ebooks in academic libraries ccl 2008
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The Great ( )omission:
Things we need to know about e-books (that they didn’t tell us or haven’t figured out)
Jason Price, PhDLife Sciences LibrarianClaremont Univ. Consortium
Go out into all the world and acquire e-books (?!)
Christian College Librarians ConferenceMay 29, 2008 Pepperdine University
Genesis of this talk
• (Remember Caviat)
Outline
• Why and why not?• From whom and to where?• Evaluation aspects
– Pricing Models– Collection Profiles– Use Rights (DRM)– Interface Usability & Features
• Next steps & Implications– Immediate– Future
Why? (I’ve got a list, but want to hear yours)
1. ____2. ____3. ____
Why not?
1. _____2. _____3. _____
From whom and to where?
• from publishers directly?• From a Book Jobber?• From an aggregator?• Reality =
• To OPAC? • To publisher platform?• To (a single) aggregator
platform?• To a universal ebook platform?
Conclusion: From whom and to where
• From: anywhere as long as the destination is flexible
• To: as few places as possible• Need to emphasize flexibility for
purchases or… look to lease access
Evaluation: Pricing Models
• Packaged Collections • Title by Title• Lease entire collection• Patron-driven purchase• Consortial collections (?)
Rough ComparisonModel EBL Ebrary My I
LibraryNet Library
Lease NO YES NO NO
Purchase (Unlimited Usrs)
YES(limit is borrow period)
YES(?)(No dwnload
NO1 or (2-3)
NO1 or 2
Patron- driven purchase
YES2nd ‘use’
Coming YES1st view
YES1st view
Title by title Yes Yes Yes Yes
What else(Swap?)
Evaluation: Collection profiles
• Age• ‘Uniqueness’• Match to local collection• Quality (?)
Collection Age as of 04-2008
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
18000
earlier 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Publication Date
Nu
mb
er o
f E
bo
oks
EbraryAll = 62969
EbraryAC = 38250
MyILib = 93672
EBL = 65535
Collection Profiles: Age
"Uniqueness"
Titles in all 3, 27469, 21%
Titles only in 2, 38513, 31%Unique to EBL,
14349, 11%
Unique to EBR, 15986, 12%
Unique to MyI, 32214, 25%
Match to the local collections: Claremont Purchased Print titles (FY 2007 and 2008)
vs. ebook availability (from all 3 vendors)
ISBN13 Unmatched Titles, 8580,
43%
(ISBN 10 titles), 9355,
46%
Other, 10814, 54%
ISBN13 Matched
titles, 2234, 11%
(20.6%)
(79.4%)
Evaluation: Use rights
• Simultaneous Use• Copy & Paste/Print• Download• E-reserves / Course
Mngmt• Course Packs• Interlibrary Loan
Use Rights ComparisonRights EBL Ebrary My I
LibraryNet Library
Download YES NO Depends on Pub
MOSTLY ???
Copy&Paste/Print
YES YES10pp/40pp
NOPage at a time
NOPage at a time
Ereserve /Course packs
YES YES Unknown Unknown
ILL ? ? ? ?
Simultaneoususe
YES YES Limited Limited
Interface usability
• Delivery units• Simultaneous use• Navigation
Interface features
• Full text search • Hit term highlighting• Extraction (text & images)• Web services
– External lookups (Dict/Ency)– Export Citation (unit?)
• Personalization– Hilighting– Notes
Next steps (for us)
• Lease Ebrary Academic Complete
• Buy “Multigraphs” (Edited volumes?) as e-only
Implications for the future
• And end to librarian collection development
• Buy them buy the chapter?
• Figure out how to possess the contents
Conclusions (What have we learned?)
1. ___2. ___3. ___
Outstanding questions:
• E-book ordering profiles?• How will they be found?• Features ≠ Effectiveness