Dawson Books is at the forefront of technical innovation in book supply to academic, professional and research institutions.
In the continually expanding world of library services, Dawson Books is a genuine rarity: an agile, forward looking company with traditional values and unwavering commitment to personal service.
For more than 200 years we have been handling books with care and making them available to information specialists all over the world.
Dawson Books is a subsidiary of Dawson Holdings plc, a large public company with an annual turnover of £800m whose shares are quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Dawson Books is headquartered in large, modern, purpose-built premises in central England with sister companies in Paris and Madrid.
Integrating seamlessly with the existing Dawson services, dawsonera indicates the long term commitment of Dawson to providing libraries and information departments with the information flow they require, whether printed books or new media.
Working with the world's leading academic publishers, Dawson Books has ensured that rich and diverse content populates dawsonera for the benefit of your library users.
dawsonera enjoys an ever growing source of ebooks, providing library users with the diversity they need.
Each library builds a tailored collection of e-books for their patrons, title by title. Once purchased, perpetual access is offered to each copy. Alternatively, there is also the opportunity to temporarily rent any ebooks not yet purchased.
dawsonera allows many readers to read each ebook at the same time. Short term downloading of ebooks from the collection is also possible.
dawsonera is entirely web-based and has a Reader Portal, where ebooks may be discovered and read, and an Admin Portal, where ebooks are purchased and the collection managed. Publishers who partner with Dawson can also obtain information about their ebooks via the Publisher Portal.
Librarians and publishers are given password access to their portals. For readers, Dawson offers familiar log-ons - in the UK this is likely to be via an Athens password; elsewhere other options, such as EZproxy, are available.
The diversification of the content and its enrichment continues every day. Our emphasis is on providing academic titles with the European higher education market in mind. These are just some of the Publishers who have licensed ebooks to dawsonera:
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