EBSCO eBooks Support: Searching and Features

To locate books in EBSCO eBooks you can either do a Basic search or an Advanced search.

To do a Basic Search you can use the quick search box located on the home page. For Advanced Searching click on the link located above the quick search box.

For more information about searching read the articles below:

For information about the different ways you can find eBooks watch this video:

Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT can be used to expand or limit your search. For example:

• searching business and Australia finds books that contain both business and Australia. The and search is the default search.
• searching childcare or daycare finds books that contain either childcare or daycare
• Searching children not adolescents finds results that only contain children

Truncation searching is supported using an asterisk (*).  For example:

• searching for Austral* will return results for Australia, Australian, Australians, Australasia.

For further information about Boolean operators read the article below:

To read a book online, click on PDF Full Text or EPUB Full Text, alternatively you can scroll down to the Table of contents to select a particular chapter.

Find out how to navigate the book in the article below:

The book details page provides information about the book and how it can be accessed. You can see the Availability of the book including number of copies held. You can also see how many pages you can print, email, copy and paste. 

When accessing or downloading EBSCO eBooks, you may see the choice to select eBooks in either PDF or EPUB format. EPUB is recommended for reading in the app on mobile devices. Some books are not available in PDF.

If you try to access an eBook and get the following message “Sorry, this eBook is in use.”  All copies of the book are in use and you will need to try to access it at another time.

For more information on downloading go to Chapter download  or Full download to app.

EBSCO is committed to providing accessible experiences for all users, regardless of ability or impairments.

• EBSCO’s company-wide design standards include requirements for minimum color contrast, including for color vision impairments
• The online book viewer for allows users to Zoom content beyond 200%.
• The collection is navigable with just a keyboard.
• EBSCO tests interface and content with the following screen reader/browser combinations:
  • Desktop: JAWS + Internet Explorer 11
  • Desktop: JAWS + Chrome
  • Desktop: NVDA + Firefox
  • Desktop: Safari (latest) + VoiceOver
  • Mobile Apple devices: Safari + VoiceOver
  • Mobile Android devices: Chrome + TalkBack

For further information about accessibility read the article below.