Like many different apps and websites, there's a lot of things you can do on the FE Subscription Collection platform which are extra to the basic reason you want to use it for in the first place, and the other pages in this section will go into more detail on the different features of the platform. This page looks at the basics of accessing, reading and downloading ebooks on the ebook FE Subscription Collection
In January 2025, EBSCO changed the user interface for their databases. This video below introduces the new interface
These books are not available on the public Internet. You need a password to log in to FE Subscription Collection. You can request a login by contacting the library with an institutional email (college/ETB/training centre). We cannot accept requests made from a webmail (Gmail, Yahoo etc).
If you have the password, click on the link in the Access page and enter your password. On the page that opens, click the Access EBSCO eBooks for FE Subscription Collection link
In January 2025, EBSCO changed the user interface so that you can only search for ebooks, you cannot browse.
There's both basic and advanced searching available. Basic searching is a Google-like search box. After searching
Enter your search term(s) and click the Search button.
On the results page, click the title to see a book detail page/
Every book has a detail page that contains:
Reading online is easier than downloading to your device, and you can do more things reading online. On the other hand, if you download the book, you don't need to be online to read the book after you have opened it for the first time.
On a search results page, click the title or the PDF/ePUB link below the book details to read online
On a book detail page, click the PDF/ePUB link in the left-hand column to read the ebook online.
You can navigate between pages by using:
To be able to read a downloaded ebook on your device,
These ebooks have DRM (Digital Rights Management) controls (Simple English Wikipedia definition), so the ebook will "expire" after a certain amount of time, and you won't be able to read it after that. If the book has expired, and you're not finished reading it, then download it again (and again and again...). You can download a book for up to 7 days.
Click the full download link to get the whole ebook for download. Open the book Instead of saving it, as you need to be online to open a book for the first time (it's a DRM thing). In addition to downloading the whole book, you can download individual chapters, but note that these are subject to the same limitations as printing and copying.
The table of contents on the book detail page has links to download individual chapters
Click on a downward pointing chevron to expand a section
Downloaded chapters can be opened in Adobe Reader or any other app that can open PDF files
All these different ebooks come from different publishers. Each of these publishers have different rules about how much of the book can be printed or text copied. The book detail page will have information about how pages can be printed or copied.
In the PDF/ePUB full-text, click the 
to select what you want to print.
To copy text, highlight a portion of eBook text and use your browsers copy function (Ctrl + C) to copy the text.
A MyEBSCO account is required to be able to download books. It also lets you save items, searches and search results.
