 Hi, this is a quick tutorial on how to locate online resources through the library's catalog also called one search So right now I'm on the Western libraries homepage at library.wwu.edu And I'm just gonna try a broad search for sociology in the in the one search catalog search box here and And click search To see what results I get So I'm getting a lot of results here So I'm getting a couple of different formats journals print books So if I wanted to just see what's available online if I go to the left hand side and go to refine my results column here Under availability, there's a selection for WWU online resources So if I select that and click on the green apply filters button below Now I'm only gonna see results that are available online. So that includes online journal articles ebooks streaming media things like that Now if I wanted to narrow it down by format, maybe narrow it down even further, let's say to ebooks You can also do that under this left hand side menu here under format So right now it's only showing three options But if you go to show more under format, you'll see a lot more options here including ebooks So I'm gonna go ahead and select ebooks and then click on the green apply filters button again And now I'm just getting ebooks that are available through the Western libraries. So there's quite a number of results here for sociology So let's say I actually wanted to view an ebook. I'm gonna go ahead and select the second one Introduction to sociology. So I'm gonna go ahead and select that one click on the title and Now I'm actually getting into the book record here and in order to view the textbook It looks like under view it. There's a link for open textbook library So I'm gonna go ahead and click on that and see where that takes me So it's it's opening up this other page here and if I scroll down it looks like they've updated their your their url So I'm gonna try this updated url here and Now I can actually see the textbook an open textbook library So it took a little bit of clicking but we were able to get here So there's a table of contents on the right hand side and most importantly if I scroll down The formats that are available to actually see the book online So it looks like you can view it online. You can also view a PDF version which you might also be able to print from as well So depending on the ebook that you select from the catalog it might look a little different So it might take a little bit of clicking around to see how you can actually view chapters online How to download print and things like that if you run into any questions as you're doing this There's the green ask us button on the right hand side and it also pops up periodically If you click on that you can actually start a chat with us You can type in your name your email if you'd like to and your question and we'll get back to you as soon as we can