c) You will then receive a message instructing you to open your e-mail and activate your newly created account. d) In your e-mail open the new message from EBL (
[email protected] ) with the subject “NEW EBL account” and click on the activation link contained in the e-mail. e) You will be taken the EBL page informing you that your account has been activated. f) Now go to http://msuz.eblib.com and log in with username and password you supplied in step 3 above, you will be taken to the page below.
Search box
Search page
g) Type your keywords in the search box and click on the “Search” button. You will be taken to the results page shown below.
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Results
Results page
h) Click on the “Read this book” link on a result of your choice and you may initially get the screen below before going tom the actual book.
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Table of contents
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Click on a topic in the Table of contents to read the book online. NOTE: In EBL you can download book chapters for offline reading. You will need a software such as Adobe Digital Editions to download e-Book chapters for offline reading. 7.1.3
Accessing E-Brary E-brary is an online digital library of full texts for over 55,000 scholarly e-books. It provides a set of online database collections that combine scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also includes sheet music (9,000 titles) and government documents. To access e-brary follow the following steps: i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi.
Open your browser and go to www.msu.ac.zw Click on the “Libraries” link at the top of the page On the Library page click on the “e-Books” link to get to the page below. Navigate to the letter “E” on the A-Z list and look for EBRARY Click on the EBRARY link to bring up the log in page. Log in with your staff portal username and password or your student e-Learning username and password.
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Staff login
Student login
Log in page
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The e-Brary search page will now load. It resembles the page below.
Search box
e-Brary search interface page
viii.
Type your keywords in the search box and click on the “Search” button. You will get results as shown on the picture below.
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