Safari is a database of 1,673 computer science and computer applications full text book published by outstanding publishers. Most titles are recent, dating from the last thee years. Subjects covered include but are not limited to computer networking, operating systems, databases, programming, software engineering, software "how to" books, Web design, Java, XML and more. All books are electronic and include the complete text including introductions, tables of contents and the text of CD-Roms.

To use Safari Tech Books:
Go to the Libraries' Web Page www.montgomerycollege.edu/library/
Look for the Articles, Databases and More block in the center of the screen
Click on either the "on campus" or the "from home or work" link as appropriate.
Once on the "Full Text Indexes and Databases" screen, scroll down to the Computer Science section
Click on the Safari e-books link.

Look on the yellow bar on the left side of the screen.
Find the black"Browse by Category" band.
Select a category of interest and click on it.
Clicking will open the category into subtopics. (You may have to scroll down to see the subcategories.)
Click on a subtopic and Safari will show you a list of books.
Each book will have a link to the table of contents, click on that link, scroll down and select a chapter to read, or look to the right of the screen, click on the "Start Reading" link and read the book cover to cover.

Scroll down the yellow bar on the left of the screen
Find the black "Find a Specific Book" bar.
Click on Author, Title, ISBN or Publisher as appropriate.
On the next screen, fill in the appropriate information.

Look for the search box at the top left of the screen.
Type a few keywords e.g. java beans, and click on GO.
Safari will display a list of books which contain your keywords, and a list of the most relevant sections of the books.

Code Fragment Search

Type in a few keywords that describe the code you want to find, or keywords from the code itself.
Click to check the Code Fragments Only Box.
Click on Go.
Safari actively encourages copying and pasting code into your own programs

Boolean Search

Safari supports the standard Boolean search conventions.
Boolean operators must be typed ALL IN CAPS.
Safari interprets as space between words as a Boolean AND.
The search perl bioinformatics is the same as perl AND bioinformatics.
Use AND to combine unlike terms.
Use OR to combine like terms, synonyms, alternative spellings etc. OR means either/or.
dreamweaver AND (editing OR modifying)
Use quotation marks to search more than one word as a phrase.
"do loop"
Use the wildcard symbol *, to find multiple endings of a word.
check* will find check, checks, checking, check-in, check-out etc.

Advanced Search

Click on the Advanced Search link located directly under the Search Box
Type keywords in the Find Results box.
Click on the appropriate radio button for the kind of search you need.

With all these words is a Boolean AND
With exactly these years is a phrase search, equivalent to using quotation marks.
With at least one of these words is a Boolean OR

You may also perform a Boolean search on the Advanced Search screen.

The Advanced Search screen lets you narrow and focus searches. Look at the yellow box to the right of the word "in." This box lets you limit your search to full text, code fragments, section title words or tips and how-tos. Limiting a search to section title words will retrieve fewer results, but will let you find sections of books on a particular topic.

Printing and E-Mailing Results

You may print sections of a book one at a time. A section may be as short as a paragraph or the equivalent of several printed pages. Safari does not permit the printing of entire books with one command.
Once in a section of a book, look for the Safari Print Icon at the top of the section. Click on it, and Safari will reformat the page for printing. Avoid using your browser's print key; you risk loosing content on the right of the screen.
E-mailing sends a link to the e-mailed section. You will need to log into Safari to view the section.

Logging Out

Important. Our contract with Safari only permits five simultaneous users. Out of consideration for others who want to use Safari, please log out when you are finished.

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