The Online Reader for PDF was developed with extensive input from researchers, with an intuitive navigation panel to help you quickly find popular features. The default view includes an expandable Table of Contents and navigation pane on the left hand side. Close the navigation panel to expand your book to full screen for reading.
Use the online reader icons to interact with the book. Download the book for offline access, download a chapter, copy a page or print a section of the text
Add a book to your Bookshelf as a way of managing your research. Retrieve a page specific link to share a the book. Create a citation and choose from 5 styles
Annotate the book by highlighting, adding notes or bookmarking a page
Search Within Book
Type your search term into the search box, making sure to put phrases in quotes. Search results are displayed with frequency bars next to each chapter. Select the chapter name to see the results per page and contextual snippets of text.
View Online Allowances
On the book icon in the navigation panel, you can view your online allowances in copying or printing/chapter download. If you have printed, downloaded a chapter in PDF or copied any pages of the book, the allowances will automatically count down.
Copy
Copy the whole page by selecting the copy icon in the navigation toolbar. To copy text within a page, select your text and use the copy icon in the pop-up menu. This will count down your "pages to copy" allowances
Print and Chapter Download
Download a chapter to PDF. Text is searchable and selectable, and a citation is included. Pages included in your Chapter Download are counted as part of your overall print allowances.
Book Download
You can also view your download allowances, which will download the title into Adobe Digital Editions for offline access. In this example, the book is available to download for offline access for 21 days. Alternatively, you can continue to read the book on the online reader.
Annotations, Notes and Bookmarks
You can highlight sections of the book, add notes or bookmark pages of the book in the Online Reader itself. You may view and manage your annotations via the Star icon in the navigation panel. Books that are annotated are automatically saved into your Bookshelf.
The Online Reader for EPUB provides options for copy, print, download for offline access, citing and annotating. Use the arrows to navigate page by page.
Table of Contents
Access the Table of Contents via the icon on the top right. You may scroll through each chapter and click through to the relevant page.
Search Within
You may search within the title with a keyword or phrase search. You must use quotation marks if you wish to search for a phrase. The search function will highlight the relevant pages where your search term is found. You may then click through to the page you want
Font Size
If you click on the font size icon on the top right of the screen you get the option to adjust the size of the text:
Annotations
Select text and use the tools for annotations. You will find all your annotations for this book under the star icon.
Navigation
Clicking on the icon with the 3 dots will open a menu with multiple general platform navigation options. Here you can go back to the book's details page as well as to several other main navigation points of the platform like the search, the bookshelf, your profile, the language selection or the online help. Lastly, the menu also provides you the option to sign off.