Technical Services: E-Book Central (ebrary)

MUL's ebrary content (as well as OhioLINK's ebrary content) migrated to the E-Book Central platform on May 24, 2017.

Existing links to ebrary content will redirect automatically to the new site and the catalog and A-Z links will be updated over the summer.

A purchase is triggered by 10 minutes of use or 10 page turns (excluding TOC and Index), a print, or a copy.

The direct link to Miami's E-Book Central site is: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/muohio-ebooks

Source:  Miami

Lease or Own:  Own

Single or Multiple Users:  Single or Multiple* Users

Format:  HTML (proprietary) or PDF

Downloadable:  Single user: yes** (chapter/page range as PDF); Multiple user: yes** (chapter/page range as PDF OR entire book)

Printing Allowed:  yes (with publisher limits)

Platform/Software:  web browser; Adobe Reader

Accessibility Info: https://support.proquest.com/articledetail?id=kA140000000PDsICAW

VPAT: https://media2.proquest.com/documents/ebookcentral_vpat.pdf

Registration:  yes (requires all users on and off campus to sign in with MU unique ID and password)

Link to Support:  https://support.proquest.com/articledetail?id=kA140000000PDsICAW

How Cataloged:  Individual records in catalog

Usage Reports:  yes (see E-Book Central PDA report tab under the E-Resource Uage Stats tab)

Notes:  Ebrary e-books migrated to E-Book Central on May 24, 2017. Information about E-Book Central is maintained by ProQuest on their libguide.

EBook Central e-books are available for purchase via GOBI.

*Multiple user e-books labeled "3 simultaneous users" in catalog link.

**The following publishers do not allow full-document downloading of their publications from E-Book Central due to contract restrictions: Now Publishers, ProQuest Business Dissertations & Theses, Oxford University Press (select titles).

E-Book Central (formerly Ebrary) PDA began on 9/15/2010.  

Access to e-books is limited via IP address ranges to the Oxford campus.

E-Book Central E-Book Examples

If you're interested in looking at an E-Book Central e-book without having to worry about triggering a purchase, we have already purchased numerous firm orders.  The examples below are single-user only, so if you are unable to access, try again later.

Introduction to aircraft aeroelasticity and loads

OECD tourism trends and policies 2010

Information overload: a system for better managing everyday data

Adipose tissue in health and disease

Ethnography, linguistics, narrative inequality: toward an understanding of voice

Catalog Records

There are currently about 25,000 unpurchased E-Book Central e-book records in our catalog. The first batch was loaded into our catalog in September 2010. 

Please note: Publishers periodically pull titles from the E-Book Central catalog and those bib records are deleted on a monthly basis from our catalog.

To view all E-Book Central records in the Classic Catalog (author search on "ebrary"):

http://holmes.lib.muohio.edu/search/~?searchtype=a&searcharg=ebrary&SORT=D&searchscope=9

Linking to E-Book Central E-Books

• Ebrary URLs will re-direct to E-Book Central for at least five years from date of migration (May 2017).
• URLs to ebrary e-books follow the format:  http://site.ebrary.com/lib/muohio/Doc?id=
• URLs to E-Book Central e-books follow the format: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/muohio-ebooks/detail.action?docID=
• Each E-Book Central (ebrary) e-book has a unique Doc ID at the end of the URL.

No proxy prefix is required with these URLs--patrons will be pushed through the proxy server after they access an e-book title at E-Book Central.

Ebrary PDA Reports

Click on the link above to go to the ebrary tab where ebrary PDA usage and purchase reports are posted.

E-Book Central PDA Reports

Click on the link above to go to the EBook Central tab where EBC PDA usage and purchase reports are posted.

E-Book Central Documentation

Viewing E-Books

• You must have a Miami University unique ID and password to use E-Book Central e-books both on and off campus.
• E-books can be viewed on any device that has a web browser.

​Supported Devices, Operating Systems, Browsers

Accessibility Mode is supported on Laptops and Desktops only (not tablets or phones).

Laptops/Desktops - Supported OS and Browser combinations:

• Windows 7 -- IE** & Firefox** & Chrome*
• Windows 8 -- Chrome*
• Windows 8.1 -- IE11
• Windows 10 -- Edge
• OS X (El Capitan) 10.11 -- Safari** & Firefox** & Chrome*

*most recently released version only; **2 most recently released versions

Browser Width: Minimum suggested browser width = 1300

Note: E-Book Central does not work with Internet Explorer (IE) 8 or earlier, and does not support use on IE9. Microsoft is no longer supporting older versions of IE as of January 2016.

Mobile Devices - Supported Type, Device, OS, Browser combinations (latest browser versions only):

• Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Pro 10.1 -- Kit Kat & Lollipop -- Chrome
• Tablet: iPad Air -- iOS (latest) -- Safari & Chrome
• Tablet: Windows Surface Pro 2 -- Windows 8.1 Pro -- IE
• Mini: Nexus 7 -- Lollipop -- Chrome
• Mini: iPad mini -- iOS (latest) -- Safari
• Phone: Galaxy Nexus -- Kit Kat -- Chrome
• Phone  iPhone 6 -- iOS (latest) -- Safari & Chrome

Optimization on the mini and phone form factors are currently limited to:

• Detail Page
• Sign In
• Full Download

Not supported on mobile devices:

• Gestures
• Accessibility Mode

Copying E-Books

Publishers' restrictions prevent  e-books from being copied in full. You will only be able to copy or print a portion of the book per session, and only a limited number of pages can be printed at a time. Restrictions vary by publisher; specific information about restrictions are displayed on the home page of each e-book.

Downloading E-Books (complete e-book)

Most E-Book Central e-books can be downloaded in their entirety for a limited download period by clicking "Full Download". Full e-book downloads cannot be printed in their entirety.

Printing/Downloading Chapters or Page Ranges 

For many e-books, individual chapters or page ranges can also be downloaded in PDF format. Printing or downloading a chapter or page range do the same thing - both options create a PDF that does not expire. The PDF can then be printed anytime or read offline. If you're browsing without having signed in, you will be prompted to sign in before you can print or download.

To select by page range, click “Print to PDF”:

• If printing/downloading-to-PDF more than the current page, determine page numbers by viewing the page number displayed by the reader at the top right User-added image (in this example, 5 is the current page)
• If the page numbers seem off, see below.
• It's okay to use page numbers like iii, iv, xi, etc. as applicable.

To select by chapter, click “Chapter Download”:

• If the chapter is longer than the number of pages you have left to print/download, an error will be displayed with the number of pages left. You’ll need to instead print-to-PDF a page range within your limit.
• If the book has sections or parts, and the chapters are nested under those, the system may default to printing the entire section or part. In this case, the number of pages will likely exceed your limit, so you’ll need to enter the page range instead.