Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to rules media vendors put on a user's ability to save, share, or otherwise copy items from their media collections. DRM may also include a limit on the number of users who can access the items simultaneously. Each media collection has different DRM rules, look to their help pages to find out.
Our Critics' Choice collection includes new, well reviewed, fiction and nonfiction titles. Our Children's Collection includes fiction and nonfiction books for Ages 0-18. Many are available in e-book or audiobook formats. You can access them through Libby to read or listen on your own device. (Critics' Choice print books are located in the lobby of the library, Children's are on the 2nd floor.)
eBooks are digital books, some of which you read on the Web, and some which are available for download either to your computer or to e-readers such as a Kindle. Most of these collections are subscribed to by CSULB, so you will need a CSULB ID to use them. Some are free to the public.
All CSULB ebooks can be found in OneSearch.
O’Reilly Sign in Instructions
Access the O’Reilly Learning site one of two ways:
Through the Database A-Z List
Through a OneSearch record for a specific title.
When prompted, sign-in through our authentication system using your BeachID and password.
After authenticating, you will be directed to the O’Reilly site where a pop-up box will appear. Select Institution not listed?, located below the drop-down menu.
The pop-up box will change to a new screen that prompts new users to enter their academic email and existing users to sign in.
New Users
Enter your CSULB email in the box that says Your academic email to register for a new account. O’Reilly will grant you access to their site and will send a follow up email to complete the registration process.
Existing users
Select the Already a user? option below the pop-up box to be directed to the sign in screen.
***Note: your O’Reilly account login details may not be the same as your Beach ID login/password. It depends on what you entered when originally creating the account.*** Try using the “Forgot Password” option if you already have an account, but are unable to sign in.
*Individual registration required*
Many of the free books online are public domain, including titles published before 1923 and U.S. government documents.