EPUB view

EPUB is the default view for most of the ProQuest e-books. This means the e-book has been formatted to read online in the EPUB reader for ProQuest.

• When you click on a chapter to read, it will take you to the EPUB view.
• Use the toolbar at the bottom of the page to print, download a chapter as a PDF and
• The e-book will appear in sections you navigate with the left & right arrows in the bottom right corner. 

PDF view

To view the ProQuest e-book as a PDF in your browser, click on the book icon at the top right of the page and then the Switch to PDF button. 

This will open the e-book as PDF in your browser.

• Use the icons at the top of the page to print, download the chapter as PDF, link to the chapter, turn the pages and more. 
• The pages will appear one at a time by scrolling up and down

Look under the Availability section of the e-book to see the limits of how many pages you can print, copy and download each day.

• Remember that print/save allowances in ProQuest refresh every 24 hours.
• You can also try clearing your cache and opening/closing the browser to reset it. 

If the e-book you are using has a limited number of copies available and all the copies are being read online by other users or are currently downloaded, you will see an In Use message. 

When a user does one of the following, the book's status will change to Available , and you can access the e-book. 

• Signs out of their Ebook Central account
• Returns to searching or opens a different book (in the same tab)
• Closes the tab or the browser they were reading in
• Is idle with the book for 30 minutes (that is, no page turns, copies, prints, etc. for 30 minutes)
• Reaches the end of their download period for full document downloads

For more information, read the Ebook Central: Access to limited-user books help page from Proquest. 

This option is only available for unlimited-access e-books. If you are using a limited-user e-book, this option will be grayed out, making it unavailable. 

Step 1 - Getting Started

Click on the Download Book button under the book cover of the e-book. 

• If you haven't already logged in, it will prompt you to sign in with your Davenport University username and password. 
  • It will also ask you to select what device you are using.
  • And if it's your own computer or a public computer.

Step 2  - Download Setup

You will need to download Adobe Digital Editions to read the e-book offline. 

• Click on Get Adobe Digital Editions button to download.
• If you have already downloaded Adobe Digital Editions, click on Done with this step. 

After you download Adobe Digital Editions

• Select the number of days you want to check out the e-book.
• Select the download format: PDF or EPUB.
• It will download it into the Adobe Digital Reader on your computer.

Remember that you can only read this file through Adobe Digital Editions.

Step 3 - Reading E-book

• Click on the e-book file ending with .ascm  in the download folder on your computer.  The e-book will open in Adobe Digital Editions Reader on your computer.
• You can also click on the e-book located in  Bookshelves- All Items in the Adobe Digital Reader on your computer. 

If you selected PDF format:

• The pages will appear one at a time by scrolling up and down.

If you selected EPUB format:

• The e-book will appear in sections you navigate with the left & right arrows. 

The e-book will expire from your Adobe Digital Editions reader when the time is up. You can check it out again if you need more time. 

EPUB VIEW: After you click on the link to get into a chapter, click on the printer icon at the bottom of the page, to print to PDF, which allows you to save the chapter as a PDF to your computer. 

Or click on the Download PDF link next to the chapter name from the Table of Contents page. 

PDF VIEW: You can also download the e-book as a PDF in your browser by clicking on the book icon at the top right and then click on the Switch to PDF button.
Click on the PDF icon to download the pages as PDF to save to your computer. 

There are limits placed on library e-books as to how many pages you can download at one time.
If the chapter you are trying to download exceeds that amount,

• Click on the show sub-sections link to download chapter sections instead. 
• You will see a link that says What can I do? if this happens. 

EPUB view: To link to a specific chapter, go to the chapter you want to link to and click on the URL from your browser, at the top of the page. 

PDF view: To link to a specific chapter click on the link icon at the top of the page.

What do I do when ProQuest E-book Central says  Your session has expired, please refresh this page, search again or sign-in again..

• This means that E-book Central has detected the existence of a previous session that has timed out.

With ProQuest e-books, they will time out after 30 minutes of inactivity. So when you try to return to the e-book, it will give you that message. Usually, refreshing the page will bring it back.

If that doesn't work, try the following:

• Click on the Sign Out button in the upper right corner of the e-book and then use the URL you used to access the e-book to sign back in.

The Research Assistant is automatically enabled on eligible books and can be found on the left side of the screen for PDFs, or on the right side of the screen for EPUBs.

You’ll first see an overview of the book, which is not AI Generated.  This overview is the same description you’d see on the book details page.

When moving through the book, you will see the chapter names on the Research Assistant pane.

• To generate the Key Takeaway for the selected chapter, click on Show Key Takeaway from this chapter.
  To generate concepts discussed in the chapter, click on Show concepts discussed this chapter.

To learn more, check out the the ProQuest Research Assistant libguide.