Electronic Collection Information for Librarians and Faculty

The SFU Library has a growing collection of non-journal electronic resources (ebooks, streaming video, music...etc) available to current students, faculty and staff.  Most of these electronic resources that are listed in the library catalogue can be linked to in course listings, library electronic reserves listings and course websites or WebCT.

Please use the Permanent Link to this Record URL provided by our catalogue at the bottom of the record which ensures SFU authentication both on and off-campus. 

There are a number of Electronic Resources in our collection that may not be suitable for course reserves or used as a textbook due to limits on the number of simultaneous users or the collection is continuously updated (content is regularly replaced with new titles). License information for journals and article indexes and databases can be viewed via the Electronic Journals listing and the Journal Articles & Databases links. 

Electronic Collections with Limits

SU = Simultaneous Users.

• E-books limited to 1 simultaneous user include the following note in the catalogue record: Licensed for 1 simultaneous user at Simon Fraser University.  For example: Developing sport excercise: researchers and coaches put theory into practice.
• Books 24x7 - 5 SUs - collection is also constantly in flux (titles are added and removed regularly)
• Classical Music Library - 12 SUs
• Counseling and Therapy in Video - 5 SUs
• Dance in Video - 3 SUs
• Ebrary -  titles have been withdrawn from time to time.
  • Blackwell Echo books on the ebrary platform are perpetual access but some are restricted to 1 SU.
  • The e-Duke books scholarly collection, the Canadian Electronic Library Collections  and the Informa Healthcare Medical Ebooks (24 titles) on the ebrary platform are stable. These collections have been purchased with perpetual access and DO NOT have any limits on simultaneous users. Withdrawals from these subsets only occur when the publisher discovers that they did not have the proper rights for electronic dissemination (very rare ocassions).
• Electronic Enlightenment - 1 SU
• Some MyiLibrary ebooks are limited to 1 simultaneous user.  A note stating "Licensed for 1 simultaneous user at Simon Fraser University" appears in the library catalogue record - below the Table of Contents.
• Netlibrary - 1 SU per ebook
• Primal Pictures Interactive Anatomy - 5 SUs
• Safari Tech Books - 8 SUs - collection is also constantly in flux (titles are added and removed regularly)
• Smithsonian Global Sound - 3 SUs

Not Licensed for Public Performance

Some streaming video resources are not licensed for public performance, in other words they cannot be viewed in a goup or classroom setting.

• Gnomon Workshop
• Lynda.com - 6 SUs

If you have questions about any of our electronic resources please contact Sandra Wong, Electronic Resources Librarian.