eBrary

The following information is primarily from the ebrary help site on the ebrary page especially the ebrarylibguide.

How ebrary Works

ebrary facilitates research and document exploration. Use the powerful search capabilities to gradually narrow your focus by specifying subjects, keywords, authors, publishers, publication years, or other information available for the documents.

At any time, you can explore the search results.

  • View the document's table of contents, and see a ranking based on the relevance of your search term(s) in each chapter.
  • Open the document in an ebrary reader to explore and read the document.
  • Search the document from aebrary reader for additional terms.
  • Copy text.
  • Print pages.
  • Save citations to RefWorks or EndNote.
  • If you sign in, you can highlight text, add notes, and organize information on your personal bookshelf into folders.

Personal ebrary Account

In order to use your personal ebrary account, follow the following steps:

1. Click on the "Sign-in" tab on the upper right of the ebrary homepage.

2. Provide username and password (Use your Dominican ID and password). Make sure you access ebrary from the library homepage via the databases link.

Using your personal ebrary account allows access to a Bookshelf. This Bookshelf provides the options to

  • save titles for future use
  • organize saved titles into folders arranged by subject
  • annotate within saved titles with notes and highlights
  • share annotated text with other ebrary users

There are no space limitations in the bookshelf feature and users may save as many titles as they choose, in effect, creating their own personal e-book library over time.

  • Click on the Bookshelf tab
  • You can create folders here to organize your e-books, email e-books to others, and share folders via URLs.

The first view after accessing eBrary from Dominican Library database page:

How to Navigate ebrary

You can use the tabs across the top of the ebrary window for navigation:

  • Info/Home 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 in the ebraryQuickView Reader for reading, printing, copying, and annotating.
  • Bookshelf contains documents you have annotated. You can organize the documents into folders.
  • My Settings: manage your citation choice for ebrary
  • Sign In Your personal ebrary account
  • Help Great videos, a libguide and other resources for using ebrary

After finding a book, click on the link. Viewing a book results: book availability for online reading, chapter download, your settings, and help. Ebrary has great videos on using the database.

Using the vertical toolbar on the left to find in book search results.

Ebrary Online Reader & Navigation Tips

1. Download

In the new Reader, downloading a book is an easy three step process. Downloads are supported on your desktop, laptop, tablet or phones (iOS and Android).

2. Chapter Download

Chapter downloads are clearly identified in the new Reader from the navigation tool bar and also on the new Reader Detail Page. You may download a chapter, a page range as well as an individual page in image pdf format.

3. Copy

There are two options to copy. To copy a page, select the copy icon in the navigation toolbar. To copy text within a page, select your text. A pop-up menu appears and you select the copy icon on the far left.

4. Search Within Book

In the search within book box, type your search term, making sure to put phrases in quotes. Search results are displayed showing frequency bars next to each chapter. Click on the triangle to the left of the chapter for counts of results per page and contextual snippets of text. Click on the snippet to display the page in the book with the highlighted search terms.

5. Print

In the new online Reader use Print to PDF to create a PDF that can be printed (or saved). You may choose Current Page, Page Range, or Current Chapter. You choose which of the five citation styles will be appended to the PDF: APA, Chicago/Turabian - Notes - Bibliography, Chicago/Turabian - Author - Date, Harvard, or MLA.

6. Add to Bookshelf

Click on the bookshelf icon to save the current title to the ebrary bookshelf. If you have already added the title to your bookshelf, the icon will be greyed out.

7. Share Link

Sharing a link allows you to copy a URL to the current page in the book which you may share with authorized users.

8. Cite

Cite allows you to create a citation choosing from five styles. If you have a preferred citation style you may set that preference in Settings.

9. Highlight

There are two ways to highlight text. Select text on a page and choose the yellow, blue or pink option from the pop-up menu. If you select the icon from the toolbar instead, you may select and highlight text in yellow. Highlights are saved in the bookshelf.

10. Notes

There are two ways to take notes. Select text on a page and choose the note option from the pop-up menu (far right option). The note icon is placed adjacent left to the text. If you select the note icon in the toolbar, you create a note for the page and the note icon is placed in the upper left of the page, independent of text. All notes are saved in the bookshelf, and viewable in the Annotations side panel.

11. Bookmark

Click the bookmark icon in the toolbar or the bookmark icon in the upper right of the page to bookmark a page. Bookmarks are saved in the bookshelf, and viewable in the Annotations side panel.

12. Zoom Options

Zoom options include zoom in (+), zoom out (-), and fit to width, or fit to page (under Zoom options).

13. Go To Page

Click on top of the page number and enter your desired page to navigate to a specific page in a book.

14. Previous/Next

The Previous/Next function allows you to move backward or forward through a book one page at a time.

15. Help

Just click the ?to view frequently asked questions and their answers.

16. Settings

Here you can reset your password and choose a default citation style.

Search term results and highlighted terms within the book—searching made easy.

Making notes, highlighting key items and annotating. Then bookmarking your work. Notice the star on the left side toolbar.