eBrary Frequently Asked Questions
Ebrary is a collection of thousands of online full-text books in a wide range of subject areas. You can browse ebooks by subject, search by keywords across the collection, and bookmark, highlight, and take notes with a free personal account.
General
How do I limit my search in the library catalog to ebrary ebooks?
Can more than one person read an ebook at a time? If not, how can I tell?
Who can access an ebook?
Do I need to create an ebrary account?
Printing
Are there any printing restrictions?
What happens when I create a pdf of a chapter or range of pages?
I am getting extra/blank pages when I print. What can I do?
Ebrary prints a different page than the one I selected. What’s going on?
Downloading
Can ebooks be downloaded to my computer?
How do I download an ebook?
What can I do with my downloaded ebook?
How long can I keep a downloaded book?
What happens after 7 or 14 days? Do I have to do something?
I am finished with an ebook. How do I check an ebook back in?
Is there a limit to how many ebooks I can download?
Can other students and faculty view my downloaded ebook?
Can I transfer my download document to another device?
How do I download to an iPad?
I wasn’t able to download an ebook. Why not?
System Requirements
What are the software requirements to view ebooks?
How do I install Digital Editions?
What other devices are supported by ebrary?
General
How do I limit my search in the library catalog to ebrary ebooks?
On the library main page, type “ebrary” into the search box for CatalogPlus.
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Can more than one person read an ebook at a time? If not, how can I tell?
Most documents can be viewed by any number of people simultaneously.
However some ebrary ebooks are only accessible by one person at a time or “single-user”.
You can tell if an ebook is single-user by viewing the ebook using the QuickView tab.
If a button labeled “Release This Title” near the blue “ebrary reader” button is displayed,
the title is viewable by only one person at a time.
If you try to view a “single-user” ebook and
it is in use, a pop-up message appears, enabling you to put yourself on a waiting list for the ebook.
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Who can access an ebook?
Any faculty, student, or staff from the University of Notre Dame may view an ebrary ebook. Guests and visitors who are physically visiting the Libraries are also able to access ebrary ebooks.
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Do I need to create an ebrary account?
No, you do not need to create an ebrary account. You must have an ebrary account to:
- Make bookmarks and page notes for any available book.
- Highlight text in any available book.
- Quickly and easily access all books you have bookmarked, notated, or highlighted.
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Printing
Are there any printing restrictions?
Yes, there are limitations on the number of pages you may print and copy. You can print 40 pages at one time, with a limit of 60 pages per session.
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What happens when I create a pdf of a chapter or range of pages?
You will have permanent access to any PDF that you create of a chapter or page range
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I am getting extra/blank pages when I print. What can I do?
Try another browser. Ebrary highly suggests using the Safari browser for printing, if you are using a Macintosh. On a pc or machintosh, there are some known issues when printing with Firefox that result in extra pages printing.
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Ebrary prints a different page than the one I selected. What’s going on?
QuickView displays two types of page numbers on the right side of the screen, above the table of contents area. The page number in the little box corresponds to the number printed on the physical page. The numbers in parentheses next to the box are the consecutive page numbers – the ones to use for printing.
When you view a page in QuickView and then select print (under InfoTools), you will see the consecutive page number of that page in the “Pages from …” box. So, one easy way to figure out the page range to use for printing is to go to the first page you want to print, select print and see what that page’s consecutive page number is. Then go to the last page you want to print and do the same. Then fill in the printing page range with those numbers.
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Downloading
Can ebooks be downloaded to my computer?
Yes, unless it is a “single user” ebook. Entire copies of single-user-only titles are not available for download. Individual chapters and page ranges are available via printing to a pdf file.
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How do I download an ebook?
You must first create an ebrary account. Once you have an ebrary account, you can down-load either up to 60 pages of a book into a permanent PDF file or the contents of an entire ebook. An additional piece of software is needed to download an entire ebook, Adobe Digital Editions. This software is available for free online.
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What can I do with my downloaded ebook?
You are able to:
- Read and annotate the ebook offline
- Transfer the ebook to any supported device
- Check out and return downloaded ebooks
- Organize your library of downloaded ebooks
- Transfer downloaded documents to other devices, for example an iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader, or others (but not a Kindle)
- Navigate your library of downloaded ebooks
- Search text within a downloaded ebook
- Create bookmarks
How long can I keep a downloaded book?
Access periods are for either 7 or 14 days. You can return an ebook early.
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What happens after 7 or 14 days? Do I have to do something?
After the designated access time (14 or 7 days), the PDF file will remain on your computer or device, but it becomes unreadable. It is recommended that you delete the (unreadable) file.
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I am finished with an ebook. How do I check an ebook back in?
You don’t need to return an ebook that you downloaded. But since you can only have ten ebrary
documents downloaded as e-books at a time, you might want to return an ebook early so you can download
others. Early returns of downloaded ebooks are done through Adobe Digital Editions,
or an application (such as BlueFire) on your device. Returns may take up from
10 minutes to an hour to be recognized on Notre Dame’s
ebrary site.
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If the ebook is single user, use the “Release This Title” button that displays when using the QuickView mode.
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Is there a limit to how many ebooks I can download?
You can have up to 10 ebooks at a time.
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Can other students and faculty view my downloaded ebook?
Yes.
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Can I transfer my download document to another device?
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How do I download to an iPad?
Instructions for downloading ebooks to an iPad are available. [ more...]
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I wasn’t able to download an ebook. Why not?
There are typically two reasons why an ebook cannot be downloaded. Single-user ebooks are not downloadeable at Notre Dame. In addition, some publishers do not allow downloads. Currently some of these publishers include University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, and Now Publishers.
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System Requirements
What are the software requirements to view ebooks?
Ebrary works with Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox (see note on printing in Firefox). Ebrary requires that your browser is JavaScript enabled, cookies enabled, and popups not blocked.
To download an entire ebook Adobe Digital Editions is needed to download entire ebooks. Adobe Digital Editions is available on both macintosh and pcs. Digital Editions is not supported on Linux.
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How do I install Digital Editions?
To install Digital Editions refer to the ebrary website. Once you download Digital Editions, you will be asked whether you wish to create an Adobe ID or continue the installation without creating an Adobe ID.
What other devices are supported by ebrary?
Users are able to download ebrary content to other devices besides computers, for example the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and Sony Reader. For a complete list of currently- supported devices,
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