New ProQuest Ebook App – What's New at the Library

A new app is ready to handle your “bookshelf” any time you check out a full ebook from ProQuest’s Ebook Central platform: Ebook Central Reader App. If you have ever used Adobe Digital Editions to read ProQuest ebooks in the past, this app replaces it.

Ebooks from platforms like Cambridge Core, De Gruyter Brill, Elsevier ScienceDirect, Oxford Academic, and SpringerNature Link are unaffected.

You will also still be able to read ProQuest ebooks in your browser or download chapters as PDFs without using this app. This app is only for reading ProQuest ebooks that you have checked out.

You will recognize this app is necessary when the phrase “free third-party software” appears in the Availability section of the ebook details on Ebook Central.

The details page for a book on the Ebook Central platform highlighting the need for an app in order to download the entire book. (You don’t need the app to read the book in your browser or download a chapter.)

App Installation

Once you encounter a ProQuest ebook that you want to check out, the basic outline of steps are as follows:

Select Download Book and confirm the checkout length
Follow the download button to download the version of the app that matches your device
Go back to your browser to see the registration code and then enter it into the app and submit
Once the app syncs, you will see the ebook on your “bookshelf”

You are all set up and ready to read!

Most people will probably set this app up on a laptop first, but if you would also like to use the app on your phone or a tablet, you can add it as a another device:

Download and install Ebook Central Reader App from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store
Open the app, where you’ll see a welcome message
Go back to Ebook Central on your browser, select Profile, then look down the page for the line EBC APP DEVICES and select the link for Manage
On the Manage Your Devices page, select the button that says Get Login Code
Enter the registration code into the app on your phone and submit

Your Profile on Ebook Central will let you manage your connected devices and get registration codes to add new devices.

Once you have the app installed, your app bookshelf will sync between devices. This first version of the app supports bookmarking; highlighting and note taking are in development for future releases.

Any device you have registered will appear in your ProQuest account on the Manage Your Devices page in your Profile. You can remove a device whenever you want.

If you have any trouble setting up this app, please get in touch!

Useful Links

Ebooks at Reed LibGuide: Ebook Providers and Ebook Accessibility
ProQuest’s Installation Guide
ProQuest LibGuide page for the app