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Saving items in Library Search
Save individual books to look at later.
1) Go to our homepage and search for the books you want using the Library Search box.
2) Sign in using your University user ID and password.
2) When you find a resource you want to save, click the 'pin' icon next to the resource.
3) This will save the item to My Favourites. You can view your favourites by clicking your name in the top right-hand corner and selecting 'My Favourites' from the menu.
You can also save your searches and see your search history in My Favourites.
Saving items to a VLeBooks bookshelf
VLeBooks is a provider of many of the e-books in our collections. You can save these to a bookshelf on the VLeBooks website (an external website) to refer back to later.
1) Go to vlebooks.com.
2) Under 'Sign in below', click Shibboleth.
3) Click 'Find another institution' and search for University of Sunderland.
4) You will be redirected to our sign-in page, where you can enter your University user ID and password.
5) Once logged in, you will see your homepage where you can see details of the e-books you have previously read. Click on the 'Bookshelf' tab at the top.
6) You will now see a list of your bookshelves. To make a bookshelf, click the 'Create a Bookshelf' button then follow the instructions on-screen.
Saving items to a ProQuest Ebook Central bookshelf
ProQuest Ebook Central is a provider of many of the e-books in our collections. You can save these to a bookshelf on the ProQuest Ebook Central website (an external website) to refer back to later.
1) Go to ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sunderland/home.action.
2) You will be redirected to our sign-in page, where you can enter your University user ID and password.
3) Once logged in, click on the 'Bookshelf' option on the top menu.
4) You will see Ebook Central e-books you have saved to your bookshelf. To add books to this bookshelf, before you choose to read a book online or download it, under the book image there should be an option to 'Add to Bookshelf'.
Saving items and saving searches for journal articles in EBSCO databases
Create a personal My EBSCOhost account to view and organise items into folders, save your searches, and create email alerts to the latest research on your topic. Click here to learn how to create and manage a My EBSCOhost account.
1) Click on 'My Discover then 'Sign in to My EBSCOhost' and create a new account. You may want to use your University user ID and password so you do not have to remember new details. Once you have created an account, remember to log in each time you search for journals. (You will need to log in twice - once to see our subscriptions and again to access your personal folder.)
2) Click the blue folder icon next to the articles you want to save:
If you have found a particularly successful combination of keywords and you would like to save the search so that you can run it again next month or at any later date you can, just follow these steps:
1) At the top of your results list, click on 'Share' and choose 'Add search to folder'.
2) Once you have saved your search, click on the My Discover link in the top menu; the search will be saved to a folder called 'Persistent Links to Searches'.
3) You will be able to copy and paste the persistent link to run the search again at any time.
Creating a My EBSCOhost account
If using Username/Password to create a new My EBSCOhost account, the username is the University of Sunderland email address. If you are signing in with Google (what EBSCO terms a ‘Social’ account), you are strongly advised to check that you have set up your Google Gmail account with recovery information, such as an additional email address or mobile number. We cannot help reset passwords for My EBSCOhost accounts created using a 'Social' account.
If you have created a My EBSCOhost account using a 'Social' account and want to create an additional account using your University e-mail address, you should first link yourself to our institutional subscription by logging in to A-Z databases via library.sunderland.ac.uk using your 'Social' account - this establishes the link to our subscription. You can then use your University of Sunderland email address as your username to register and then merge the two accounts.
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