Ebooks? John Akeroyd Milano March 7 th 2005

Ebook Readers

Ebook Collections Subject Collections – Safari, Books 24x7 Publisher Collections – Taylor and Francis, John Wiley Aggregators – NetLibrary82,000 vol – EBL – Questia50,000 books 400,000 articles – Ebrary

Pricing Models Subscription models Library lending models Consortial deals Marketing to end users ie students Archival rights

What do users want? 24/7 availability Easily refernced and bookmarked Downloadable Collections/titles can be easily searched Integrated into work patterns/catalogues/essays etc

Benefits for Libraries Easier title management Lower space needs Lower handling costs eg processing Speed of acquisition Improved management information

What Libraries Need Discovery ( Marc cataloging records, linking) Title page and bibliographic information Title substitution in collections Coordinated decision-making between print & electronic editions for new monographs Provide usage statistics Loanable Downloadable to the hardware device of choice Segmentable

What libraries don’t need. High Levels of duplication Effort in selection

Promotion and Uptake Individual titles in reading lists versus Corpus of titles New Generation of ebooks

Criteria for Success Library chooses content (within available universe) Content is aggregated: – Single interface for critical mass of content – Full text searches across multiple resources Provider adds value: – Embedded dictionaries, authoring tools, linking – Multiple simultaneous users – remote access – Interactivity – discipline specific – Multi-media (digital audio, video, mapping, MLEs) Content is “consulted” not read