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If you’ve got questions, you’ve come to the right place. Take a look at the sections below to find the help you need. Visit our 'Help Desk' for questions not addressed here.

What category of books are available on eBooksubscriptions?

The eBooksubscriptions platform has been specifically created for your reference from anywhere with an internet connection and offers access to a broad range of Taylor & Francis eBooks. 20 books have been taken from each of our most popular subject areas. There are plenty of eBooks available in subject areas not represented here, however.

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How do I read an eBook?

Choose a book by selecting the 'Browse by Subject' link on the left navigation panel. This will display a list of all the books in the catalogue along with a short description for each book. Alternatively, use the drop down search menu at the top of the page.

Once on a book that interests you, click on 'More' to read an overview of the book or Click on 'View Sample Pages' to read pre-selected pages of the book in the online DX Reader.

Once you have selected your book, Click on "Open and Read" to start reading. This will open the book in the DX Reader browser.

Please note: If you have not logged in before entering the online library, the site will ask for login authentication before opening the book.

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What is the DX Reader?

DX Reader offers online eBook reader with a wide range of intelligent reading and research facilities. One of the features is the unique 'DX Reader Research Book' – your personal compilation of notes, annotations and other research miscellany from your subscribed books.

With the DX Reader you can:

  1. Gain instant online access to content, with the advantage of sophisticated digital tools that you can exploit to personalise your reading experience.
  2. Bookmark pages, highlight text, flip through content effortlessly and search for key sections or chapters in the book.
  3. View, illustrations, charts, animated graphics; take interactive quizzes; listen to audio clips .
  4. Create your own Research Book, and add pages or chapters to it from your subscribed books.
  5. Print pages/chapters of reference.

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What are the system specifications for the DX Reader Format?

The system specifications for the DX Reader are:

  1. Internet Explorer 5.5 & above or Netscape 6 & above
  2. Minimum dial-up: 26kbps
  3. Microsoft Windows® 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows® NT4 SP3 or higher, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows Me platforms
  4. Pentium 75 or higher microprocessor
  5. 64 MB RAM
  6. VGA or higher resolution monitor and video card capable of displaying 256 or more colours
  7. Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Macintosh Platform

  1. Netscape 6.1 or later
  2. PowerPC® processor or greater processor
  3. Mac OS software version 8.0 & above
  4. 64 MB of RAM
  5. Colour palette with more than 256 colours recommended for best display

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What is 'View Sample Pages'?

The 'View Sample Pages' feature allows you to actually browse through a few sample pages of the book and get a personal insight into the book’s contents. You can then decide if whether you want to read the book or choose another book.

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Is there a time limit to a reading session?

Each reading session will last for 2 hours after which you will be redirected to the home page. A reminder prompt will be displayed on the screen ten minutes prior to the end of the 2-hour sitting. This time limit has been introduced to prevent users forgetting to logout of a title and thereby blocking access for other users for a long period of time.

If you wish to read the book again, you will have to re-login on the home page. After logging in, access to the book will depend upon the availability status of the book.

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What does 'status' of the book mean?

All the books in the online library catalogue are available for a one book per user read access. The status of a book means the availability of the book for reading.

If all the subscribed copies are currently being read,the status of title will show Unavailable.

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What is the DX Reader Research Book?

The DX Reader Research Book is a powerful user tool that helps you manage content from your subscribed books in ways appropriate for your reference needs. You may copy pages or chapters into your Research Book, but they may not be copied, used or distributed in violation of copyright rules or stipulated terms and conditions. You can also create your own notes, articles, bookmarks etc and save, print or retrieve them at your convenience.
Please note that at any given time there can be only 100 pages in the Research Book.

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Is there an easier way to locate the book of my specific reference purpose without browsing through the entire catalogue?

Of course! Use the Search feature to look for the book of your preference. You can search for the book by Title, Author, Keyword or eISBN.

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What is the eISBN search?

Every book has a specific ISBN allotted to it, a 13-digit unique number that facilitates easy identification of the book. An eISBN is the ISBN number given for eBooks.

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Do I have to login even if I just want to go through the library catalogue?

No. You can browse through the catalogue and also view sample pages of any book on the DX Reader browser without logging in. Login is necessary only when you wish to read the book online.

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Can I print chapters or pages I want to use for my research?

Yes, the DX Reader includes the ePrint feature which enables you to print selective chapters or single pages from the book of choice. Your allowance is dependent on the type of access your library has chosen. Please contact your library administrator for more information.

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Can I copy chapters or pages I want to use for my research?

Yes, the DX Reader includes the eCopy feature which enables you to copy selective chapters or single pages from the book of choice. Your allowance is dependent on the type of access your library has chosen. Please contact your library administrator for more information.

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What is Full Content Search ?

Full Content Search is a powerful search engine optimised for in-depth, full content search that uses advanced search and filter techniques to return the most incisive search results.

The Full Content Search catalogues Tables of Content, Glossaries, Bibliographies and Indexes, besides actual book content. Some of its advanced features include stemming, wildcard, proximity and category facilitating instant access to the desired section of content.

The search results will display text containing the search word or phrase, the book title and the page number of the page containing the search word or phrase.

