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BLC PDA E-book Pilot . ACRL/NEC May, 2013 – College of the Holy Cross. The Players from BLC. Boston College – Sally Wyman Boston University – Mary Foppiani, co-chair Brandeis University – Sherry (Charlotte) Keen Northeastern University – Scott Carlisle Tufts University – Miriam Allman
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BLC PDA E-book Pilot ACRL/NEC May, 2013 – College of the Holy Cross
The Players from BLC • Boston College – Sally Wyman • Boston University – Mary Foppiani, co-chair • Brandeis University – Sherry (Charlotte) Keen • Northeastern University – Scott Carlisle • Tufts University – Miriam Allman • University of CT – Deb Sanford, co-chair • UMass, Lowell – Joseph Fisher • Wellesley University – Graham Henderson
Collaborators • YBP • Invoicing • Profiles / de-duplication of content • ebray/YBP functionality • records • Ebrary • Content/Platform • Build Consortial PDA functionality • Reports • Records • OCLC • Records • WorldCat Local / WorldCat KB
Strategy? • Publishers/providers • Ebrary negotiated on our behalf based on our vision statement • 12 selected: Princeton University Press, University of Illinois Press, Guilford, Duke University Press, Ashgate, Wiley, ME Sharpe, Oxford University Press (excluding OSO titles), Brill, John Benjamins, Edward Elgar, National Academies Press • Content/Parameters • Must be Academic, Undergraduate, 2012 -, list price capped at $200
Strategy, more • Purchase Model • No STL • ebrary triggers (10 minutes viewed, 10 consecutive pages, any copying, printing, downloading), • SUPO • Multiplier – range 1.5x – 4.5x • Shared access/Buying club • Access issues • Discovery records • Purchased records • Free or pay • WorldCat Local / WorldCat KB
Challenges • Trigger reports • Usage reports • Channels • Duplication of content within an Institution • Overlap of content across the BLC • Data analysis • STL • ILL • More players, there are 23 BLC institutions • Energy and willpower
Learned to date- • Selection pool of 705 titles (discovery records) • 397 unique titles had been used • Of those, 143 titles had been purchased by the BLC • Total SUPO list price of books purchased via pilot (includes multiple copies) = $114,413 • Funds spent by BLC for those books = $58,963 • Data as of March 14, 2013
Next steps- • Continue the project as Phase 2 • Call for participants from BLC sent out May 7 • Hope is that 7 charter institutions will continue to participate and that at least 2-3 new participants will join the fun! • On the content side, we have asked ebrary to explore expanding our publisher partner list, maybe 2-3 more publishers to add more diverse content to the selection pool • Phase 2 to begin July 1, 2013 • Continue to gather data – analyze to tease out best practice for a shared ebook pricing model
Everybody wins – BLC, ebrary, YBP, OCLC, publishers and most important – our users
THANK YOU! All images courtesy of HikingArtist.com and HickingArtist.net Mary Foppiani | foppiani@bu.edu Science Bibliographer Boston University Deborah Sanford | deb.sanford@lib.uconn.edu Acquisitions Librarian University of Connecticut