INITIAL SETUP VIA YOUR COMPUTER’S BROWSER:
1. Go to your ebrary site and sign in to your personal ebrary account as usual
2. Create an Adobe account if you don’t already have one:
- If you’ve done full-document downloads on ebrary, you already have one
- To create an Adobe account:
1) Go to https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/membership
2) Click “Create an account”
3) Fill in at least the starred fields…
4) Click “OK”
3. Optional: Link your ebrary account to your Facebook account (a one-time setup) so that you can sign in to ebrary’s mobile app using your Facebook login.
- From your computer’s browser, go to your ebrary site as usual
- Sign in to your personal ebrary account as usual (Dont have one? create one, see http://support.ebrary.com/kb/to-create-ebrary-account)
- Click “My Settings” link at top-right of ebrary screen
- Under “Link your account to Facebook“, click “Log In“
- On Facebook login page, enter your Facebook credentials, click “Log In”
(Don’t have a Facebook account? Click “Sign up for Facebook” at lower left)
- You can then go to your device and sign in on the ebrary app using the “Sign in with Facebook” button and your Facebook credentials
- Important note: The Facebook Sign-in feature does not access or post anything on Facebook accounts, it just takes advantage of user’s Facebook authentication.
4. Optional: Link your ebrary account to your email address and a passcode you create (a one-time setup) so that you can sign in to ebrary’s mobile app using your email address and passcode.
- From your computer’s browser, go to your ebrary site as usual
- Sign in to your personal ebrary account as usual (Dont have one? create one, see http://support.ebrary.com/kb/to-create-ebrary-account)
- Click “My Settings” link at top-right of ebrary screen
- Under “Connect your mobile devices to your ebrary account“, click “Mobile Setup“
- Enter your email address, and re-enter it for verification. Click “Save“
- ebrary will send an email to this address immediately (but it may take your mail server a few minutes to receive it)
- From your computer, open your email from a new tab in the SAME browser with your open ebrary session if possible.
- From your email, open the message from ebrary.
- In the email message, click “Set Passcode“
- ebrary will now attempt to take you back to your ebrary site to complete the process.
- If you get an “Unauthorized access” error, your ebrary site does not use a custom login, and we recommend you simply use your personal ebrary account username and password to sign in to your mobile device – you do not need to set up a passcode.
- As prompted, enter a passcode of your choosing, and re-enter it for verification. Click “Ok”
- Must be at least 4 characters long (alpha and/or numeric)
- If successful, a message will be displayed: “You can use this email ID and passcode pair with your ebrary mobile application”
- You can then go to your device and sign in on the ebrary app using the “email/passcode” button and your email and passcode credentials
ON YOUR MOBILE DEVICE (phone, tablet) running iOS (4.3 or higher) or Android (2.1 or higher):
- Initially you’ll need to install ebrary app using “App Store” or “Google Play” icon
Note, to access the Apple App Store, you’ll need an Apple account; to create one without a credit card see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534
- Once you’ve installed the ebrary app, tap to open it
- Sign in using one of the following 3 authentication options:
1) Enter your personal ebrary account username and password
- This option only works if your ebrary site does NOT use a custom login. Examples of a custom login are: signing in with just a barcode (e.g. student ID) or signing in via your institution’s proxy server, Athens, Shibboleth, etc.
- If signing in with your personal ebrary account username and password doesn’t work on the app, you’ll need to use one of the following login options instead.
2) Enter your Facebook username and password
- Initial set up from a browser required, see above
3) Enter your email address and pass code
-Initial set up from a browser required, see above
- Once signed in, you should see a ‘successful authentication’ message
- If it’s your first time signing in to the app, you will be prompted for your Adobe account info
There are two known issues with the ebrary mobile app, please see:
http://support.ebrary.com/kb/app-issues
ebrary’s mobile app requires internet connection.
