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Mobile App: Device Requirements

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)

An overview – using ebrary for document exploration and research

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

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

Tracking user-turnaways from single-user 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.

Getting started… searching in ebrary

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

To determine what kind of access you have to a particular book

To determine whether you have subscription or perpetual (“purchased”) access to a book:

1. Go to your ebrary site as usual
2. Click the “Advanced” link at the top next to the Search field
3. Select from the drop-down menu “Collection“, then select from the drop-down menu to the right either your site’s subscription collection (such as “Academic Complete”) or “Purchased Titles”
4. Add another search line and search for the particular title

Important!  If a title is only available on your site in a subscription collection and you want to use it for a class or other purpose that requires the book won’t go away, it is recommended that your ebrary admins purchase the title as perpetual access.

“Limited-user Title” will display in toolbar for book purchased on your site as:

• One single-user license
• Multiple single-user licenses for the same book
• A 3USER license

“Unlimited-user Title” will display in toolbar for book available on your site as:

• In a subscription collection, and so is unlimited multi-user
• Was purchased as an unlimited multi-user license

“Preview Title” will display in the toolbar for a book that:

• Is not available on your ebrary site