In order to download any title from EBL, the user must have Adobe Digital Editions installed on his or her device. Adobe Digital Editions is a program that provides digital rights management (DRM) options to publishers to ensure their e-content isn't being unlawfully downloaded or shared. Adobe Digital Editions is not a program that is available on any campus computers.
That being said, we're not going to be instructing students to download any of the EBL ebooks. If they would like to download it on to their own device and/or are familiar with it already they are more than welcome to download the ebooks, but we are not going to provide instruction or support with installation or management of Adobe Digital Editions.
Instead we will be recommending that students print to PDF if they would like to access a portion of one of these ebooks offline. This process will very much mirror the process that students use to download portions of ebooks in EBSCO databases. As with EBSCO ebooks, there will be a limited number of pages that can be "printed" at one time that will vary based on a number of factors including the length of the book and publisher.
Elizabeth is working on two separate tutorials: one that will talk about access the EBL books and another that will instruct on how to print to PDF.
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