooks provided by Unitec Library.

Referencing Taylor & Francis E-books

For ākonga/students using APA 7th Referencing (Most students at Unitec)

When you first access the home page of a Taylor & Francis E-book, this icon appears: 

Clicking on that will give you a reference for the e-book in APA 7th format.  However, the reference quite likely isn't correct. 

IMPORTANT: Always double-check the Taylor & Francis -generated with the example on the Unitec APA 7th referencing guide to check it is correct.

(For example: 'libproxy.unitec.ac.nz' should not appear in the DOI).

 

For ākonga/students using Chicago 17th Referencing (Architecture students)

Use the Chicago 17th referencing guide to correctly cite this e-book. (See the 'Electronic books' section.)

Using Taylor & Francis E-Books

1.  In the library catalogue record, look for the View Online section and click on the link beside 'Full-Text available at:'

2. Log-in with your Unitec user name and password. NOTE: Your user name here is your short user name (e.g. bloggj01 (students) or jbloggs (staff)).

3. The e-book home page should open.

4. Taylor & Francis e-books offer a couple of ways to read online and download. IMPORTANT: Taylor & Francis e-books can be a bit slow. Please be patient.

Reading Online

(a) Reading the whole e-book

- From the home screen of the e-book, click the  button to open the whole e-book in EPUB format.

(b) Reading a chapter of the e-book

- From the home screen of the e-book, scroll down to the chapters. Click on a chapter title to open the screen for that chapter. Then click the  button to open that chapter of the e-book in PDF format.

Downloading

(a) Download the whole e-book

- From the home screen of the e-book, click the  menu to download the whole e-book into EPUB format (be patient, this can take a while).

(b) Download a chapter of the e-book

- On the home screen of the e-book, scroll down to the chapters. Click the  button beside the chapter you want. A PDF version of that chapter will download.

(c) Downloading after you have started reading the book online

OR While reading a chapter, click the  button at the top of the page to download that chapter to PDF format.

5. At the top of the screen of an e-book are several useful features:

 - You can zoom in and out and change how the e-book fits on your computer screen

 - Have the text read out to you. 

 You can change the e-book to PDF format (be patient, it takes a little while!)

 You can change the font size, alignment and direction of reading. (Note: only the direction of reading can be changed in PDF format)

6. In the menu on the left of an e-book are more useful buttons:

 Search for a keyword and you will be shown where that keyword appears in the e-book text. 

 Access the table of contents of the e-book.

 Print a selection of pages of the e-book or even the whole e-book.

 

Printing & Copying parts of Taylor & Francis E-Books

For print books, you can photocopy the pages you like the look of. For e-books, the alternative is to print, save or copy the parts of the e-books that you need.

Taylor & Francis e-books have no limit on the number of pages you can print, download, save etc. 

Printing

To print some pages of the e-book or the whole e-book, use the  icon in the menu on the left-hand side of the e-book.

Copying

To copy some of the text in an e-book, highlight the section you want to copy with your mouse. A pop-up screen will then appear.

Choose  or . The text will download to your clipboard.