When you login to ProQuest Ebook Central using OpenAthens, a unique OpenAthens numeric identifier tied to your Notre Dame login is passed to Ebook Central. This is used to create a new Ebook Central account linked to your university login.
An Ebook Central account allows you to:
- download entire books for a limited time (depending on publisher restrictions)
- make annotations
- create a personal bookshelf
- keep track of your downloads, loans and saved books
If you have an existing Ebook Central account and bookshelf and would like to retrieve your old bookshelf please submit a request via AskUs, see link below
Ebook Central requires bookshelf merge requests to be submitted by your librarian. Please ask your librarian to submit a case to Ebook Support. They will need to include the following information:
- The name of the library or university or the URL you use to access Ebook Central
- Your previous Ebook Central username (in most cases this will be your email address, if your library previously used the Ebook Central Patron Login authentication method to create accounts directly on Ebook Central)
- Your current Ebook Central username. The username seen by our system may differ from the username you use when signing in. To see what Ebook Central is using as your username, sign in to Ebook Central and go to Settings > Profile. Copy what you see under the "Email/Username" field
