The recommended access to your ebrary admin tools is via the “Admin” tab on your ebrary site. The Admin tab is only visible when you’re signed in with an admin-enabled username.
- If you haven’t already, create an individual ebrary account, see: http://support.ebrary.com/kb/to-create-ebrary-account/
- Once you’ve created an account, contact support@ebrary.com to assign admin-tab privileges. Be sure to include:
- The username of your individual ebrary account
- Your ebrary site name or the URL to your ebrary site
- Once you’ve received confirmation that admin privileges have been assigned:
- Go to your ebrary site at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/xxxxx
where xxxxx is your ebrary site name
- Sign in to your individual ebrary account in the usual way
- An “Admin” tab will appear to the right of your “Bookshelf” tab; the admin tools are under the Admin tab
Tools available (varies based on admin privileges you’ve been assigned)
- Order perpetual access titles
- Get your ebrary MARC records
- Run your ebrary usage reports
- Get your ebrary Holdings report
- Create and manage profiles for PDA, STL, or perpetual access
- Create and manage fund codes
- View your site’s order history
- Modify download settings
- Modify Turnaway (e.g., Extended Access) settings
The following are the admin-tab privileges we can assign to ebrary account usernames. If you don’t already have an ebrary account, you’ll need to create one. Note: each admin should use their own ebrary account, it is fine for multiple admins to have overlapping admin-tab privileges, and these admin privileges will only be available on your ebrary site.
- Order – Admin can place orders for perpetual access titles.
- Recommend – Admin can recommend titles to be purchased (but not place orders unless they also have Order privileges).
- Reports – Admin can access your site’s ebrary usage and holdings reports.
- MARC – Admin can access your site’s ebrary MARC records.
- Download – Admin can enable/disable download for single-user titles.
- DASH – Admin can upload PDFs as DASH documents. DASH also needs to be enabled for your ebrary site, and isn’t available for all sites.
- PDA – Admin has full control over setting up Purchase Driven Acquisition (PDA) profiles that will likely result in the purchase of perpetual-access titles. PDA paperwork and funds must be in place for PDA collections to be active; to check on this aspect, contact customer_service@proquest.com.
You can access some basic admin tools via the Partners site:
- Access:
- URL = http://partners.ebrary.com
- The username and password were assigned for your site when first set up; several admins from your site might share the same account
- Tools available:
- Order perpetual access titles (but not titles already on your site, or 3USER license)
- Get your ebrary MARC records
- Run your ebrary usage reports
- Get your ebrary Holdings report