Top of the ebooks

Have you discovered our ebooks yet? We’ve got hundreds of books available online. Where possible we always try to buy ebook versions of the books on your reading lists to go with the copies on our shelves. And we’ve got ebooks of titles we don’t have on the shelves too! If you have trouble finding a book for your assignment, it’s always worth checking to see if we have it available online, or if we’ve got any other ebooks that fit the bill.

You can look for ebooks in exactly the same way as you’d search for a “real” book using the library catalogue, which you can find on the library homepage. If you need any help, just ask!

In case you were wondering, our six most popular ebooks since September 2011 are:-

• Management and organisational behaviour (8^th ed.) by Laurie J. Mullins
• Essential teaching skills (3^rd ed.) by Chris Kyriacou
• Beginning teaching (3^rd ed.) by Janet Moyles
• Becoming a teacher: issues in secondary teaching (3^rd ed.) by Justin Dillon and Meg Maguire (we also have the 4^th edition, Becoming a teacher: issues in secondary education, available as an ebook)
• Personality, individual differences, and intelligence by John Maltby, Liz Day and Ann Macaskill
• Research methods for business students (5^th ed.) by Mark Saunders, Philip Lewis and Adrian Thornhill

(We were going to give you our top five, but there was a tie for fifth place!)

SMU's favourite e-books

Have you ever wondered which e-books are the most popular with SMU Library users? Well wonder no more! Here are our top 5 most accessed e-books so far this year (there are actually 6 titles as there's a tie for 5th place):-

1. 'Becoming a Teacher: Isues in Secondary School Teaching' (3rd ed.) by Justin Dillon & Meg Maguire


2. 'An Introduction to Counselling' (4th ed.) by John McLeod


3. 'Management and Organisational Behaviour' (8th ed.) by Laurie J. Mullins


4. 'Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning' (4th ed.) by Graham J. Hooley, Nigel Piercy & Brigitte Nicoulaud


5. 'Contemporary Issues in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour' by Elizabeth Parsons & Pauline Maclaran / 'Race, Culture and Counselling: The Ongoing Challenge' by Colin Lago

We have hundreds of titles available electronically and lots of you have been making use of them, which is good to see. For those of you who haven't yet discovered our e-books, you can find them on our catalogue by searching just as you would for a normal book. You can do this in the library or from anywhere in the world through the library website. You could be swotting from your course text book whilst sunning yourself in the South of France or whilst enjoying the view from a tent on the Gower (just as long as your course text is available as an e-book and you have Internet access and something to view it on!). If you'd like to find out more about our e-books and how to access them, please contact the library to ask.

New e-books available

Check out our new selection of e-books covering a wide variety of subject areas. Over 400 titles have been added to the collection and you can locate them via the Library catalogue or the A-Z listing of e-books on the Library webpages . They can be accessed from home as well as on-campus.