Dawson Books & Dawson’s eBook Programme Ronald Jaeger Łódź 20 June 2006

Dawson Books Founded 1992 from acquisition of 6 companies Dawson Books is Europe’s leading library supplier At the forefront of technical innovation in the supply of books and standing orders to academic, professional and research institutions Fully integrated European Operations in France & Spain Further offices in USA and South Africa

Dawson Books Foxhills House – heart of a world-wide supply operation with offices in UK, Spain, France, USA and South Africa.

Breadth of Supply English and Foreign language books from all over the globe An excellent reputation in supplying hard to find and “grey” literature Out of print and second hand books Specialist reports, proceedings, governmental and NGO publications Standing orders Videos, DVDs, CD-Roms Electronic Books

Total Book Management eB.com and eP.com OPen Direct & OPen Extra eAdvance Print on Demand Database enhancements Presto! Fastracq MARC record supply Re-classification service Dawson’s eBooks Programme

eBooks Corporation Founded in 1997 Headquartered in Perth, Australia One of the world’s leading retailers of eBooks Selling eBooks for download on behalf of more than 100 publishers New distribution model developed for academic libraries

Ebook Library - EBL Two portals – Patrons & Librarians Build a tailored collection No minimum order Browse before you buy Lend to more than one reader at a time Comply with copyright and digital rights Authentication – Athens, EZproxy or Direct User Login

EBL and Dawson Books Dawson is European Marketing Agent Product Support EBL’s catalogue of eBooks integrated with enterBooks Orders placed via EDI or enterBooks –quote Ref no. from Dawson title record OPAC ready MARC records supplied –eBook embedded 856 link URL included Billed by Dawson in €, £ or US$

enterBooks – Subject Codes

Book Search Results

New - eBook Search Results eBook purchased outright Publisher's Hardback price Multiple Concurrent Access 325 loan instances per year At the end of each year 325 loans renew at no extra cost

EBL – LibCentral

5 Minutes Browsing

Navigate through Chapters

Patron Portal Choose Patron View – view entire catalogue or owned ebooks Online Browsing - 5 minutes for all ebooks Link to ebooks via library OPAC or VLE from embedded 856 links eBooks may be read online or downloaded -on, or off campus DRM Copy & Paste = 5% Print = 20%

Search by Keyword

Read Online or Download

Read Online

Download to Read Offline

Add Annotations & Highlight

eBooks not owned by Library

Short Term Loan

Short Term Loan – Request

Librarian’s Portal - Approve or Reject

Patron - confirmation

Librarian’s Portal Viewing Library’s Collection

Reserve Items Put one chapter from each owned eBook into reserve ‘free of charge’ (linear lending) The entire chapter can be printed Purchase additional chapters for items in demand (linear lending)

View Reserve Items A unique URL is created for each reserve item. This URL can be copied to your VLE, Website or Library Catalogue.

Usage Reports

Invoice Reports

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