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Books: EBSCO and O'Reilly for Higher Education ebook collections: O'Reilly for Higher Education

This guide explains how to search, navigate, and download ebooks from the EBSCO and O'Reilly for Higher Education book collections.

Searching and Browsing

The O'Reilly for Higher Education collection contains over 30,000 E-books, videos, tutorials, and case studies in technology and business. This resource is an update to the Safari Books Online platform. To access O'Reilly, enter your USU email address to gain access. Create an account to use the mobile app, make highlights, and save playlists.

The O'Reilly books are all listed in our library's catalog, and you may find them when you are searching for ebooks on computer science or IT-related topics.  When you are searching for a particular title or subject and wish to limit your search to ebooks, perform an advanced search in Encore or the regular library catalog.  In Encore, limit the format to 'Electronic Book,' or limit the type to 'eBook' in the library catalog.

Encore format search    Catalog ebook type search

When accessing an ebook from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter you A-number and password.

Accessing O'Reilly

When you link access an ebook on the O'Reilly platform, you will be presented with this screen:

O'Reilly welcome screen

From the Select your institution dropdown list, select Not Listed? Click here.

O'Reilly institutions list

If you are a first-time user, you will need to enter your USU email address and click Let's Go. If you've already created an O'Reilly account, click Already a user? Click here and log in. 

O'Reilly academic email screen

First-time users will then receive a subsequent email from O'Reilly inviting you to create a personal password for your account. After completing this step, you will be able to log into O'Reilly and access materials on the platform.

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