E-books

Ellibs

A multidisciplinary collection of e-books (mainly in Finnish). E-books can be found via MetCat Finna or or you can browse Ellibs.

Read

You can read some of the e-books online in a browser. If reading online is not available, you can either download the e-book or read it in Ellibs app.

Download

E-books can be downloaded onto a computer. Required reader: Adobe Digital Editions or Thorium Reader.

After you have downloaded and activated Adobe Digital Editions

• Choose a loan time and click “Download (Digital Editions)”. The e-book will be downloaded onto your computer as a "URLLink.acsm" file.
• Open the file in Adobe Digital Editions.
• If your computer fails to open the e-book file directly in Adobe Digital Editions, save the .acsm file on your computer. Then right click on the file, select "Open with", and select Adobe Digital Editions from the list.

After you have downloaded Thorium Reader

• Choose a loan time and click "Download (Thorium Reader)".
• The e-book will be downloaded onto your computer as a lcpl file. Open the file in Thorium Reader.
• In Thorium Reader, books are opened with a user-specific password that you can check in Ellibs Library > My Bookshelf.

If you have problems with downloading books, see instructions in Ellibs.

Ellibs App

You can read Ellibs e-books using the Ellibs App. Download the app from App Store or Google Play.

Choose Metropolia as your library. Login to the app with Metropolia User ID (Haka login).

• If the app shows a white page after login, just close the login page, and the app will open.
• If the app does not show any e-books, log out and log back in again.

Reserve

If all copies of an e-book are on loan, you can make a reservation. Once the reservation is available to loan, you will receive an email notification. If you use the Ellibs App, you can also activate notifications for reservations.

License

For Metropolia students and staff. Log in with Metropolia username and password (Haka login).

No access to e-books for walk-in users.