======  Philippine eLib Portal  ======

===== User Manual =====



===== Section 1 General Information =====
 ==== 1.1 Project Overview ====

The Philippine eLib is a collaborative project of the National Library of the Philippines(NLP), University of the Philippines(UP), Department of Science and Technology(DOST), Department of Agriculture(DA), and the Commission on Higher Education(CHED).

Funded through the e-Government Fund of the Philippine Government, the project hopes to provide for the information needs of all sectors of society in a convenient, affordable, and efficient way of delivery.

The Philippine eLib Portal serves as the gateway to all the online resources and services of the Philippine eLib project. It aims to:
  * provide access to the collection of the different participating institutions
  * facilitate shared subscription to online resources;
  * provide document delivery services;
  * provide current contents services; and
  * provide mechanism for fee services.

The eLib Portal consists of the following components and services:

  * Union catalog (bibliographic data);
  * Digitized materials (full-text documents);
  * Document Delivery (downloads, courier services);
  * Shared subscription (electronic databases);
  * Alert services (SDI, email);
  * Membership (partners, content builders, special collecting officers, individual members, institution members, prepaid card users); and
  * Help System (online help, FAQs).

==== 1.2 Purpose ====
This manual aims to inform the users of the Philippine eLib on the different functionalities of the eLib Portal system, how to navigate the different parts of the system, and how to maximize all available features.

==== 1.3 Intended Readership ====
This manual is intended for all types of users, such as, Partners, Subscribers, Prepaid card users, and Guests.

===== Section 2 System Overview =====
The Philippine eLib Portal is a web-based system which serves as a gateway to all its products and services. It has the following major components:

  * Union catalog – contains consolidated bibliographic records in Machine Readable Catalog (MARC) format from the different libraries of the partner institutions;

  * Digitized materials – electronic copies of books, thesis, manuscripts, and other Filipiniana materials scanned from print or converted from microfilm and stored as digital images in Portable Document Format (PDF) files;

  * Shared subscription – shared access to foreign electronic journals and databases currently subscribed to by the Philippine eLib;

  * Membership – refers to the type of membership available for users of the Philippine eLib. Members are categorized as either Partners, Content Builders, Subscribers (individual or institution), or Pre-paid card users; and

  * Cyber Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) – an email-based alert service provided by the Philippine eLib to users subscribed to this service. In this service, a subscriber is informed, through email, on new resources available in the database that matches his/her selected categories.

===== Section 3 Getting Started =====
==== 3.1 User Information ====
To access Philippine eLib, open your web browser and type the server’s URL in the address bar (shown
in Fig. 1).
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Figure 1 Website URL

==== 3.2 Default Page====
Users will be brought to this page as they visit the page.

==Search Bar==
Allows users to search
===Register===
Clicking this button will direct you to the registration form where you will be prompted to enter your personal infomation as part of the registration. A guest(unsubscribed users) can not view and post questions and if a guest wants to buy books, the items that has been added to cart will not be saved, unlike with the subscribed users who can still view added-to-cart items.

===Log In===
Users who already have their accounts are required to enter their username and password. 


===Dashboard===