Bookshelf (with Notes and Highlights)

Introduction - About Your Personal Bookshelf
Creating your Personal AccountBookshelf - How to establish an ebrary accountbookshelf
Setting up your Primis account. - How to establish and maintain a Primis account.
Adding a book to your Bookshelf - How to add a book to your Personal Bookshelf for later use.
Highlighting Text - Adding yellow, blue and pink highlights to books of interest.
Adding Your Own Notes - How to take and save notes along side pages for later use.
Managing your Bookshelf - Changing your user information, removing books and more.

Introduction

ebrary's Bookshelf feature enables you to automatically create a dynamic archive of Bookmarks, Highlights, and Notes as you conduct your research.

Your Personal Bookshelf is password protected. Your Bookshelf is your own, and no one else will be able to see it unless you share your username and password. Items archived on your Bookshelf can be removed at any time. We suggest that you set up a Personal Bookshelf before you get started using the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)™.

Note: If you are using ebrary from a library terminal, or a computer that is shared by others, it is important to sign out from your Personal Bookshelf when you are finished using the ebrary DCP.

Before using the Bookshelf features you should make sure you understand the fundamentals of the system by reading Getting Started.

Additional Resources

Launch Bookshelf demo (Flash)

Creating your Personal Bookshelf

ebrary's Personal Bookshelf feature allows you to automatically save and manage Notes, Highlights, and Bookmarks as you conduct research.

There are several advantages to creating your Personal Bookshelf:

Bookmark - Add books to your Personal Bookshelf and access them directly in the future
Highlight - Make and save highlights in books you are reading
Notes - Make and save your own notes in books you are reading

Note: creating a Personal Bookshelf is not required to view documents, copy or print pages.

To create your Personal Bookshelf:

Click the Sign In button (as shown on the right).
Click the Do you need to create a new bookshelf? link
Complete the form.

For more information about your Personal Bookshelf, please see Personal Bookshelf.

Additional Resources:

Launch Bookshelf demo (Flash)

Creating your Personal Account

Creating an Account is not needed to view documents, but there are several advantages to creating your Personal Account:

Creating an Account is required to view documents. In addition, there are several other advantages to creating your Personal Account:

Print Pages - Print pages from books with automatic bibliographical citations (for a small fee, subtracted from your Account.)
Copy Pages - Copy pages or paragraphs from books with automatic bibliographical citations (for a small fee, subtracted from your Account.)
Bookshelf - Annotate books with Notes and Highlights, saving them on your Personal Bookshelf
Highlights - Highlight text in multiple colors and automatically save them on your Personal Bookshelf
Notes - Take notes along side a page your are reading and automatically store on your Personal Bookshelf

To create your Personal Account:

Click the Sign In button (as shown on the right).
Click the Do you need to create a new ebrary account? link
Complete the form, including name, address starting balance and credit card information.

Setting up your Primis account

Go to the Primis ebook site and click the Register button. If you already have a Primis account you can go to the Primis ebook site and Login.

Additional Resources:

Primis FAQ / Help

Adding a book to your Bookshelf

To add a book to your Bookshelf, either:

Select Add to Bookshelf on the InfoTools menu, or
Click the Add/Edit Bookmark button on the ebrary Reader Toolbar

A link to your document will automatically be stored on your Personal Bookshelf, sorted alphabetically by title.

To add a book and include a note, type the note in the lower part of the Notes panel.

Note: You will need to sign into your AccountBookshelf in order to create and save Bookmarks.

Additional Resources

Launch Bookshelf demo (Flash)
Launch Notes demo (Flash)

Highlighting Text

With ebrary you can highlight text within a book as you conduct research. A link to that text is automatically saved to your Personal Bookshelf.

Note: Highlights are only available and visible when you have signed in. If you try to highlight text while you are not signed in, you will be prompted to sign in using your ebrary username and password.

You may enter highlighting mode by using either Highlight menu option on the InfoTools menu, or the Highlight button (and drop-down menu) on the InfoTools tool bar.

To enter highlight mode, click the Highlight button on the ebrary Reader Toolbar. The Highlight button becomes depressed, and the cursor changes from an I-beam to a highlighter pen. To change the color you're using, choose another color from the Highlight menu.

To leave highlight mode and return to normal "text select" mode, click the Highlight button again so that it is no longer pressed down. Alternately, you can also go to the Highlight Menu and turn off Toggle Highlighting.

To remove a highlight, select Unhighlight from the Highlight menu. The cursor will turn into a clear highlighter with an "X" through it. Then, simply drag the cursor through the highlights you wish to remove.

Additional Resources

Launch Bookshelf demo (Flash)

Adding Your Own Notes

With ebrary, you can create Notes alongside a page in a document and save them to your Personal Bookshelf for future reference. To create a Note, click on the Notes tab, then enter your Notes in the dialog box below. You may also use the Add/Edit Bookmark button on the ebrary Reader Toolbar to add Notes to your document.

Use the Delete button to erase your Note, or the Revert button to undo your most recent edit.

Notes are automatically saved on your Personal Bookshelf. Notes made in a given document will also appear in the Notes tab when viewing that document.

Notes are only available and visible when you have signed in. If you try to create a Note while you are not signed in, you will be prompted to sign in using your ebrary username and password.

Additional Resources

Launch Notes demo (Flash)

Managing your Bookshelf

ebrary provides a number of ways for you to easily and efficiently manage your Personal Bookshelf.

Update Your Information - Click on this link to change your user name or email address.

Change Password - Click on this link to change your password.

Remove a Book - If you no longer want a book on your Personal Bookshelf, simply:

Sign in, if you're not signed in already.
Click the AccountBookshelf tab.
Click View your Bookshelf.
Once your Bookshelf displays, check the books to remove from your Bookshelf and click the Remove Checked titles from bookshelf button.

Remove a Note - To remove a Note, click on the Note in your Bookshelf to navigate to that Note within the book. Click the Notes tab (in the Contents panel), then click the Delete button to remove the Note for that page.

Remove a Highlight - To remove a Highlight, click on the Highlight link in your Bookshelf. This will display that page of the book. Then remove the highlight using the Unhighlight tool, by selecting the Unhighlight option from the Highlight menu. The cursor will turn into a clear highlighter with an "X" through it. Drag the cursor through the highlight to remove it.