The CLIC has started a 30 day free trial (until Monday 2/2/09) of the Dawsonera ebooks collection. Dawsonera is a searchable web-based collection of over 80,000 ebooks which can be previewed online and once purchased can be viewed online, downloaded to a PC, laptop or USB flash drive and printed (up to 5% of ebook can be printed in line with copyright rules). Readers can even request for an ebook to be "rented" for a short period of time if we have not already purchased it.
The CLIC can order ebooks in the same way as printed books for just over the cost of the hardback version of the book and, again like a printed book, we will own this book outright although access to it is resticted on an annual basis. So ebooks may be a very economic solution to the age-old problem for librarians of everyone wanting the same book at the same time. Also ebooks can't be overdue, lost, damaged or stolen!
The free trial gives us access to 50 ebooks without charge to allow you to see how the system operates and to get a feeling of what an ebook is. You are also able to preview any of the other ebooks in the collection (currently around 82,000) for up to 5 minutes.
To access this free trial of the Dawsonera ebooks collection go to www.dawsonera.com and log in using the Direct Login details which are available on request from the CLIC.
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