Getting Access to Online Weimer

GEDIs,

The previous post included a link to the online Weimer text available to us via VT libraries. Copying and pasting the link is easy, right?

Now what?

After selecting the book, you will be taken to EBSCOhost, VT's online book database. Using your VT PID and password will NOT work. You must sign up for an account with EBSCOhost. Once you do, you can search the database for Weimer.

The page will look like this:



Click on "eBook Full Text" and you will likely get this:



Enter your email and this will put you on a waiting list. When your name comes up, you should receive an email letting you know that you have access to the eBook.

EBSCOhost offers an in-browser reader. However, you need these chapters for the semester, so I suggest that you download the chapters as PDFs.

How do we do this? This actually gets a little complicated. I cannot find a better way to do this (if you know a better way, please respond with a comment), but it's as followed:

Once you are in the the in-browser reader, you will see the table of contents on your left, the reader in the middle, and a vertical set of tools on your right. Click on the chapter of interest and then click on the printer icon under tools. The result will look something like this:



Select "This section: # pages" and save the PDF without printing it. This is the only way I have found to save the whole chapter as a single PDF. PDFs derived from the Table of Contents only gives me one page at a time, and saving the chapter as single pages would be a huge waste of your time and effort.

If anyone has better advice, please speak up. I hope this helps.

- Adam