Acquiring eBooks on DemandE R & L Conference, February 2010

Ellen Safley, Ph.D

University of Texas at Dallas Libraries

Focus of Presentation

• EBL on Demand

• ebrary Pilot

University of Texas at Dallas

• The University was founded in 1969 from a research center. Originally only graduate students. Juniors and seniors were added in 1975 and freshmen were added in 1990.

• Today, nearly 16,000 students. Technology concentration.

• 36% in graduate school

• 45 Bachelor’s, 51 Master’s, and 29 doctoral programs

• About 20% of students live on campus.

The Eugene McDermott Library

Selecting eBooksOver 600,000 eBooks are loaded in the

library catalog.

Ebook History• Consortial purchasing –UT System

1999• Aggregated historical databases of

ebooks (Early English Books, ECCO)• Direct purchases with EBL• Purchasing EBL with approval vendor• Collections of ebooks (Springer)• EBL on Demand• Ebrary Pilot

Customer Selection of eBooks—EBL on Demand

• Project going for 16 months

• Profiled for Customer Selection

• Published from 2008 to present

• Specified subjects/LC classes

• Specified publishers

• Set cost limit per book

• How many uses before purchase

• Did NOT load a massive amount of records

• Established a deposit account

Usage by Subject

Records mostly match profile

• Social Sciences• H, J

• All Technology • T

• Computer Science• QA

EBL Model— Levels

• Browse• Under 10 minutes $0

• Pay-Per-View (Short Term Loan)• Set number of views before purchase

• A percentage of the purchase price

• Percentage set by publisher

• Purchase

EBL on Demand—How It Works

• Requested sample records

• Tested profile

• Began loading records in October 2008

2,400 Records Loaded

Purchase Alerts

• Purchase alert email

• Fully catalog the EBL on Demand record---– Overlay record with good record– Change local series to eBook library– Change location to eBook library– Add action note on holdings record

indicating it was purchased as an EBL on Demand title.

– Add item record which includes the purchase price.

Usage Patterns after 8 months

Browsed, $044% of use

Pay-Per-View, $3,07442% of use

Purchased, $7,67114% of use

Browsed, $0 Pay-Per-View, $3074 Purchased, $7671

Pay-Per-View vs. Purchase

Costs

• Purchases: 126 books for $11,757.84 Average: $93/book

• Pay Per View averages $14.04/book

– Example: If the book costs $100 and the pay per view costs $15, we would pay $115 to purchase the book.

– Total PPV charges are over $6,000

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Ebrary Pilot

Ebrary Pilot

• Deposit $25,000 for 6 month pilot

• Selected from over 100,000 records

• Selected by date of publication, publisher, subject, cost

• Loaded 4,881 records Oct. 28, 2009

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Summary

• Purchased 132 titles in 2 1/2 months. 644 sessions, 10,235 page views, 986 pages printed.

• $12,037 during Nov. 2009-Jan 20, 2010. • Average price $91 (EBL is $93)

• Have had to delete records as selectors order print titles or direct order ebooks.

• And All on demand selections are by our customers.

• Should probably have duplicate checked records. 8 in paper, 5 ebooks

Questions?

Ellen Safley

Senior Associate Director for Public Services, Collections, & Systems

safley@utdallas.edu

972-883-2916