ebrary Knowledge Base

Mobile App: Sign In

INITIAL SETUP VIA BROWSER:

1. Go to your ebrary site and sign in to your personal ebrary account as usual

• You’ll need to do this at least once every 90-days to validate use on the mobile app

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”

ON YOUR iOS MOBILE DEVICE:

• First time use, install the ebrary app using the “App Store” icon
  Once installed, click/tap to open the ebrary app

• First time signing in to the app, prompted for your Adobe account info
• You’ll then be prompted for your personal ebrary account username and password.

If your ebrary site uses a standard ebrary sign-in,  you have two choices

1) Use the username and password you usually sign in with
2) Or, use the Facebook Sign-in feature (see below)

If your ebrary site uses a custom sign-in, such as a barcode or signing in via your school’s proxy server, Athens, Shibboleth, Moodle, etc:

You need to use the Facebook Sign-in feature (see below)

Facebook Sign-in option:

First, link your ebrary account to your Facebook account (a one-time setup):

1. Go to your ebrary site using a browser
2. Sign in to your ebrary account as usual
3. Click “My Settings” link at top-right of ebrary screen
4. Under “Link your account to Facebook“, click “Log In“
5. On Facebook log-in screen, enter your Facebook credentials, click “Log In“
6. (Don’t have a Facebook account? Click “Sign up for Facebook” at lower left)

You can then sign in on the mobile 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 users’ Facebook authentication.



Mobile app offers streamlined interface and access

With ebrary’s mobile app (currently only available on iOS devices), patrons can:

• Use the app’s streamlined interface to
  • Online, search for and read documents on their ebrary site
  • Online, seamlessly download documents from their ebrary site directly to the device
  • Offline, read previously downloaded ebrary documents
  • Offline, read non-ebrary PDF documents
• One thing you cannot do on the app is access your bookshelf links & notes

Note, to download an ebrary document, it must be a downloadable document
(not all are), and the download feature must be enabled on the ebrary site

Mobile App: Getting Started

Prior to using ebrary’s Mobile App on your iOS device, two things you need to do:

1. Go to your ebrary site from a browser and sign in to your personal ebrary account as usual.

• You’ll need to do this at least once every 90-days to validate use on the mobile app

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”

Once you have completed these two steps on a browser, then you can go to the mobile app and sign in.  Click to see instructions for signing in to the mobile app:

http://support.ebrary.com/english/1281

Mobile App: Device Requirements

ebrary’s mobile app runs on the following Apple iOS devices running version 4.3 or higher

• iPhone® 3GS, iPhone® 4 or iPhone® 4S
• iPod Touch®
• iPad® 1 or 2

How long can I keep a downloaded e-book?

An ebrary document downloaded as an e-book in Adobe Digital Editions or on your iOS device is only available to you on a temporary basis.

Multi-user document = 14 days

If your ebrary site has multi-user access to an ebrary document, your downloaded e-book of that document will be accessible for 14 days.  Note, all ebrary documents in subscription collections on your site are multi-user.

Single-user-only document = 7 days (if at all)

If your ebrary site has single-user-only access to an ebrary doucment, you might not be able to download it as an e-book (it depends on your administrator’s settings).  If you can download it as an e-book, it will be accessible for 7 days.  While you have it downloaded as an e-book, other users on your ebrary site cannot access the document – not even for online viewing – so consider returning it as soon as you’re done with it.

After the designated access time (14 or 7 days), the .pdf file will remain on your computer or device, but it will become unreadable (think Mission Impossible’s self destruct timer ticking away).  Once it times out, you might want to delete the (unreadable) file to avoid confusion.

Returning a downloaded e-book
You don’t need to return an ebrary downloaded e-book.  But since you can only have ten ebrary documents downloaded as e-books at a time, you might want to return an e-book early so you can download others.  And returning a single-user-only downloaded e-book will make it once again available to others on your ebrary site.  Early returns of downloaded e-books are done through Adobe Digital Editions, or an app (such as BlueFire) on your device.  Returns may take up to an hour to be recognized on your ebrary site.

Note, creating an image PDF of a chapter or page range gives permanent access.

What is an Adobe ID? Do I need one?

You need an Adobe ID to:

• Download e-books from ebrary
• Use ebrary’s Mobile App

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”