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The Impact of DRM Restrictions on E-Book Usage in Academic Libraries

Explore how DRM affects the usage of e-books in academic libraries. Comparison of platforms, usage scores over time, and DRM grades methodology analyzed. Contact Tara Cataldo and Trey Shelton for more information.

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The Impact of DRM Restrictions on E-Book Usage in Academic Libraries

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  1. Academic E-Books: Do DRM Restrictions Effect Usage? Tara Cataldo Trey Shelton

  2. Where is Trey?

  3. Background • University of Florida • Large land, sea and space grant institution • 50,000 students, 4,000 faculty, 16 colleges • George A. Smathers Libraries • ARL • 7 libraries • $11.6 M materials budget (including endowments) • E-books • 39 E-book platforms

  4. DRM “Digital Rights Management technology offers the ability to control the distribution and use of the intellectual property (including media/content) and thereby protect the associated revenue or investment for the digital content businesses.” Pallavi Shah, “Digital Rights Management,” in Encyclopedia of Multimedia, ed. BorkoFurht. (New York, NY: Springer, 2006), 188-195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30038-4.

  5. DRM grades

  6. DRM Grades

  7. Methodology • COUNTER usage gathered • Comparing platforms • Divided use over one year by the number of e-books used • to derive average number of uses per used e-book • Example: Books24x7 usage in 2014 • Usage/number of books used • 96,370 / 2,770 = 35 • Score = 35

  8. Usage Scores

  9. Usage scores

  10. Usage Over Time

  11. Usage Over Time

  12. DRM

  13. Thank you Tara Tobin Cataldo Science Collections Coordinator ttobin@ufl.edu Trey Shelton E-Resources Librarian tshelton@ufl.edu

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