Browsing your books

When you first log into the site, all the services available as part of your subscription are listed at the left of the screen under the "Browse my Content" heading.

To access a particular title, click on the name of the service. You can click on either the name, or the plus symbol which will reveal the list of titles included within that service. For example, to open "The Law of Companies" click on the "Irish Company and Commercial Law" service and then click on "The Law of Companies". You may have to scroll down, depending on how many services you subscribe to. 

Using the table of contents

To open a chapter in the table of contents, click on it. For example, to open Chapter 1, click on the words "Chapter 1: The Private Company Limited by Shares in Context" in the table of contents.

Chapter 1 is now displayed in the main document window and the table of contents has opened to show the sub-headings contained within that chapter. 

You can open any other chapter in the book by clicking on it in the table of contents.

You can return to the book homepage at any time by either clicking the title of the book, "The Law of Companies", in the table of contents, or by clicking the italicised title of the book in the bibliographic material under the chapter title at the top of the document window.

Searching the current book

Whenever you have a book open you can search just within that book by using the Search within book function.

 Enter search terms in this box and click "Go" (or press "Enter" on the keyboard) to review search results from the current book.

• More information on searching is provided on the search help page.

The bibliographic information for the current book

Every book contained in Bloomsbury Professional Online contains bibliographic information to help you identify the author, edition and date of that title.

The following information is provided:

• Book title
• Author(s) or Editor(s)
• ISBN number
• Publisher
• Copyright information
• Edition
• Publication date
• Law stated at date

The summary information for the current book

Each book has summary information describing the book contents and, where relevant, may highlight updates and additions in the most edition or release.