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Accessing Ebooks: ProQuest Ebook Central

This guide provides a brief overview of how to find ebooks in Encore (the main search engine of the library) and details other popular platforms for ebooks.

Downloading, Printing, and Saving

Ebook Central contains academic books on science, arts, humanities and social sciences.

In Ebook Central you may print or download portions of e-books (single pages, a chapter, or section, up to a set number of pages). When printing, you can choose to send your pages to a printer or save as a PDF file. 


1. To access the ebook in Ebook Central select Available online; click to view.

 

2. This example is only available for online reading. If it were available for full download the icon would be full color, not "greyed" out. Also, if downloading to your desktop when available for Full Download, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (free software) installed.

ProQuest Ebook Central result page showing ebook availability options

 

3. Select the Print Icon:

print icon

 

4. Select what portion of the ebook you would like to print/save (remember you can only print a limited number of pages) and click Continue. Proceed to print as usual.

print sections

 

5. To save or open the selection as a pdf, click on the Chapter Download icon:

PDF download icon

 

6. You will see the same Print to PDF page from step 4. Click Continue, then click Open PDF:

print options for pdf

To save books to Ebook Central's bookshelf:

1. Create a free account (providing your name, email address, and creating a password).

creating an account

 

2. To save the book, click on the Bookshelf Icon:

arrows pointing to bookshelf icon

 

3. To access your books in bookshelf, click on the Bookshelf tab in the header:

arrows pointing to bookshelf header in menu bar

 

4. To remove books from your bookshelf, click the trash can icon to the right of the book titles.

bookshelf in proquest ebook central

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For further help, please see Ebook Central's help page.