To be able to highlight text in a library e-resource you'll need to download it rather than reading it in the browser window. You can open articles or other kinds of sources as PDFs in Adobe Acrobat to highlight. For eBooks, you can download the entire book or a chapter to be able to highlight it, bookmark it, and add notes.. For most eBooks you'll have the option of downloading it as a PDF or as an ePUB document to read in an e-reader, like Adobe Digital Editions. If you read the book in the browser window without downloading a chapter or the whole book, you won't be able to highlight or make notes.
Please note that when you read an eBook in the browser window, someone else can access it as soon as you close your browser tab or window. If you download the whole book, it is like checking it out. If there is only one copy of the eBook, no one else can access it until you return it or the loan period is up.
When reading a book in Adobe Acrobat reader as a PDF, you can highlight and re-save the PDF with your highlights.
Save the file to save the highlighted version.
To read an eBook in the ePUB format, you'll need to download Adobe Digital Editions. It is an e-reader application that you can download for free here. You'll also need a free Adobe account, which you can sign up for here. Once you have downloaded Adobe Digital Editions and downloaded the whole book or a chapter of the book and created an Adobe account, you can use the features in Adobe Digital Editions to highlight text, bookmark pages, and add notes.
Note: downloaded chapters of EBSCO ebooks can be kept indefinitely. Whole books will be unusable after the end of the period the check-out is for, so you will lose your highlighting at that point.
To download a single chapter at a time, click on the title of the book in your search results. Then, on the right side of the screen you'll see the table of contents of the book. Click on the download symbol to the right of the chapter you want to download.
After you have signed in and you have opened the book or the book chapter in Adobe Digital Editions, you can highlight by selecting the text you want to highlight and choosing Add Highlight from the Reading menu, or holding down shift-command-M on your keyboard.
You can also bookmark pages in Adobe Digital Editions, using the bookmark tool.
You can also add notes to the text by right clicking on the text you've selected, clicking Add Note to Text and then typing in the box that pops up.
More info:
Checking Out and Downloading EBSCO eBooks on a Desktop Computer
