ACCESSING E-BOOOKS on ATHENS

ACCESSING E-BOOOKS WITHIN ATHENS

• Type My Athens log in into a search engine then click on the link entitled ‘MyAthens: Login’ (usually the first search result)

• Type in your username and password: your username is your student number preceded by ‘ayr’ i.e. ayrA0001234. Your password will be ‘secret123’

• Passwords can be individualised by changing them in the ‘My Account’ tab on the Athens homepage.

• The first time you login you will have to select the tick box to accept terms.

What is Athens, Dawson Books and

Ebrary?

When you log into Athens you will see the links to our e-book sites, as shown below:

• Athens is the platform which allows free access to our e-book collections.

• Dawson Books and Ebrary are the two sites which host our e-book collections.

• Dawson Books is the site where we purchase and host e-books specifically bought for Ayrshire College.

• ebrary is the site which allows

free access to around 3000 additional e-books.

Accessing e-books in Dawson Books

Click on the Dawson Books link found in Athens. Click on the ‘Accept’ button at the bottom of the page the first time you use Dawson.

To see all of the available e-books bought for Ayrshire College, in Dawson Books click on the ‘eBook Catalogue’ tab in the top left hand corner of the screen.

You can also search by entering the title, author or a keyword into the search box.

Selecting the e-booksYou can scroll through the catalogue and select the e-books that are relevant to your course.

Click on the small black star beside the title of an ebook you want to save, this will ‘favourite’ the ebook and store it in the ‘My Bookshelf’ area for easy access, and in your personal account. This account can be accessed by clicking on the ‘My Account’ tab at the top of the page.

Once you have selected a particular e-book, click the ‘read online’ icon to access the book.

Navigating through an e-bookNavigating through the e-book can be done three ways:

1. Use the ‘page forward’ or ‘page backward’ arrow keys to turn each page individually.

2. Click on the relevant contents page on the left-hand side of the screen.

3. Use the scroll bar on the top of the page.

FunctionsYou can take notes for each book by clicking on the ‘Notes’ tab.

Clicking on the ‘search’ tab allows you to search the

e-book for a selected word or subject.

To copy text from the e-book just highlight the text as normal, right-click, and select copy.

To print pages, click on the ‘Print’ tab.

To download current page as PDF use top bar options.

FunctionsYou can take notes for each book by clicking on the ‘Notes’ tab.

Clicking on the ‘search’ tab allows you to search the

e-book for a selected word or subject.

To copy text from the e-book just highlight the text as normal, right-click, and select copy.

To print pages, click on the ‘Print’ tab.

To download current page as PDF use top bar options.

Accessing the e-books in ebrary

• Click on the ebrary link within Athens. Type into the search box the subject, keyword or author of the book you are looking for.

• You will be presented with a display page with links to e-books in relation to your search. Click on the title of any book you wish to access.

• Relevant books and personal notes can be stored in files accessed in the ‘Bookshelf’ tab.

Ebrary: e-book view

To copy from a book, highlight the selected text then select the copy icon.

To print click on the print icon. This will open a PDF document which you can then print.

To take notes click on the icon. All notes will be automatically saved into folders found in the Bookshelf tab.

To cite books click on the icon. This will automatically generate a correctly formatted reference. Remember to choose Harvard referencing style.

Functions with e-books in ebrary