Printing, Emailing and Saving Articles

Printing

There are six networked laser printer available in the Library, located on the main floor in the Reference area. To print from PCs in the Library or Labs, you will need to have funds available on your student card. Funds can be loaded onto your card on the 2nd and 5th floor of the Library at the Card Value Centre (CVC) located near the photocopy machines or on the CVC in the main lobby of the Library. Copy cards for the use of the printer are also available, cost $5 and are available from the card dispensers on the 2nd and 5th floor, or from the Ryerson One-Card Office. Printing costs $0.07 per page.

Print jobs may also be sent from the Library computers to printers in KHW71 and the lab in BUS511.

Printing from wireless laptops: To print using your wireless laptop, you will need to log into the Ryerson University Campus Printing Service (this link will only work on wireless laptops). CCS provides more information about this service in their user's guide under Ryerson University Campus Printing Service (CPS).

HTML (Web page) documents: Most databases have a print or print version icon. Make sure that you click on this icon or link and follow any instructions. This will format your article in a manner appropriate for printing. If there is no print icon, you can either click on the print button in your browser or choose 'File', 'Print' from the browser menu bar.

To print just a small section of the article, highlight the text that you want to print. Select 'File', 'Print' from the menu bar. Under 'Print Range', choose the selection option. If you are printing just a section of an article, it is a good idea to make sure you also print the citation information for your bibliography.

PDF Documents: Click on the print icon in the Adobe Acrobat reader. This will give you the option of printing one page, all pages or a selection of pages. Do not use the print options in your browser as this may cause blank pages to print.

Emailing

Most databases allow you to email articles or citations. Check for an email icon or link on the page. Instructions are provided for the following major groups of databases:

Ebsco: Display the article in the format that you want. Click on email

Cambridge: Mark the article(s) that you want. Click on the Save/Print/Email Records button. Input your email address and click on the email button.

Lexis/Nexis: Display the article. Click on the email tab. Enter your email address and click on email.

Proquest: Open the article. Click on Email Article button. Enter your email address when prompted.

OVID: Mark the articles that you want. At the bottom of the page, select your desired options and click on email.

Scholarsportal: Currently it is not possible to email articles from scholarsportal.

Saving

Some of the databases will have a save icon you can click if you want to save a citation or article. Click on this icon and follow the instructions given. If there is no save or link icon provided, go to 'File', 'Save As' and save the document that way. To save your article as a text file instead of HTML, use the 'Save As Type' drop down menu in the 'Save As' box. Select 'Text File (*.txt)'.

To save a pdf article, use the 'Save' icon in the Adobe Acrobat Reader.