eBooks are particularly useful if you cannot get onto campus often to loan hard copies of books. Another benefit of eBooks is that there is no limit to the number of people who can access the resource simultaneously, unlike their print equivalents. They are also available 24/7, when the LRC is closed. We have quite a number of core and indicative texts available as eBooks which support programmes delivered by the Relate Institute. This area of the guide takes you through how to access eBooks from sources such as Dawsonera and eBrary.
When you creat a reference for an eBook, it is essentially 2 references in one. The first element refers to the publication details and the format is the same as for a print book.
The 2nd element of the reference indicates that the book is electronic, where it is accessible from and most importantly, the date that you accessed the book that you are using. Here's an example:
Gerson, M. J. (2009) The embedded self: an integrative, psychodynamic and systemic perspective on couples and family therapy. New York: Routledge. [Online] available from: http://www.dawsonera.com [accessed 20th September 2013].
NB. The first element of the reference is the same as for the print version, but if you are accessing the eBook you need to reflect this in the reference, as per the example given above.