The mobile app runs on Apple iOS as well as Android devices.
iOS devices must run iOS version 4.3 or higher:
- iPhone® 3GS, iPhone® 4, iPhone® 4S, iPhone® 5
- iPod Touch®
- iPad® 1 or 2 or 3
Android devices running one of the below operating systems:
- Éclair (version 2.1)
- Froyo (version 2.2)
- Gingerbread (version 2.3.x)
- Honeycomb (version 3.x)
ebrary overviews:
To search for titles on your ebrary site, you can:
- List all titles:
- Leave the simple search box empty
- Click the “Search” button
- Search Text and Key Fields for a word or words:
- Type them in the simple search box
- Click the “Search” button
- Search on specific criteria:
- Click “Advanced” next to the “Search” button
- To the right of “Search in” use the drop-down menu to set the field to search in and enter search terms
- Click the “Search” button
To open a particular book from the returned list, click on the book’s title or cover (this will open it in QuickView). You can then:
- Read the book online, using the arrows at the top to turn the pages
- View its “live” table of contents (to the right of the document itself)
- See a ranking based on the relevance of your search term(s) in each chapter
- Use the links to jump to particular sections or chapters in the book
- Search the document for particular terms (using the search box above the table of contents)
- Copy text – complete with citations (use “InfoTools”, “Copy”)
- Print pages – complete with citations (use “InfoTools”, “Print”)
- Save citations to RefWorks or EndNote
- Sign in to your personal ebrary account (by clicking the “Sign In” link at the top right), so that you can:
- Highlight text
- Add notes
- Save links to books in your personal bookshelf
- Download (if it is enabled on your site):
- Image PDFs of a page range or chapter
- Possibly even the entire book via Adobe Digital Editions
To navigate ebrary, use the tabs across the top of the ebrary window:
- Info provides information specific to your library system
- Search holds the latest search results and provides search tools and a search history
- QuickView displays the latest document that was open for reading, printing, copying, and annotating
- Bookshelf contains your saved links to documents, and any highlights or notes you’ve made in those books
Many of ebrary most popular books from some of our most prominent publishers are only available as single-user, whereby access is limited to one patron per copy of the book (either online or offline). If a second patron tries to access a book that’s already in use, they will see a preview-only copy of the book (see related article for details) and if they try to view more than a few pages they will be notified that the title is already in use.
To address this, ebrary allows all customers in the Academic Market the possibility of being notified of occurrences of turnaways, as well as auto-upgrading options.
Once an ebrary site is enabled for turnaway notification, the Admin librarian, who needs to sign in to ebrary with their Admin-enabled account, will have a TURNAWAYS tab in the Admin module, where they can specify the email contact to whom notifications should be sent.
These notifications occur once daily (frequency not yet adjustable) and include, for all titles that were turned away that day, a call to action with a link to view purchase options: outright purchase of an additional single-user copy, upgrade to a multiple-user license, or initiation of a short-term loan of an additional copy of the book.
If you would like to take advantage of this feature and/or are unsure whether your site is properly configured, contact ebrary Technical Support.
To search for books currently available on your ebrary site, go to your usual ebrary site then:
To list all titles:
- Leave the simple search box empty
- Click the “Search” button
To search Text and Key Fields for a word or multiple words:
- Type them in the simple search box
- Click the “Search” button
To search on specific criteria:
- Click “Advanced” next to the “Search” button
- To the right of “Search in” use the drop-down menu to set the field to search in, for example:
Title refers to the exact words in the title (ebrary searching is literal,
if the title is “Dogs” and you search for “Dog” it won’t be a match)
Doc ID is the unique ID number that ebrary assigns to each book (it is always shown as part of the URL to a specific ebrary book)
Publication year is the publishing date for the particular ebook version ebrary offers (often different from the original print publication date)
LC Call Number is the official Library of Congress number for a particular subject area. The following link gives the basics of LC Call number ranges: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco
- In the field to the right of “for“, fill in the specific data to search for
For advanced options, see:
http://support.ebrary.com/kb/searching-using-or-not-and/
http://support.ebrary.com/kb/proximity-search/
- To add additional search lines, click the “+” button
- To remove search lines, click the “-” button
- Once your search is set, click the “Search” button below the search criteria
To sort search results by Relevance, Title, Contributor (first author), Publisher, or Date, click the links at the right
To display Short, Medium, or Long view of data about the books in your search results, click the links at the right
Important note about ebrary’s current search engine:
Searches are exact searches on entire words – no partial-word searching:
- Searching for dog will not find dogs