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E-Books guide

This is a guide to using SGUL's e-book collection

Add to Bookshelf

Select Add to Bookshelf near the bottom of this initial screen:

Ebook Central Bookshelf

Your bookshelf in ProQuest Ebook Central keeps track of your downloads, loans and saved books, and let you share them with others.

Download & Loans

Easy access to the books you’ve downloaded or have on loan, and a reminder of how many days are remaining.

Recently Viewed

Up to 10 titles that you’ve recently viewed are displayed here.

 

 

 

Annotated Books

Easy access to all of the books that you have bookmarked, highlighted  or added notes on. Access your highlights, notes and bookmarks  at the book level quickly and efficiently.

 

 

 

Save to Bookshelf

Organize your books into as many folders as you’d like. Your bookshelf comes with a Research folder and you  can add more folders as you need them.

Sort by Title, Contributor(s), Year Published, Publisher.

 

 

 

Course Reserve Titles 

If a Course Reserve title is added to Bookshelf, then Patron can easily identify the Digital Course Reserve titles as those titles will be labeled as Course Reserve in the Bookshelf list.

CR label in Bookshelf

 

Share Link to Folder
Share a link to your folder with others at your institution. 
lists or new title lists for patrons and faculty. The link could be used to create online course reading. 

Email Folder
Email folder contents to other Ebook Central users.

Export Folder
Export folder contents in.csv format.

Cite Folder
Create a citation from your choice of styles: APA, Chicago/
Turabian - Notes-Bibliography, Chicago/Turabian - Author-Date, Harvard, MLA, or Vancouver, or import into RefWorks/Flow or EndNote/Citavi. 

 

Export Notes, Share Link to Book, Copy To,  Remove
Export your notes and bookmarks; share a link to the book; copy a book to another folder; or remove the book from your bookshelf. Create a citation from your choice of styles: APA, Chicago/Turabian - Notes-Bibliography,  Chicago/Turabian - Author-Date, Harvard, MLA, or Vancouver. Select books and copy them to a new or existing folder or remove books from bookshelf.