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There’s a new enhancement on ebrary — the ability to download page ranges and chapters (up to 60 pages per browser session) as an image pdf.  Things to note:

• The pdf will not expire
• Image pdf = no full text searching
• Known problem: the text of the pdfs is pixelated; ebrary engineers are aware of the issue and are working on it
• Downloading a page range/chapter will not make the title inaccessible for other users.  Once you finish downloading and close the ebook in your browser, another person will be able access the title.
• You must sign into your personal account on the ebrary site before you can download the pdfs
• pdfs are accessible on most devices
• Annotations to downloaded files won’t be stored on your ebrary bookshelf

Instructions for downloading have been added below and relevant portions of this post have been updated.

Important points about ebrary
-Full ebooks available online only; you can download chapters/page ranges up to 60 pages per browser session
-Only one user can access an ebook online at a time
-Remote access for museum staff/vols
-You can copy and print sections of the ebook
-Users can create their own ebrary account (free) to to highlight, annotate, save books to a bookshelf
-Don’t access via ebrary.com — use Watsonline or the links to Watson Library’s ebrary site

Watson Library’s ebrary site: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/watson/home.action
Proxy version: http://0-site.ebrary.com.library.metmuseum.org/lib/watson/home.action?force=1

Finding Watson Library’s ebrary titles:
-Search ebrary as a keyword in Watsonline to find all our titles, or
-In ebrary, click on the info tab at the top of the screen, then on the “browse all titles” link
-If you use the simple search at the top of the screen in ebrary, you will only be searching the books Watson Library owns (not every book available on ebrary.com)

Basic functionality in the ebrary quickview reader…

Copy
-Select text on a page using your cursor, then select copy from infotools dropdown menu, then paste into a Word doc, etc.
-An ebrary citation will automatically appear when you paste the text
-Can’t copy images

Print
-Select print from the infotools dropdown menu
-Options to print current page, page number range (up to 60 pages per browser session), current chapter (options may vary)
-When you are printing sections of the ebook, ignore any page number that might appear the “page” of the ebook itself. Use the page numbers that appear in the parentheses on the right hand part of the quickview reader.
-Images will print

Downloading

To create an image PDF of a chapter:
- Click on the Download button in the search results or QuickView. You may be prompted to sign in.
-Select the option to Create an image PDF of the chapter, then choose the name of the chapter from the drop-down menu.
-Click OK.  If the chapter is longer than the number of pages allowed to be printed on your site, you will get an error message

To create an image PDF of a page range:
- Click on the Download button in the search results or QuickView. You may be prompted to sign in.
-Select the option to Create an image PDF of page, then enter the starting and ending page numbers in the boxes.
-Click OK.

Note: ebrary has also rolled out the option to download full documents,  but this option is currently suppressed on our site because it requires the installation of Adobe Digital Editions software and would have access implications for our titles.  More info: http://support.ebrary.com/english/687)

Search within the ebook
-Enter search terms in the search box in the TOC portion of the page
-Search term results are ranked
-Click on magnifying glass next to the chapter title in the TOC section to go to the first search result in the chapter

Turn pages: use arrow buttons

Navigate through the document by search term results: use arrow buttons w/ a magnifying glass

Increase the size of the document: use the button with a piece of paper and a +/-

Hide the TOC window: click on the arrow in the upper right hand corner of the TOC window

Sign in first to use these additional features:

Add book to your bookshelf
-Click on “add to my bookshelf” button in the TOC window

Highlight text only
-Select text with your cursor
-Click on the highlight button in the toolbar (yellow rectangle)

Highlight text in different colors and/or annotate text:
-Select text with your cursor
-Click on key the triangle button next to the highlight key for all your options

View your notes in the ebook you are currently viewing
-Click on the notes tab in the TOC window

View all your notes, annotations, books saved to your bookshelf :
-Click on the bookshelf tab at the top of the screen
-You can also create folders on this page to organize your research.  You can email folders to other people (but they must have ebrary access to view the contents)

See also:
ebrary help: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/watson/help.action

ebrary demos, guides, etc: http://www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral.jsp#userguides