Ebook FAQ for VCU Libraries

Licensing Overview

• User Licenses: Unlimited simultaneous access allowed.
• Subscription or Permanent Access? Information forthcoming.
• DRM-free? Yes. None of the titles in this collection have viewing, printing, or downloading restrictions, nor do they require a vendor login.

List of all Ebook Titles in This Collection

A list of Gale titles is available online.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

A VPAT for Gale is available online. 

Information forthcoming.

More information on this topic is available at our Library Ebooks as Course Materials research guide.

Entire Ebook Download: Not available.

Chapter Downloads: To download a chapter, first open the chapter either in book or text view, then use one of these download buttons:

Note that if you are viewing a section of a chapter, that clicking on the download button will only download the section you are viewing.

The best ebook link to provide library users is the Primo (library website) permalink. Finding a permalink that includes "alma" (rather than "cdi") in the last part of the URL is your best bet, since those records are more likely to be stable.

If you require a direct link to the ebook, however, you can follow either of the instructions below to provide library users with links that should work on and off campus. Please be aware that if the publisher changes their ebook URLs that the links you generate below may stop working.

On campus
If you are creating this link on campus, use the following instructions to generate a URL that will allow your on- and off-campus users to access this ebook.

• After opening the ebook, look for the "Get Link" button:
  
• The URL will have VCU somewhere in the middle 
  

Off campus
If you are creating this link off campus, use the following instructions to generate a URL that will allow your on- and off-campus users to access this ebook.

• Follow the on-campus instructions above.

• Gale offers tutorial videos on: 
  • bookmarking
  • citations, and 
  • sending Microsoft Word documents to Google Drive and OneDrive, which can be edited afterwards. 
• Highlights and notes will be lost unless they're downloaded or sent to yourself. Contents will be lost after the browser is closed.
• Accessibility options
  • At the top left of each article, you can choose to translate articles, or translate the entire interface to a different language.
  • The "Listen" option at the top left of each article allows library users to listen to the audio in whichever language has been selected.