Question: Why am I getting a "Your connection is not private" error message when connecting to an eBook?
 

Certain eBooks when accessed through Discovery may display the below error message when you try to connect to them;

The library no longer subscribes to the DawsonEra database but unfortunately some old links have not yet updated and this is why you get the above error message. It is likely we do still have the eBook but you just need to access it outside of Discovery, you can do this in two ways;

1. Search the Catalogue for the book, on the book record page there will be a green "Connect to EBook here" button towards the bottom of the page if it is available.

2. You can search the individual eBook databases, the VLeBooks database was bought to replace the old DawsonEra one so this would be the best one to check first. 

If you still can't access the eBook you can get in touch with us by clicking the speech bubble at the bottom right of the page.

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