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)

• 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

View our search video on you tube

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

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 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

That should do it unless you get an error.  The most common error is choosing a username that’s already in use, just try a different username.

2. Click the “Sign In” link at the top right

3. If window says “Please sign in to your personal ebrary account”:

• Enter your username (not sure what it is?  email support@ebrary.com)
• Click the “Send me my password” link
• Your password will be emailed to the address on file within a few moments; if you don’t receive it, you may have entered an incorrect username

4. If does NOT say “Please sign in to your personal ebrary account”:

Your site uses a custom login – contact your librarian!

Librarians, end-users, faculty, staff, or anyone interested in learning more about ebrary products are welcome to attend any of the following live sessions:

• End-user covers how to get started with ebrary, including accessibility features upon request
• Download provides an overview on how to download ebrary content onto various devices
• Mobile & Facebook provides an overview of how to use ebrary’s iOS app for iPad, iPhone, & iPod touch and Android devices
• Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) & Short-Term Loans (STL), our programs that enable libraries to purchase and loan titles based on real usage (for librarians)
• DASH!™ (Data Sharing, Fast), a complimentary feature of Academic Complete, College Complete, Public Library Complete, and Government Complete (for librarians)
• Acquisitions & Administrative, an introduction to all administrative functions including ordering, PDA , Holdings and MARC records (for librarians)

Can’t wait for a live training? Take a look at these  recordings:

• ebrary Acquisitions & Administrative Training
• ebrary Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) and Short Term Loans (STL) Training

View Webinars by Language

To view training courses offered in languages other than English, click here and look for event titles with language information (e.g., Language: Spanish). Webinars are currently offered in French, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

Request Training

If you wish to request a specific session for your group, please contact our dedicated training team at training@proquest.com

Book – A document available on ebrary.  Interchangeably called book, document, or title.  Most ebrary titles are books, but some are journals, maps, or sections of books made available as a separate document by the publisher.

Channel – Also referred to as a site.  A hosted ebrary website that provides access to all the documents (subscription, perpetual access, or DASH) for a particular customer such as a school, company, university, or public library.

Collection – An aggregate of books sharing one more similar attributes.

DASH! - Stands for ‘Data Sharing Fast’.  It’s an ebrary product that empowers libraries to create, upload, and share their own PDF collections, right from their own computers.

DDA – Demand Driven Acquisition. It is YBP’s ebrary PDA.

eBOP - ebrary Ordering Platform.  An eBOP title one that has been purchased from ebrary as a perpetual access title.

Extended Access – Also referred to as Turnaway Prevention, allows an administrator to set rules for a sought-after, but in-use, single-user title to initiate a just-in-time loan, upgrade, or additional purchase – thereby extending availability on demand.

Loan - Also referred to as Short-Term Loan or STL.  A loan is an ebrary book that is made available on an ebrary site for 1 day or 1 week (depending on the library’s preferences) at a fraction of the book’s purchase price.

Multi-user – Multi-user titles can be accessed by an unlimited number of users at the same time.  All titles in subscription collections (for example, Academic Complete) are multi-user.  And purchased titles, if purchased as MUPO, are multi-user.

MUPO – Multi-user perpetual license.  A title purchased as MUPO can be accessed by an unlimited number of users at a time.  Perpetual access titles can be purchased as either single-user-only (SUPO), three-user (3USER), or multi-user (MUPO).  Not all documents are available for 3USER or MUPO purchase, and MUPO is not available to corporate, K/12, or public libraries.

PDA – Patron Driven Acquisition.  A purchasing model whereby a library provides a set of books to their patrons, without having to pre-purchase all of them.  If a book gets sufficient use, it is then “triggered” for purchase.

Perpetual Access – Purchased titles.  An ebrary site has access to perpetual access titles (i.e., titles they have purchased) as long as they have access to their ebrary site. Even if a publisher pulls a title from ebrary, if an ebrary site has purchased the title it will not be taken away.

Site – An ebrary site (also called a “channel”) is a hosted ebrary website that provides access to all the documents (subscription, perpetual access, or DASH) for a particular customer such as a school, company, university, or public library.

STL – Short-Term Loan.  A loan is an ebrary book that is made available on an ebrary site for 1 day or 1 week (depending on the library’s preferences) at a fraction of the book’s purchase price.