Options :

Stemming: Looks for all possible related words after truncating the suffix or the last two or three characters of the word.

Search Operation: Qualifies your search with flexible retrieval options such as ‘or’, ‘and’, ‘proximity’ etc.

Search Type: Allows you to focus your search on a specific section like the TOC, Index etc.

Display Results: Allows you to configure the number of search results displayed per page.

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How do I use Full Content Search ?

Full Content Search is an advanced search engine that enables you to conduct a comprehensive, focused search on the entire catalogue with highly relevant results.

To use Full Content Search :

Key in the search keyword or phrase in the ‘Search’ textbox. You can use the wildcard character (*) to search for a word.
e.g. If the search text is int*, it will look for all words beginning with int like inter, internal, interior, international etc.

Check the ‘Stemming’ check box if you want Full Content Search to truncate the suffix or the last two or three characters of the word and look for all possible related words.
e.g. If the search text is communicate, it will look for communicate, communicates, communicated, communication, communications, communicator etc,


Select an appropriate eBook category.

Choose an option from the ‘Search Operation’ block; this will determine the modus operandi of the search operation.
Or : If the search text contains a phrase i.e. more than one word, Full Content Search will split it and search for lines containing each word separately.
And : If the search text contains a phrase, Full Content Search will split it and search for lines containing all the words in the phrase
Phrase : If the search text contains a phrase, Full Content Search will search for lines containing the whole phrase
Proximity : proximity search looks for content containing search terms within close proximity of each other; to configure this search parameter, define the proximity value in the ‘proximity’ textbox.

Select an option from the ‘Search Type’ drop-down to define the scope of your search.
All Content : will search the whole book for the search word or phrase
Title : will search the title (i.e. chapter) for the search word or phrase
Index : will search the index for the search word or phrase
TOC : will search the TOC page for the search word or phrase

If you would like to define the number of search results to be displayed per page, select an option from the ‘Display Results’ pane and hit the ‘Go’ button.

The search results will display the list of categories and number of books in which the search word/phrase has been located and the number of occurrences in each.

Click on any of the ‘Books’ links to view the books or click on the ‘Occurrences’ link to get a contextual listing for the specified search word/phrase.

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When I try to open a book in the DX Reader, the "Opening DX Reader in Library Mode" box opens and then freezes. What should I do?

You may have some kind of a pop-up blocker program installed on your browser like Pop-Up Stopper from Panicware (www.panicware.com), AdSubtract from Intermute (www.adsubtract.com) or the free Google toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com/) to name a few. These programs stop browser pop-ups that automatically appear on the screen without requiring an action on your part (e.g. a mouse click).

When you try to open a book in the DX Reader, the 'Opening DX Reader..,' pop-up appears before the actual Reader opens. This pop-up is used by our site to send your request to the DX Reader server. This is why, if you have the pop-up blocker enabled, the attempt to open the Reader is prematurely stopped.

If you have the Google Toolbar's pop-up blocker enabled on your browser then you can fix the problem in any of the following ways:

A. Add our site to the your pop-up blocker's 'whitelist'

  • Open our website in your browser.
  • Click the pop-up blocker button to add the site to your 'whitelist'.

The pop-up blocker will turn itself off when you visit this site.

B. Disable the pop-up blocker

  • Open the Toolbar Options window.
  • Clear the checkbox next to pop-up blocker in the Accessories section.

For more information on the Google Toolbar’s pop-up blocker feature, you may visit http://toolbar.google.com/popup_help.html.

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DX Reader does not open in Windows XP, SP2, because pop-ups are blocked. How do I enable pop-ups in XP?

When you install SP2, the Pop-up Blocker is turned on in Internet Explorer and set to the medium setting, which means it will block most automatic pop-ups. The default settings for the pop-up blocker allow you to see pop-ups that are opened when you click a link or button on a Web site.

When you click to launch the DX Reader, the Pop-up Blocker will also play a sound and show the Information Bar that the pop-up is blocked. You can adjust these settings so that Pop-up Blocker works the way you want it to.

To change Pop-up Blocker settings

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. On the Tools menu, point to Pop-up Blocker, and then click Pop-up Blocker Settings as in Fig 1.

Fig1: Pop-up Blocker Settings window

3. If you want to view all pop-ups, then click on Turn Off Pop-up Blocker.
4. To allow only a particular site to display pop-ups, click on the Information Bar when it notifies you that a pop-up has been blocked as in Fig 2. Then click on Always Allow Pop-ups From This Site…. Then close the pop-up window and click on the link again. This will launch the DX Reader.

Fig 2: Pop-up Information Bar

NOTE: To avoid further inconvenience, you are requested to turn off the pop-up blocker.

For further help or assistance, please send a mail to helpdesk@vcil.biz

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When I use a Mozilla Firefox 1.0 browser, the DXReader does not start up? Is the DX Reader compatible with Mozilla Firefox 1.0?

The DX Reader is compatible with Mozilla Firefox 1.0 browser. Please check the cookie settings of your browser. Cookies must be enabled in your Firefox browser so that you can view the book in DX Reader.

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