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O'Reilly is the best resource for our VPCC IT, math, and engineering students to help with your learning goals. It includes ebooks, courses, videos, and audiobooks on all things programming, math, software development, and engineering! Use this guide to learn about how to access all of these features to support your learning success. 

You can always use the search box on the library home page to look for IT books, videos, and audiobooks from O'Reilly, but if you don't know what you are looking for exactly here are some options inside the database.

If you need a concept explained to you in a bit more depth, Answers from O'Reilly utilizes AI trained on their books and videos to answer your tech problems. You can click on relevant text to access the sources to learn more. 

1. On the book reader page you can highlight important sections of content and add your own notes to enhance your learning.

2.  To create a list of citations go to Highlights from Your O´Reilly by clicking on the Profile button . 
3. To the left, there is a list of the books where you have added highlights and notes. All Highlights and Notes appear under your Highlights.
4. You can export your highlights and notes to a spreadsheet, which includes book titles, chapter titles, date of highlight and links. It also shows your highlights and personal notes. 
5. Download the file. The file includes title and URL, to start creating the citation. O'Reilly does not include page numbers because the text is free flowing and will shift to fit the page size. O'Reilly should be cited as an online resource, and citation models have rules for online eBooks without page numbers.

Adapted for VPCC users from O’Reilly for Higher Education: Product Education (3 Sept. 2025) courtesy of ProQuest.