Ebooks at Pfau Library: O'Reilly (aka Safari)
O'Reilly Books Online
- O'Reilly Online Learning Ebooks This link opens in a new windowEbooks as well as training videos and "learning paths." Focuses on computer sciences, but also covers business. Unlimited number of users. You will always be asked to login via MyCoyote, both on and off campus.
User limits?
No simultaneous user limits.
Link to a chapter in O'Reilly (formerly Safari) ebooks
For O'Reilly Books:
- O'Reilly Online Learning Ebooks This link opens in a new window
- Display the book, book section, or video you wish to link to.
- Copy the URL that appears in the "Location" or "Address" box on your Web browser.
- Replace the string "https://learning.oreilly.com" with the string "https://go.oreilly.com/CSU-SanBernardino"
- Do not add the proxy prefix! The change in the URL is telling O'Reilly who we are.
Example:
You want to direct your students to chapter 6 of the O'Reilly book Leadership Matters. This URL displays in your browser:
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/leadership-matters/9781351263627/xhtml/Ch06.xhtml
To use the link in your course web pages, change the first part of the URL:
https://go.oreilly.com/CSU-SanBernardino/library/view/leadership-matters/9781351263627/xhtml/Ch06.xhtml
Download options vary!
The Safari/O'Reilly platform comes in two flavors: The web site, and the app.
The O'Reilly web site does NOT allow downloading at all. You must read the book online.
The O'Reilly app (called "O'Reilly Media") DOES allow downloading, but only for reading within the app itself. When you download an O"Reilly ri book to the app, you can read it even when you are offline, but you cannot export the book in any other format or view it outside O'Reilly Media.
Neither the web site nor the app offers any option for printing.
You can download the app here:
Using O'Reilly Media
The first time you open the O'Reilly Media app, you will be prompted to login with your institutional account.
USE YOUR OFFICIAL CSUSB EMAIL ACCOUNT, that is, the address ending in @csusb.edu or @coyote.csusb.edu
You will be directed to MyCoyote to sign in.
On Android phones, menu options appear under the 3-bar icon at the upper left of the screen:
On iPhones, the menu options display at the bottom of the screen:
(Remaining screenshots will show Android only.)
Once you find a book you want, open it, then tap the 1-2-3 icon at lower right. The Download options will appear in that menu.
Once you have downloaded a book, you can read it within the app at any time, even if you don't have a network connection. To read a book that you have not downloaded, you must be online.