Giving options to ‘Read online’ or ‘Download’

Step 1

Search the library catalogue for the ebook
http://jewel.newman.ac.uk/TalisPrism/

Step 2

Copy the link (as shown below)

Step 3

Paste the link in the required destination (do not paste the link in to MS Word as it will not work – if you need to paste it somewhere temporary, use Notepad), e.g.
http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/athens?url=http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9786000000004

Linking to a specific page in an ebook

Step 1

Search the library catalogue for the ebook
http://jewel.newman.ac.uk/TalisPrism/

Step 2

Copy the link (as shown below)

Step 3

Paste the link in the required destination (do not paste the link in to MS Word as it will not work – if you need to paste it somewhere temporary, use Notepad)

Change the URL to show ‘EBook’ not ‘Abstract’
Change from this:
http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/athens?url=http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9786000000004
To this:
http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/athens?url=http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/ external/EBookView/S9786000000004

Step 4

Adding /S and the relevant page number, e.g. /S25 at the end of the URL, will take you to the 25th page of the ebook. This may not necessarily be numbered page 25 as there may be unnumbered pages at the beginning of the book
http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/athens?url=http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/
external/EBookView/S9786000000004/S25

Notes on adding page numbers:

• There may be unnumbered pages at the beginning of the book so when creating links, you will need to account for the pages which come before page one (shown as "–" in the read online view). In the example above, there are 14 physical pages before page one, so everything will need to be plus 14 - therefore by putting S25, we are directed to numbered page 11.
• Alternatively, if there are a quite a few unnumbered pages, that you do not wish to count, put a rough estimation of what you think the page number may be. Test the link in your browser to see which page loads, and go back and alter as necessary.

Please do not:

• Copy links straight from Dawsonera (as these links will not work off campus)
• Copy and paste content from ebooks into Moodle – this is outside the terms of our license with Dawsonera.