1. eBook Presentation Heidi K.Jensen Key Account Manager

2. Why Dawson Books? Dedicated on-going support of your account
At the forefront of technical innovation in partnership with libraries
One source for all your content needs, regardless of format
Market leading supply times
People who genuinely care about you

3. Why dawsonera? More than 240,000 ebooks… and growing!
Over 450 publishing partners
Fully integrated ‘print’ and ‘ebook’ acquisitions
Order via existing workflows ‘dawsonenter’, ‘EDI’ etc..
Order confirmations and direct URL links within 6 hours and instant access with PDA. You “design your own platform” – Admin/Reader
OPAC ready MARC records AACR level II (Inc. 856 tag)
Link to ebooks at page, chapter and title level OPAC/VLE/MLE - course packs!
COUNTER usage reports
Integration with link resolvers, federated search and content discovery
Authentication via IP, Shibboleth, Athens, EZproxy, CGI or Username and Password

4. Example of a Reader Portal welcome page.

5. Example of Reader portal e-book collection

6. Example of Admin portal – where you manage your account

7. Example of how the reader portal could look

8. Total Book Management One source for all your content…
Integration with Library Management System
Books/eBooks & AV Material:
Covered
Labelled
RFID inserted
RFID programmed
Security tagged
Barcodes
Ownership stamps
MARC records – AACR2
Customised spine labels
Reclassification projects
Order eBooks using the same workflow
Outsource solution
Titles available immediately in OPAC
Key Benefits
Significant cost savings to library budget
Books reach end-user faster
No cataloguing backlog

9. Acquisition & Online Management Portal
Quick and easy search of 16.8 million titles of print, ebooks and AV material
Integration with our ebook platform, dawsonera
Filtered search results to identify the most relevant content
Online ‘track and trace’ information for order delivery
Simple, powerful new title alerting service based on Dewey 22
Real time management information
Mapping of library acquisition, replicating preferences to model workflows
Proposals, vendor loaders and EDI ordering

10. eBook Business Models Perpetual Access Model
Build a tailored collection of ebooks
No minimum order
No platform fees
No annual subscription
Reader and Admin portal
Publisher’s list price
325 to 400 Access Credits per year
1 Credit = 24 hour access period per user
Credits renew annually - no additional cost
Rental model
Patron driven acquisition
Tailored subject collections
eCommerce – rentals for end users

11. Perpetual Access
Flexible model – meets peaks and troughs of usage across the academic year
Only 1.4% second copy purchase
Sustainable business model

12. Patron Driven Acquisition
Benefits
Real-time access to content not owned by the library
Create a ‘profile selection’ or make 240,000 ebooks visible
Allocate funds per dewey numbers to control purchases
Automatic warning when credit limits are reached
Option to upload MARC files to library catalogue
Free MARC records
Demand/usage based model - just in time instead of just in case!
Deliver the content end-users want, when they need it
Only pay for titles that your end-users actually use

13. Patron Driven Acquisition
4 models/triggers that are inter-operable and allow the customer flexibility to build a model that best suits their needs, whilst protecting the budget. Underpinned by PDA reporting which clearly demonstrates ROI.
(x) Suggestions for purchase
(x) 5 minute previews, or reading for more than 5 minutes
(x) Rentals
Download (10.87MB)
Read Online
Remove Favourite

14. Rental Model User A rents title
User B hits “request rental” to trigger
Auto-purchase
Administrators can set up:
Rental budget limit
Individual rental price limit
Auto-purchase price limit
Max rental period – 1,2 or 3 weeks
No. of rentals before auto-purchase

15. 5 Minute Preview Models User A previews title
User B previews title again to trigger
Auto-purchase
OR after the 5 minute preview has finished, the user will be asked if they wish to continue reading. Clicking “yes” will trigger a purchase

16. 5 Minute Previews 5 Min Preview
Reader is given access to the entire title
Max price can be set for auto-purchases

17. Another example of a text

18. Suggest for Purchase Model
User A suggests a title for purchase
User B selects the same title to trigger
Auto-purchase
Administrators can set up:
Auto-purchase price limit
No. of suggestions before auto-purchase
Report of all suggestions available in the Admin Portal

19. Suggest for Purchase Model

20. Setting up PDA
Marc records are loaded into the Library catalogue tags included
Records can be filtered by DDC, publisher, language, readership level and place of publication and mirrored to the platform to ensure the available collection is exactly what you want
Titles can be suppressed by DDC and publisher in the Admin Portal
Over 240,000 titles to choose from
Funds per dewey number to ensure individual budgets per subject

21. Case Study
A recent PDA trial at the University of Huddersfield concluded that:
PDA titles are twice as likely to have above average viewing stats than non-PDA titles
Non-PDA titles are almost twice as likely to have not been viewed as PDA titles

22. Direct Access Via Library Catalogue/VLE
Table of Contents
Add Notes
Full Text Search within the PDF
Print 20% & Copy 10%
Export to Citation Manager
Read Aloud

23. eCommerce – For Students/End Users

24. Content Discovery Live
Serial Solutions – Knowledge Works, 360 & Summon
Bowker – Syndetics
ExLibris – SFX, Metalib & Primo Central
Coming Soon!
WorldCat
Talis Aspire
Google
Ebsco Host
Aquabrowser
Dawson can provide metadata for all dawsonera titles

25. Subject Coverage

26. Publication Date

27. Popular Publishers Taylor & Francis Pearson Open University Press Sage
Wiley
Elsevier 15,000 titles unlimited access
McGraw-Hill
Palgrave
Jessica Kingsley
Butterworth Heinemann
Learning Matters
Channel View
Hodder Education
Cambridge University Press
O’Reilly DRM Free!
Nelson Thornes
Cengage

28. New Title Alerts & Title Matching
New title alerting when…
An ebook is added to the platform
An ebook is superseded by a new edition
We add the 'e' version of any printed title you have purchased
Title match reports
Print book purchases
Subject set: short loan collection or reading list
Dewey classification or range

29. Collection Development
New title alerts by subject profile
Subject base title matching/profiling
Title matching on historical print purchases
Title matching of OPAC export/Short loan collections or Reading lists
Publisher/title requests
Be Savvy
Review your usage reports/profiles to ensure ROI
Usage correlation to degree results?
Monitor student recommendations
Review ‘bundled’ content - quality over quantity
Look at Demand Driven Acquisition

30. Reader Portal Redesign
New Development For 2013
Reader Portal Redesign
New Reader
Device Compatibility

31. New Development For 2013 Open Access
Users will soon be able to discover dawsonera titles via Google without having to login first.
Reader Portal Redesign
A complete new design and refreshed look
Faceted Catalogue
A faceted search by subject areas
Device Compatibility
Ability to download and read online with the most popular devices such as iPhone, Android devices and Sony eReader

32. Why dawsonera? Over 240,000 e-books, from 450 publisher imprints
Publishers’ list price
Leading business models – multiple concurrent access at no extra
cost, no subscription fee nor platform fee, no minimum orders – you
only pay when you buy, meaning free access to the huge database!
You own the titles you purchase – we host them
At the forefront of technical innovation in partnership with libraries
People who genuinely care about you and will offer the best service

33. Tak for Jeres tid!
Heidi K. Jensen Key Account Manager