For students
eContenta offers sophisticated tools to personalize and manage your workspace and a forum for group discussions of texts.
Reading tools
Read:
online, using all our tools and reading aids or off-line (ACS)
Mark and annotate:
create your own notes to text and mark relevant passages
Search fulltext:
find easily anything you need within a text and sort results by page number or relevance
Look up:
users can take advantage of the context menu turning each word in the text into a gateway
Organizing your workspace
Organize:
sophisticated structure of user's saved resources (bookshelf), allowing convenient organization of data (tree structure)
Customize:
add your own descriptions to your catalogs or publications saved to your bookshelf
Use tags:
tag your notes, bookmarks and whole publications to organize them through keywords
Cite:
create automatic citations in one of the academic styles or fully customized format
Bibliography:
Create a quick bibliography: using convenient citation tools providing full bibliographic information (customizable styles)
Print or copy:
make print outs or copies of the relevant text fragments (within the limits of DRM / copyright restrictions)
Import:
add to your bookshelf your own resources (for personal use or use within his/her institution)
Export:
Get content of your comments and marked passages to use in your documents
Collaboration
Share:
make available one of your catalogues to your friends - and decide for how long they should have access
Share your notes and markings:
sharing your annotations with your friends or groups of users can spark up interesting discussions
Discuss:
use our in-the-text forum tools to respond to the comments of other readers
Review and recommend:
recommend the book to other users of your institution, rate a publication or write a review