How to find, view, download, save, and print electronic books using the Electronic Book Center.

1. Finding eBooks:
Using the EBC
An Online Tutorial
brought to you by
Pilgrim Library

2. Access the Electronic Book Center (EBC)
through the library’s website
Click on the eBook Full-text tab
in the Quick Search box.
Type in your keywords
and hit Search.

3. Search Results Page
Your page should look similar to
this after you’ve run a search.

4. Search Results Page
Here you’ll see your search term(s) and
the number of results from your search.
You can decide how you want the
results list to be organized.
You tell the search what results should be brought
to the top of the list. If you want the ones that
deal most closely with your search terms, sort by
relevance. If you want the newest books to be at
the top of the results list, sort by date.

5. Search Results Page
You can limit your search results by
subject or by date. This helps focus
your search and gives you less to
scroll through. Just click to rerun
your search with the new criteria.
For example, you can click on 2010 and it will take
your search term and only bring back the 205 results
that were published in that year.

6. Search Results Page
The actual
search results
are listed here.
Each is
numbered and
gives basic
publication
information.

7. Search Results Page
Everything in blue and underlined is a hyperlink
that will jump you somewhere else.
Clicking on the title will jump you
to the full-text online eBook

8. Search Results Page
Clicking on the subject terms
will run a new search for eBooks
about those terms

9. Search Results Page
The Matches section shows you
where your search terms where
found in the eBook. Think of it
as a little snippet preview. You
can also see how many times
your terms were found in the text.
For example, “happy” was found 267 times in
the book by Diener.
You can click on the match and it
will open up the eBook and jump
you to that particular section of
the text. The terms will be
highlighted to help you locate
them.

10. Search Results Page
Stay organized when you research!
Click on Add to create lists of eBooks that are much
easier to organize, view and email. You can see what
you’ve added by clicking Bookbag.
Once you’ve found a good resource, be sure to
click on Find more books like this. It’ll search
for similar items that are likely to also be useful.

11. Viewing eBooks
To view the actual text of an eBook, click on its title.
This should bring up a page with two columns that looks similar to the page below.

12. Viewing eBooks
The left part helps you navigate the book. Think of it
as your table of contents – you can click and jump to
later sections with ease. The actual text of your book
is located in the right part of the screen.

13. Viewing eBooks
Search the full text of your book here
If you want to link to this book directly,
use the persistent link. If you want to
print, be sure to click on print view.

14. Viewing eBooks
Skip from chapter to chapter with these arrows
Some books (like this one) allow you to
view each chapter as a PDF. Click on
PDF Full Text to view, download, save
or print the chapter as a PDF file.

15. Viewing eBooks
Scroll to down to read through the chapter
The gray line marks
a page division. Page
numbers are located
at the top of each
new page.

16. Remember!
If you are accessing off-campus, you must
authenticate through OhioLINK.
You must access the EBC through the library’s or OhioLINK’s website.
For help with this process, visit our Off-Campus Access LibGuide.

17. Congratulations!
You successfully finished the library tutorial
Finding eBooks: EBC
If you have any questions about this tutorial,
please get in touch with Pilgrim Library or
email adearmond@defiance.edu.

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