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Platform Name
dawsonera
Address
Dawson Books Ltd
Foxhills House
Rushden
NN10 6DB
UK
URL
Contact Email
enquiries@dawsonera.com
Contact us for to match your title wishlist against available ebooks.
Contact Tel
+44 (0)1933 417500
Titles
98,000 ebooks available from (amongst others) Elsevier, Wiley, Routledge, Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Hart Publishing, Berg, Policy Press, Springer, ABC-CLIO, Open University Press, Brill, McGraw-Hill, Marcel Dekker, Greenwood, Cambridge University Press, CABI, Artech House, Jessica Kingsley, Chicago University Press, Intellect, Edward Elgar, Academic Press, Idea Group, Equinox, Icon Press, Kogan Page, Multilingual Matters, Sage, CRC Press, World Scientific, Hodder Education, Edinburgh University Press, A&C Black, OECD, Amsterdam University Press, Cyan, IOS Press, .
Summary
An ebook acquisition, management and reader platform for academic libraries everywhere that fully integrates with the current Dawson library supply service - print and 'e' catalogues are combined for single source research, customer accounts are consolidated for print and 'e', MARC records supplied for both, OPAC linking etc.
Content
Business Models
Libraries build a tailored collection of ebooks title by title paying list price for perpetual ownership. No subscriptions are paid.
Non-owned ebooks may also be rented by requesting individuals for a short period as an alternative to inter-library loans.
Licensing Models
Libraries sign a license agreement to use the dawsonera platform in their institution and then have access to a Reader Portal (for students) and an Admin Portal (for library staff). eBooks are licensed from publishers for hosting on dawsonera for one-off sale to libraries. Revenues are paid to publishers as the ebooks are sold to libraries.
Access Control
Authentication
- Username/Password
- Classic Athens
- SAML Compliant (e.g. Shibboleth)
- Referring URL
- EZ Proxy
- Member of UK Access Management Federation
Concurrency Limit
Up to 400 concurrent users are permitted to access each ebook simultaneously.
Restrictions
Access is authenticated at an individual and institutional level. DRM is flexible but robust.
Notes
eBooks may be temporarily downloaded for offline reading. Remote access for distance learners is enabled. Small portions of each ebook may be copied and printed. Notes can be added to each ebook for subsequent use. eBooks can be bookmarked for quick retrieval.
Search
Features
- Advanced Search
- Boolean AND
- Boolean NOT
- Boolean OR
- Exact Phrase
- Keywords
- Search by Author
- Search by Title
- Search by Series Title
- Search by Full Text
- Search by ISBN
- Search by Date
- Search by Metadata
- Search by Dewey Decimal
- Search by BIC Subject Codes
- Simple Search
- Search Only Subscribed Content
- Search All Titles
Indexing
- Library of Congress
- Dewey Decimal
- BIC Subject Codes
Cross Database Search
Cross-searching of the Dawson catalogue of 11 million printed books is possible.
Web Search
The Dawson web catalogue and new title alerting website are integrated with dawsonera.
Saved Searches
Saved searches are planned.
Search Tips
Search tips are provided and online contextual help is available.
Search Other Content
Searching across content other than ebooks/books is not currently offered
Search Results
Functionality
- Include Abstracts
Ordering
Results are ranked by relevance
Presentation
Relevance ranked short records are expandable to full individual bibliographic records
Selecting Results
Users can select a result and preview the ebook
Exporting
- Refwork
eBook Navigation
Presentation
eBooks are presented with a table of contents and full text display.
Links
- Additional resources (e.g. end matter, glossaries)
Restrictions
- Copy
- Paste
- DRM used
Other Functionality
Linking
- Page Linking
- MARC linking
- Linking to OPAC
- Linking to VLE/MLE
Help Information
Full online help is available for authorised users (incl contextual help)
Training
dawsonera is designed to be intuitive but training for groups can be provided by Dawson staff
Interface Customisation
Own branding is an option (eg: an institutional logo can be added by the user)
Alerting
New title alerting is available. New edition alerting is provided. Availibility of new ebooks for previously purchased print titles is an option.
Software Updates
Updates are provided as enhanced releases occur.
Usage Stats
- COUNTER Compliant Vendor
- COUNTER Book Reports 1-6
- Available Online
Metadata
- MARC
- Integration with Catalogues for MARC records
Technical Integration
Integrates with Z39.50 queries.
VLE Integration
dawsonera may be used as a resource from within VLEs
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is not currently supported
Language Support
The interface is in English. Non-English character sets for title display is supported. Non-English content is hosted.
Other
eBooks may be downloaded by authorised users and non-owned ebooks may be rented for short periods of time.
Accessibility
W3C Compliance
dawsonera is W3C compliant
Browser Compatibility
The interface has been tested on all well known browsers for PCs and Macs
Plugins Required
No plug-ins are required
Availability & Uptime
24/7 Uptime
dawsonera is available 24/7
Downtime (as specified in service level agreements)
There are no regular periods of downtime.
Mirror Sites
No mirror sites but instant disaster recovery contingency is in place.
