Vitalsource e-textbooks for Chemical Engineering students
The Faculty of Engineering is running a pilot project in some departments. The project will offer Chemical Engineering students one key textbook, related to their course, in electronic format.
The faculty together with the Library have chosen the reader application Bookshelf from VitalSource. Some of the advantages of these e-books are listed below:
- Have constant access to your textbook
- Work on it across 3 devices
- Highlight text and make notes
- Share your notes and highlights with others if you wish
- Your lecturer can share his/her notes and highlights with you
- Your lecturer can give you the link to the any part of the text that he/she wishes to emphasise
Retrieving your e-textbook
Follow the instructions below to access your e-book.
- 1st year students have available the textbook:
P.Atkins Atkins Physical Chemistry and the accompanying solutions manual
A key text on the course CE1-09 Properties of Matter 2014-2015 - 2nd year students should already have R.M. Felder Elementary Principles of Process Analysis
A key text on the course CE 1- 02 Process Analysis 2013 - 2014
Use the browser Firefox to log in to Blackboard with your College username and password.
Note: None of the other browsers will let you access your book on Blackboard.
Under My Courses:
- 1st years select CE 1-09 Properties of Matter
- 2nd years select CE1-02 Process Analysis
Go to Course Content (left hand panel) and click on the book icon. Follow the on screen instructions. Accept the licence message you see.
You need to set up your account with VitalSource in order to download your book to multiple devices. You will find it simpler if you register using your College username and password. You will need these details whenever you use your book online at the VitalSource bookshelf.
Click on the relevant operating system name (Windows, Mac, etc.) to download your book for offline use.
You can now read your e-book:
- Online - at the VitalSource bookshelf (you can access your e-book from any internet enabled device)
- Via Blackboard - go to your course
- Offline on your laptop or PC - download the native application on up to 2 computers (Mac / PC available)
- On your mobile devices - up to 2 mobile devices (Apple, Android, Kindle Fire, NOT Kindle)
You can deregister devices later if you reach your machine limit and want to move the books to another device (use your online VitalSource account to do this).