Research Guides: E-books: Ebook Central

Ebook Central

This platform hosts the e-books in the Ebook Central (ProQuest) collection. Titles purchased on the Ebook Library (EBL), ebrary, and MyiLibrary platforms are now hosted here. E-books on this platform are available via purchase, DDA, and subscription. titles from multiple publishers are brought together on this commercially-operated platform.

Tutorial: How to Access the E-book

How to Access the E-book

Check User Access Model, Number of Pages Remaining for Copying or Printing, and Days Available as a Download
Read E-book in Browser
Download E-Book as PDF or EPUB (Adobe Digital Editions required.)
Download Chapter as PDF
Add E-book to Bookshelf
Copy Permalink to This Page
Copy or Export E-book Citation

Navigate to the Availability section at availability_section_label to check user access model, number of pages remaining for copying and printing, and days available as a download

Check User Access Model, Number of Pages Remaining for Copying and Printing, and Days Available as a Download

Read E-book in Browser

Download E-book as PDF or EPUB

Adobe Digital Editions required.

Download Chapter as PDF

Add E-book to Bookshelf

Copy Permalink to This Page

Copy or Export E-book Citation

Tutorial: How to Use the E-book

How to Use the E-book

Check Download and Copy Allowances
View Bookmarks, Highlights, and Notes in e-Book
Search E-book Text
Download E-book as PDF (Adobe Digital Editions required)
Download Pages as PDF
Copy Text
Print Pages of E-book
Add E-book to Bookshelf
Copy Permalink to Page in E-book
Copy or Export E-book Citation
Highlight Text
Add Note
Bookmark Page

Check Download and Copy Allowances

View Bookmarks, Highlights, and Notes in E-book

Search E-book Text

Download E-book as PDF

Adobe Digital Editions required

Download Pages as PDF

Copy Text

Print Pages of E-book

Add E-book to Bookshelf

Copy Permalink to Page in E-book

Copy or Export E-book Citation

Highlight Text

Add Note

Bookmark Page

Benefits of a Personal Account

Save e-books to the bookshelf.
Create folders to organize resources saved to the bookshelf.
Create bookmarks, highlights, and notes.

Usage Limits

Titles can have one user at a time, three users at a time, unlimited users, or non-linear usage (see “e-Book Terms” for details). The “Availability” section of the e-book access page (see above) contains the user access model. The last field in the advanced search can find books with “more than one” or “unlimited” users.

Titles can be downloaded for up to 21 days at a time. The “Availability” section of the e-book access page (see above) provides the length of the download period.

DRM-free e-books are available; these will display the message "There are no copy, print, or download restrictions on this title." in place of the copy and download restrictions.

For help, check out Ebook Central's FAQ pages and LibGuide. ProQuest also offers a dashboard with the current operational status of all ProQuest sites.