The O'Reilly Online Learning database (also known as O'Reilly for Higher Education) has over 50,000 e-books from O'Reilly Media and 200 other publishers, covering a wide variety of topics in information technology and business. See the links below for brief tutorials or watch the O'Reilly Getting Started video for an overview of the database, which also includes audiobooks, videos, courses, and a knowledgebase for technical questions. .
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Watch this video to see how to find and use electronic books in the O'Reilly Online Learning collection. (2 min 40 sec)
More brief tutorials for using O'Reilly resources, including e-books, videos and courses: O'Reilly playlist
O'Reilly Online Learning is set up for browsing by menu options, but it does have the option to do Advanced searching. See this Help page for more information:
See the link to the guide below for details on how to create persistent links to O'Reilly Higher Education e-books and other items:
Faculty have asked about using O'Reilly books as no-cost course textbooks or supplemental readings. Here is the answer from the publisher:
" There is no limit to the number of users who can view an O'Reilly title at the same time. The entire class can view a book simultaneously with no problem.
However, we do want you to know that is not intended as a textbook replacement for individual classes, but to complement the classroom curriculum as a library resource or in the classroom. We do not recommend you use an O'Reilly title as the main textbook for a class. Some examples of ways to use O'Reilly are to assign a couple of sections, provide content links as supplemental resources, or for recommending as a resource for homework and for problem-solving.
In addition, books and videos are sometimes removed from our system. We have periodic content removals that we aim to coordinate around the school cycle - generally at the end of June and the end of December. Sometimes there are mitigating publisher circumstances that require immediate removal of content."
