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eBook Presentation
Heidi K.Jensen
Key Account Manager
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
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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
Example of a Reader Portal welcome page.
Example of Reader portal e-book collection
Example of Admin portal – where you manage your account
Example of how the reader portal could look
Total Book Management
One source for all your content…
Order eBooks using the same workflow Titles available immediately in OPAC Integration with Library Management System
Key Benefits
Outsource solution Significant cost savings to library budget Books reach end-user faster No cataloguing backlog Books/eBooks & AV Material: • Covered • Labelled • RFID inserted • RFID programmed • Security tagged • Barcodes • Ownership stamps • MARC records – AACR2 • Customised spine labels • Reclassification projects
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
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
Perpetual Access
• Flexible model – meets peaks and troughs of usage across the academic year • Only 1.4% second copy purchase • Sustainable business model
Patron Driven Acquisition
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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
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
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
5 Minute Preview Models
User A previews title User B previews title again to trigger Auto-purchase
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after the 5 minute preview has finished, the user will be asked if they wish to continue reading. Clicking “yes” will trigger a purchase
5 Minute Previews
5 Min Preview • Reader is given access to the entire title • Max price can be set for auto purchases
Another example of a text
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
Suggest for Purchase Model
Setting up PDA
• Marc records are loaded into the Library catalogue - 856 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
Case Study
A recent PDA trial at the University of Huddersfield concluded that: Non-PDA titles are almost twice as likely to have not been viewed as PDA titles PDA titles are twice as likely to have above average viewing stats than non-PDA titles
Direct Access Via Library Catalogue/VLE
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Table of Contents Add Notes Full Text Search within the PDF Print 20% & Copy 10% Export to Citation Manager Read Aloud
eCommerce – For Students/End Users
Content Discovery
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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
Subject Coverage
Computer science, information & general works Philosophy & psychology Religion Social sciences Language Science Technology Arts & recreation Literature History & geography
Publication Date
2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
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
New Title Alerts & Title Matching
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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
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
New Development For 2013
Reader Portal Redesign New Reader Device Compatibility
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
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