Dawsonera ebooks moving to VLEbooks

The Dawsonera ebook platform is going to be turned off on 31st July 2020, and all of the ebooks we have there transferred to VLEbooks. 

Over the next few days we will be working to change all of the links from our library catalogue, DISCOVER and reading lists to point to the new location. There may be a short period where some ebooks are not yet available at the new site, and you may not be able to access them. If after Monday 3rd August you have any troubles accessing ebooks, please contact us at library.technical@beds.ac.uk.

If you have any Dawsonera ebook links saved anywhere else, these will stop working on 31st July. 

Link to DISCOVER from BREO

BREO is having an update at the moment, but it seems to have reverted to an old version of the link out to DISCOVER, which will not let you log in to your DISCOVER folders. If this happens to you, follow this link which should let you access your folders correctly. We will get BREO changed as quickly as possible.

Dawsonera ebooks - provider change

If you are using Dawsonera ebooks you may see a warning notice like this:

This is because the company providing the service has gone into administration and ceased trading. Do not worry though, our Dawsonera ebooks are going to be migrating to another of our providers, VLEbooks. 

We do not yet have a date for this migration but we hope to have no break in service. 

You do not have to do anything, as we will manage changing the links from reading lists, the library catalogue and DISCOVER. 

You may however lose access to any notes you had saved to the Dawsonera platform itself. 

We will post more information as it becomes available. 

Top searches in DISCOVER in June

Here are the most popular search terms in DISCOVER from last month:

NewsBank special reports July 2020

NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images, maps and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. They enable users to quickly locate information while helping them gain better insight into current global issues and events.

Following is a listing of ones that may be of particular interest at this time. 
 
July Topics
World Health - Coronavirus
Issues in the News - Police and Community Relations
World Economics 
World Environment
World Politics and Government

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events
Mental Health
Space Exploration
U.S. Presidential Campaign - 2020
Natural Disasters
Science and Health in the News

Each Special Report features current and retrospective coverage with new articles added daily.  There are over 60 Reports to be sure the information you need is always available.

 

Special Reports are easily accessible from the left side bar on your online resource menu page, on search screens and the Other NewsBank Products link in full-text newspaper products.

 

This video shows you how to find Special Reports, what they are and how they can be used.