Subscription collection – A set of documents that are essentially leased to an ebrary site, typically on an annual basis.  The specific documents in subscription collections can change without prior notice, but the expectation is that we will add more than we remove.  The Admin NEWS tab announces changes as possible.  MARC record adds and deletes reflect all additions to and removals from your subscription collections.  If an ebrary site requires guaranteed access to a particular document (i.e., it is being assigned for a class), the library should purchase it because with subscription collections, there is no guarantee that the title won’t be removed.

SUPO – Single-user-only perpetual license.  A title purchased as SUPO can only be accessed by one user at a time.  Perpetual access titles can be purchased as either single-user-only (SUPO), three-user (3USER), or multi-user (MUPO).  Not all documents are available for 3USER or MUPO purchase, and MUPO is not available to corporate, K/12, or public libraries.

Title – Often used to mean an ebrary document; interchangeably called book, document, or title.  Most ebrary documents are actual books, but some are journals, maps, or sections of books made available as a separate document by the publisher.

Triggerable use – The amount and type of use required for a PDA or STL+PDA document to be triggered for purchase or loan.  See the knowledge base for the details of what constitutes triggerable use:  http://support.ebrary.com/english/1586

Turnaway - When a user tries to open an ebrary document but it is a single-user book (or the last copy of a 3USER book) that’s already in use.  The user is alerted to this and are asked if they would like to queue for it.

Turnaway Prevention – also referred to as Extended Access, allows an administrator to set rules for a sought-after, but in-use, single-user title to initiate a just-in-time loan, upgrade, or additional purchase – thereby extending availability on demand.

To create a saved search:

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

2. Create and run a new search as follows:

a. Click on “Advanced” next to the Simple Search window

b. Set up your desired search criteria

To search for titles in a subscription collection you don’t have, see the Advanced Search Instructions below

Admins, to search for new purchasable content, add a search line and set “Collection” to “All Purchasable”.  This will search ebrary titles available for purchase; results returned will point to preview-only copies

c. Click “Search” (you need to do this for the search to be save-able)

3. Find and save your search as follows:

a. Under the Search tab, then under the SEARCHES tab, look for the search you just ran and click “Save” for that search

b. This will bring up a new window in which you can set search name, email address, search frequency (setting frequency to 0 turns off alerts)

c. Click “Create”

To modify your saved search criteria or search frequency:

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

2. Under the Search tab, then under the SEARCHES tab, look for your saved search

3. Click on “Edit” for that search

4. Here you can change search name, email address, search frequency (setting frequency to 0 turns off alerts!!)

a. If you make changes here, click “Update” (takes you back to SEARCHES tab)

5. Or, to change the search criteria, click on “Edit Search Criteria”

a. Make any desired changes to your search criteria

b. Click “Search” (you need to do this for the search to be save-able)

c. Click “Update Search”

Advanced Search Instructions

You can search for titles in a subscription collection you don’t have; results returned will point to preview-only copies.

1. Go to the alltitles preview site at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles

2. Do an advanced search and include the collection to search (for example Academic Complete) and the criteria (for example Title includes opera)

3. Once you run that search, the URL at the top will include the search criteria. Select and copy the end part of the URL starting with “/search” – that is, starting right after the “/alltitles” part and all the way to the end of the URL.

For the example above, the URL will be (ignore line breaks shown):

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/search.action?
adv.x=1&fromSearch=fromSearch&f00=collection
&p00=col_cust_acad_complete&f01=title&p01=opera&search=Search

Copy this part (ignore line breaks shown):

/search.action?adv.x=1&fromSearch=fromSearch
&f00=collection&p00=col_cust_acad_complete
&f01=title&p01=opera&search=Search

4. In a separate tab or window, go to your usual ebrary site

5. Sign in to your personal ebrary account (you’ll need to do this)

6. Edit the URL at the top by pasting in the copied search string right after your ebrary site name, and press return

7. If you’ve copied and pasted the right section of the URL, you’ll be searching the preview-only collection from your site

• Download a chapter or page range as a PDF
• Download an entire book using Adobe Digital Editions
• Save (to your Bookshelf) links to ebrary books
• Make (and save in your Bookshelf) notes in ebrary books
• Make (and save in your Bookshelf) highlights in ebrary books
• Create folders (in your Bookshelf) to organize your links to ebrary books
• Share or email folders (in your bookshelf) that contain links to ebrary books

Once you have a personal ebrary account, you will have your own personal ebrary Bookshelf as well.

Note, preferences info (e.g., citation choice and language preference) are stored as “cookies” on the computer itself – so they follow the computer, not your personal ebrary account.  But your Bookshelf and things specific to your username (e.g., password, name, and email address) follow your personal ebrary account login.