ProQuest Ebook Central

Links to whole books

  1. Go to ProQuest Ebook Central.
  2. Search for the book you require by entering the book title in the Search box and clicking on the Search button.
  3. Click on the book title.
  4. Click on the Read Online button.
  5. Click on the Book Details icon at the top menu bar:

    Book details icon

  6. Click on the Switch to PDF button.
  7. Click on the Share Link icon link icon
  8. Copy the link which appears in the pop-up window, eg https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/une/reader.action?docID=30371494&ppg=1&c=UERG
  9. Paste the link into your online teaching material.

No OpenAthens prefix is required.

Links to individual chapters

Links created to individual chapters before May 2025 may not work as intended due to changes to the default

  1. Go to ProQuest Ebook Central.
  2. Search for the book you require by entering the book title in the Search box and clicking on the Search button.
  3. Click on the Read Online button.
  4. Click on the Book Details icon at the top menu bar:

    Book details icon

  5. Click on the Switch to PDF button
  6. Click on the Table of Contents icon on the left:

    Table of Contents icon
  7. Click on the chapter your require.
  8. Click on the Share Link icon link icon
  9. Copy the link, eg https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/une/reader.action?docID=30371494&ppg=48&c=UERG
  10. Paste the link into your online teaching material.

No OpenAthens prefix is required.

Converting an old link to the new format

The widget below allows you to convert an old ProQuest Ebook link to the new format with a single mouse-click.

Simply cut and paste the docID from the old URL into the form and click on Generate.

Note that this widget only works for book-level links, not for links to specific chapters.

Creating  a new chapter-level link

The widget below allows you to generate a chapter-level link to the new format with a single mouse-click once you have handy the docID and the first page number in the chapter.

Simply cut and paste the docID and the page number into the form and click on Generate.

There is no way to automatically convert older, chapter-level links as new links include first page numbers (which are missing from the old-style links).