Ebook FAQ for VCU Libraries

Licensing Overview

• User Licenses: Unlimited.
• Permanent Access: Varies.
  • Perpetually owned titles:
    • Ebooks in the "Wiley Online Books (VCU perpetual titles)" or "VIVA Wiley UBCM Perpetual Access Ebooks" collections are perpetually owned.
    • Ebooks in the "Wiley Online Books (VIVA package)" collection are perpetually owned if they are listed in the "Wiley UBCM Selected Titles" list on VIVA's Title List webpage. (Note: To view the data in a spreadsheet, you can try copying the data that appears into a text file and saving it as a .TSV file.) This list has titles added to it regularly.
  • Subscription-only titles:
    • Ebooks in the "Wiley Online Books (VIVA package)" collection are subscription-only if they are not part of the perpetual collections listed above, or if they are not listed in the "Wiley UBCM Selected Titles" file (see above).
• DRM-free? Yes.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

VPAT: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/customer-success/wiley-online-library/vpat
Wiley accessibility features: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/accessibility

Information forthcoming.

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

Entire Ebook Download: Yes. Click on "Download Full Book" at the top of the Table of Contents to download a book in PDF format.

Chapter Downloads: Yes. There are a couple ways you can download a full chapter in PDF format.

If you are viewing the Table of Contents, you can click on the "PDF" link under each chapter title to download a chapter. 

If you are on the Summary page of a chapter, click on the "PDF" button above the Summary.

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.

• Copy the book or book chapter's URL directly from the browser's address bar
• Add VCU Libraries's proxy address to the front ( http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url= ).
  • Sample URL: http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119282549

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.

• Copy the URL directly from your browser's address bar for your book or book chapter. It should include "VCU" in the URL somewhere.
  • Sample URL: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.library.vcu.edu/doi/book/10.1002/9781119282549

Tips forthcoming.