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Electronic Books From useless to ubiquitous . In a land before everyone's PCs had LCD monitors. Freebooks4doctors Other free ebooks ( e.g.WHO , official docs) Didn’t have netlibrary. The amazing expanding ebook collection from Naff to 518,000 in 8 years.
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Electronic Books From useless to ubiquitous
In a land before everyone's PCs had LCD monitors... • Freebooks4doctors • Other free ebooks (e.g.WHO, official docs) • Didn’t have netlibrary
The amazing expanding ebook collectionfrom Naff to 518,000 in 8 years
Bulk buys from major collections • 2005 ACLS, EEBO/ECCO (not on catalogue), Safari (cancelled 2008), IEEE • 2006 Ebrary • 2007 T+F, Morgan and Claypool, Knovel, Springer, Oxford Scholarship • 2008 MEMSO, CREDO reference • 2009 Martinus Nijhoff, ACS, RSC, ICE, CCO, SPIE, Adam Matthew Empire collection, de Gruyter • 2010 Cambridge books online, Palgrave • 2011 Sciencedirect evidence driven purchasing • 2012 Sage? More T+F?
Individual purchase options • Ebrary 2007 • M rary 2008 • Dawsonera 2009 • Wiley Backwe 2010 (publisher specific) • not in 2011 – unformed, inadequate • 2012, more publisher specific – • PDA 2012?
Single user ebook cost per use –better value all the time Cost per title viewed on Aggregator (Dawsonera) since purchases began in 2009 – difficult to evaluate further, but encouraging
Bulk purchase even better bargains – at the right price Lower cost translates to cheaper cost/download. After 3 years 75% of books used – with sufficient discount, better value than selected books
Cons • DRM • Accessibility issues • Unreliability/impermanence • Reliance on external organizations • Publishers still stingy with textbooks
Pros • Outsourced virtual library • Value • Distance access (11,000 online students by 2015) • Growing popularity (Kno student survey: 71% want to go digital, 73% would rather give up dating or sex rather than have to carry another textbook).
New policy tending towards e-resource as primary purchase option • More purchasing direct from publishers • Patron driven acquisitions • New Electronic Resource Management system