National e-books study day the future of the e-book in Health and Medicine October , Manchester

 Springer  Wiley  Oxford University Press  Elsevier  EBSCO  MyiLibrary  Pip Divall – Clinical Librarian UHL  Steve Glover - Education Business Manager  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Who was there

How can I read e-books Sony Reader iPod iPadAmazon Kindle

Main messages  “Shelves can’t answer questions”  Users becoming less format focused – they simply want information  Searchable content  Digital media allows content to exist outside the book

What does it mean for libraries?  Training - information literacy – getting to grips with the variety of platforms and e- readers  Are e-books value for money?  Subcription vs Perpetual access model  Digital Rights Management

The future of e-books  EBSCO Discovery Service  Ovid – annotation  OUP – “not books, not journals but content”  Wiley – can add local trust policies and guidelines to Marsden manual  No longer will replicate the print book model

Library users demand 24/7 access, instant gratification at a click, and are increasingly looking for ‘the answer’ rather than for a particular format. So they scan, flick and ‘power browse’ their way through digital content, developing new forms of online reading on the way that we do not yet fully understand. CIBER: Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future; January 2008

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