dawsonera

Dawsonera e-books are now hosted on the VLeBooks platform. While we migrate links, please go to https://www.vlebooks.com/ and select the Shibboleth login option and then search to access this book.  

Access on and off campus - click sign in link at top right corner of webpage and select "shibboleth login" option, then select "University of Edinburgh" from the drop down menu.  You wil be asked for your University Login if not already signed in on that browser.

Dawsons e-books will transfer to VLeBooks on the 1st August 2020 and any notes must be downloaded before then.

The copyright restriction for dawsonera varies from publisher to publisher, but is typically 20% for copying, and 10% printing, per user, for the life of each e-book. (N.B. Springer/Elsevier/CUP & several other academic publishers have set the restriction at 5% for both copying and printing.

Books may be downloaded for 1 day to be read offline (except for titles published by Pearson and Wiley E-Textbooks which do not allow any downloads).  This requires Adobe Digital Editions or Bluefire Reader.   Links to the software required can be found at the point of downloading an e-book.  If you download an e-book you will not be able to copy or print any part of the text.