HKTDC Business InfoCentre eBooks Collection

The HKTDC Business InfoCentre eBooks Collection consists of over 300 copyrighted electronic titles covering a variety of topics including electronic commerce, management, leadership, information technology, etc, which are reassessed for relevancy and currency on a regular basis. Also available is access to over 3500+ public access eBooks provided by netLibrary. HKTDC Business InfoCentre members may borrow from this collection. First time users are required to sign up for a netLibrary account at the HKTDC Business InfoCentre for eBooks borrowing and online reading outside HKTDC premises. Registered users may borrow eBooks from our collection for 24 hours.

Instructions on using eBooks

** First time User

Create an account:

http://netlibrary.com/CreateAccount.aspx

Users are reminded to fill in all required information.

** Registered Users

1. If you already have an account, you can log in now, or edit your account to update personal information.
   
   
2. Search on the collection:

   User may browse a list of InfoCentre's eBooks or directly search from the netLibrary. netLibrary search tips are as follows:

• The Full Text Option
  Searches every word in every eBook to find your search criteria. When using Quick Search, the Full Text option also searches for keywords and displays keyword results before full text results.
  
  
• The Author Option
  Searches the names of all authors in a collection to match your search criteria.
  
  
• The Keyword Option
  Searches author, title, subtitle, Library of Congress subject classification, publisher, and ISBN.
  

  For example :
  

  Keyword search : world outlook

Search Result : The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Electronics Production and Testing Equipment

• The Title Option
  Searches for any portion of the title you entered.
  
  
• The Subject Option
  Searches all Library of Congress subject headings.
  
  
• The Publisher Option
  Searches all publishers for the name you entered.
  
  
• The ISBN Option
  Locates your eBook by ISBN number.

3. Reading eBooks

   After locating an eBook online within the collection, users may choose either to read the eBook online, or download it to a PC. By borrowing an eBook, the user will have exclusive access to the book during the check-out period. eBooks are automatically checked back in, so they will always be available to others.

4. Content of the ebook collection

   Besides business management, the collection also has some reference titles. Such as dictionaries on accounting, world market outlook on various products and industries, country information on China and Hong Kong, as well as some industry information such as books on the cultural industries.

   Although these materials only constitute a small portion of the collection at the moment, they do offer important information to the business and trade sectors, especially the market forecasts on different products.

   With more advanced development on e-books, it is envisaged that more new topics in the areas of business and trade will be added to the collection in the future.