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ENVIRON 390K: Human Domination of the Earth/Systems Thinking: Finding Books & E-Books

Research guide for Dr. James Reynolds' course, 2016

Finding and using ebooks

As you search the library catalog for books, you will find lots of ebooks (see below). Click on the  button to access the book online. 

For help using ebooks, refer  to the library's getting started guide to reading, downloading, and using ebooks.

More in depth information about print limits, transferring to mobile devices, online reading and special features is available on this comprehensive eBook guide.

E-books

The Library offers a large number of ebooks on specific topics related to this course.  Use the ebooks tab on the Library homepage and search for your specific topic.  For example:

You can also add other keywords to the search to make the results more relevant or use the facets on the left side of the results page to narrow your search.

Finding Book Chapters to Request through Interlibrary Loan

Here are the steps for finding and requesting a chapter of a book that is not available in the DKU Library:

Use the Duke Libraries search at, http://library.duke.edu/.  Once you find a book you think might be useful, click on the title of the book and then check to see if there is a table of contents given in the catalog page.  If so, copy the title of the book, title of the chapter you need, and page numbers.  Use this information to complete the interlibrary loan request,  http://library.duke.edu/using/document-delivery.  For example, you could request Chapter 6 from this book through ILL:

Featured E-Books

Reading a call number

PR Find the PRs.
6063 The numbers following the letters are read as a whole number. Ex. 6063 comes after 6055. 
.C335 For the next part of the call number, go to the letter(s) and then treat the number(s) as a decimal. Ex. .C335 comes after .C3
Z42 Read the next line's numbers as a whole number. Z42 comes before Z46
2006 The final number, if included, is the year of publication.This book was published in 2006.