The best way to make an ebook available in your Blackboard course materials is to create a full reference and add a permanent link to the (whole) ebook. The citation would include details of the chapter or pages you require students to refer to. Any number of ebooks can be listed as long as the content is hosted on the vendor's site (eg Proquest Ebook Central) and is referenced accordingly.

NOTE: Do not use the 'Permalink' hyperlinks in FiNDit as ebook links. They return the user to FiNDit, and the length of the URLs may be problematic in accessing the resource when pasted elsewhere.


 

ProQuest Ebook Central

For instructions on copying ebook links from ProQuest Ebook Central platform (previously known as EBL and Ebrary), please see the University Staff - ebooks guide, linked below.

 

Examples of how to copy ebook links from other ebook platforms:

Copying OVID Medical and Nursing ebook links:

  1. Go to the Nursing Made Incredibly Easy database, select and open the required title
  2. Click on the Tools icon (box with an arrow) in the top right of the ebook reader window. 
  3. Choose Email link from the menu, and either copy the Jumpstart URL at the top of the new page, or the email link.
  4. Paste link into your learning materials and include the reference to the source, for example**:

Webb, A. (Ed.). (2016). Nursing procedures made incredibly easy! (2nd ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. https://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=booktext&D=books2&AN=01845107/2nd_Edition/2&XPATH=/OVIDBOOK%5b1%5d/METADATA%5b1%5d/TBY%5b1%5d 
 

 

Copying a link to a chapter in OVID Medical and Nursing ebooks:

  1. Click on the required chapter listed in the table of contents
  2. Click on the Email Jumpstart link located at the top of the page and either copy jumpstart URL or email link
  3. Paste link into your learning materials and include reference to source
     

Copying Oxford Medical Handbooks Online links:

  1. Go to the Oxford Medical Handbooks Online database and select and open required title
  2. Click on the pencil icon at the top right of the page (labelled Cite) and copy the URL from the pop up citation, or: Right mouse click on the required title from the Handbooks A-Z list and Copy Shortcut or Copy link address (depending on your browser).
  3. Paste URL into learning materials and include reference to source, for example**:

Allman, K., Wilson, I., & O'Donnell, A. (Eds.). (2015). Oxford handbook of anaesthesia (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. https://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780198719410.001.0001/med-9780198719410
 

Copying Oxford Scholarship Online ebook links:

  1. Go to Oxford Scholarship Online and select and open required title
  2. Click on the pencil icon at the top right of the page (labelled Cite) and copy the URL from the pop up citation
  3. Paste link into your learning materials and include reference to source, for example**:

McHugh, P. G. (2010). Aboriginal societies and the Common Law: A history of sovereignty, status, and self-determination. Oxford University Press. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198252481.001.0001/acprof-9780198252481
 

**The URLs noted in these examples are for the purpose of assisting students to locate the resource from Blackboard only. References used in scholarly work will differ from the examples above. See the links below for the correct citation information Please contact your Research Services Librarian should you require further assistance.

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