PD session: E-books Mobility

Presented by: E-Book Committee

Learning Outlines

• Mobile device requirements• Hardware & Software Checklist• Format <> DRM <> Hardware <> Software• Publisher <> Aggregator <> Vendor• Library Collections

– Timeline: E-book and online AV resources

– Browse and Search

• Hands-on exercise for mobile device– How to … guides

How to download/view e-book in mobile device?

Mobile device requirements

• Wireless / 3G network• Software applications

– Internet browse– Mobile app

Hardware & Software Checklist

• Does your device supports the e-book?– What is the e-book format? (PDF/ePub/HTML)

– Any DRM restriction? (Apple/Amazon/B&N/Adobe)

– What software is required? (Bluefire reader)

• Does library supports your device?– What is your device? (Apple/Android/Kindle)

– What software does it have? (Bluefire reader, Internet browser, Adobe reader)

Format <> DRM <> Hardware <> Software

FormatIdentify file format & file extension

• PDF• HTML• ePub • .mobi (Kindle)• .azw; .kf8 (Kindle-DRM) • .lit (Microsoft reader)• .rtf • .pdg (Superstar – Chinese)

DRM (Digital rights management)Identify vendor and DRM scheme

• Adept - Adobe Content Server (ACS) • Amazon• Barnes & Noble (credit card no. as id)• Fairplay (Apple)

DRM example: EBL, Ebscohost File extension - “.acsm”

SoftwareDownload and install

• Adobe Digital Editions [PC/Mac]• Bluefire (Android & Apple)• iBook (Apple)• Aldiko (Android)• Adobe reader (Android)• Calibre (open source)

HardwareFamiliarise with multiple platforms

• iPad / iPhone (Apple)• Smartphones (Android)• Tablets • Kindle (Amazon)• Sony readers• Kobo (Rakuten)• Nook (B&N)

Library Collections

• Know your library e-books

• Identify file formats

• Identify DRM schemes

• How to download to mobile devices

Library Collections

• Know your library e-books

• Identify file formats

• Identify DRM schemes

• How to download to mobile devices

Publisher <> Aggregator <> Vendor

PublisherWhere the e-book originated from

• ACS• ASM• Cambridge University Press• CRC• Elsevier• Gale• IEEE• Oxford University Press• RSC• Springer• Wiley• World Scientific

AggregatorProvides website/platform access to various e-books from publishers

• EBL• ebrary• Ebscohost• Knovel• MyiLibrary• Proquest• Referex• Safari• Apabi• Superstar

Vendor A company representing various publishers, usually provides services, liaison, sale, IT support between the publishers and customers

• YBP [Baker & Taylor]• Infohost [iGroup]• Swets

User license

Mode of access

Subscription Purchase PDA

Number of users can access at any one time

• Single user [ebrary, Ebscohost, Handbook of Pragmatics (via Citrix), MyiLibrary, Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (via OVID)]• 3 users [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Art Online]• 5 users [Safari, Cambridge-textbook type]• 60 users [Wiley-IEEE via IEEEXplore]• Unlimited use

User license

Mode of access

Subscription Purchase PDA

Number of users can access at any one time

• Single user [ebrary, Ebscohost, Handbook of Pragmatics (via Citrix), MyiLibrary, Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (via OVID)]• 3 users [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Art Online]• 5 users [Safari, Cambridge-textbook type]• 60 users [Wiley-IEEE via IEEEXplore]• Unlimited use

Library CollectionsTimeline: E-book and online AV resources

2002 NetLibrary (aka Ebscohost e-books), CRCnetBase, Wiley Interscience Online Books

2003 Safari Tech Books Online, Proquest Digital Dissertations, ASM handbooks Online & Alloy Center

2004 Knovel

2005 Referex (via Engineering Village), Oxford English Dictionary online, Oxford Reference Online Premium, Oxford Dictionary National Biography, Elsevier, SourceOECD (aka OECD iLibrary), Grove Art online, MIT CogNet, Springer

2006 Science of Synthesis

2007 Apabi, Superstar, Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

2008 Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science, Handbook of Pagmatics

2009 Emerald Book Series - Business, Management and Accounting

2010 ebrary, Encyclopaedia of Islam 2nd and 3rd ed., British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries: 1500 to 1950, Early English books online: EEBO, ICE-Eurocodes Collection, IEEE-Wiley e-books, Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins (RSC), ACS Symposium SeriesJazz Music Library - Music Online (Alexander Street Press-AV), 50 Lessons (AV)

2011 Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO I &II), SpringerMaterials, MyiLibrary, EBLAsia Pacific Film Online (AV)

2012 Geological Society of London (Lyell Complete Collection), Geological Society of America (GSA), The Papers of Lee Kuan Yew: Speeches, Interviews and Dialogues, 2012 (via GVRL platform), Cambridge University Press, American Geophysical Union (AGU), ICE e-books, Sage knowledgeEthnographic Video Online (AV)

2013 iSmithers Rapra, Momentum Press, Elsevier-Clinical Medicine Collections, Oxford Medicine Online, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins - Medical Collection 2011, World Scientific, Edward Elgar, Project Muse, Elsevier ClinicalKeyOnline Animation Library (AV), OUP-BBC College of Journalism (AV)

Library CollectionsBrowse by e-book collection•Go to: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/ebooks/series/

 

Search •Go to: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/ebooks/Pages/default.aspx

•You can search e-book by title, author or keyword via the search box (OneSearch platform)

Hands-on ExerciseHow to … guides

• Bluefire app (Apple & Android)• iBook app (Apple)• Ebscohost e-books• Highlight available e-book apps and mobile sites