netLibrary Help

What is netLibrary?
The University of Adelaide  Library has many full text e-books that you may find when searching our Library catalogue.  NetLibrary is one of the many suppliers we use to make e-books available to  staff and students.

The University of Adelaide Library, together with a consortium of Australian university libraries have selected 1,894 titles with a further 3,407 internet free  netLibrary titles also available to subscribers.

Help
This is a basic guide to some of the key functions in netLibrary.  For more details go to the NetLibrary  range of online help.  The Help  button on the netLibrary home page has a comprehensive help guide but specific help "tips" pages are also available.

View Netlibrary books
In the Library catalogue, display the full record of the electronic resource,  then click on the link at the top of the record to the right of the  Link to e-resource.  You should now see this screen:-

In the Contents window (see below) click the box to the left of the chapter headings to expand or close the subheadings.  Click on the chapter title to open the text in the full text display window.

When viewing a book use the Search this eContent located underneath the contents frame to find specific information in the full text. The results offer an easy method for moving to each occurrence of a specific word throughout the book.

You can toggle between all function using the tab buttons in the left hand frame - Contents, Search, eContent Details, Notes and Dictionary.

Display options vary depending on how the item was digitised.  Titles added more recently offer a greater range of Acrobat Reader  tools.  The tool bar above the full text has the navigation buttons for moving to the next/previous page within a chapter or you can enter a page number and click on the GO button as illustrated below.

Right click in the full text area for quick access to a menu that lists some of the more frequently used features and functionality of the online reader (see image above). If you select/highlight a word from the text before right clicking you will see additional options in the right click menu:

• Search for in this eBook searches for the selected word within the full text of the eBook you are currently viewing.
• Look up in the Dictionary searches for the selected word within the dictionary.

Toggle between several open items You can toggle between several opened e-books.  1/ Repeat the Search and View clicks for several items. 2/ A list of Open Items is available in the Other drop down  menu. 3/  To toggle between several books click on the drop down arrow and select a title from your list then click on GO.

Create a netLibrary account / login
You do not need login to view a book but you should be aware that creating an account so you can login allows you to:-

•       Permanently save an e-book title to a personal list.
•      Add and save notes linked to specific pages of the e-book you are viewing.
•      Checkout an e-book to guarantee exclusive access for longer than 15 minutes.
•      Be notified when a checked–out item becomes available for you to View.

If you forget the password first click on Login and then click on the  Forgot your Username or Password?  Link.
Enter your email address and then your security information and netLibrary will email the password to you.
NOTE that the Library has no record of staff and student netLibrary passwords.
 

Check-out an e-book
Selecting this function will require that you Log in first.
You may Checkout a book for your exclusive use for a specific period depending on the owning library.  Click on the eContent details button and scroll down to click on the Checkout for 2 hours link  When the eContent has been checked out successfully the Check-out link toggles to become the Check-in link.
 

My List & Notes
Selecting this function will require that you Log in first.
NetLibrary allows you to save titles to a personal list which you can display with or without  Notes.

To add a book to your netLibrary personal list, when viewing a book,  first click on the eContent details button and scroll down to click on the Add to my list link.

To view you whole list with attached notes click on the Home page link then go to the tool bar across the top and click on My List and Notes to look at a list of titles and associated notes you have saved.

Adding Notes.  When viewing a book click on the Notes button.  The default name for the note is the page number.  Key in your notes and then click on the Add note button.      View Notes. Click on the Notes button and scroll down to see a list of all the notes you have added for a particular book.  You will need to login to see your notes.

Print / Save  /Email
These options are very limited.

There is no specific function to download or  Save  to a file.  See information above on My List & Notes where you can bookmark a specific page or chapter using the Notes function.

You are able to copy blocks of text by first highlighting the text then  holding  the CTRL+C  keys to copy and then click in a new window followed by holding  down  CTRL+V to paste.

You can Email the eContent Details (bibliographic details) to yourself or a friend.   At the bottom of the eContent Details screen click on Email This Information.

Print.  Only one page may be printed at a time.  Use the print button in the toolbar of the full text window rather than the browsers print button.

Images / photos do have Print/Save/Email buttons.  Click in the image/photo to see these options in the top left hand corner of the image.
 

Search Netlibrary
When you want to return to netLibrary to see your list of saved titles and associated notes you can perform a title search in the Library Catalogue for netLibrary.  The result will take you to the netLibrary home page which has a links to all functions in the top right hand corner as well as a search box.
   Use quotation marks for phrase searching.    The Search tips link has more detail on how to search in netlibrary.

When viewing a book use the Search this eContent located underneath the contents window to find specific information in the full text of a single ebook.  Alternatively click on the Search tab button to see both Search this eContent or Search new eContent. Search new eContent finds other books by keyword. The Keyword field searches for your terms in the title, author,  subject heading, publisher and ISBN fields.
 

CHECK-IN  remember to use the  Check-in button when you have finished with your book as this will  allow others to use the book immediately rather than waiting for your time to expire. Either from the eContent details or Home screens.
 

LOG-OUT when leaving netLibrary remember to log out. If your screen does not have a log out click on Home and then click on the Log out link in the top right hand corner of the screen.