1. E-book usage in the CEU-Library PRESENTED BY KRISZTINA KŐRÖSI AND IVETT MOLNAR

2. Sources  E-book databases: ACLS, OSO (6 areas)  E-books in other collections: Business Source Complete, CIAO, OECD Taxation, Science Direct, Westlaw UK  Free E-book collections: Internet Archive, Google Books, Gutenberg Projects, Deutsche Digital Bibliothek, DOAB  Individual purchase: DawsonBooks, Netlibrary (EBSCO), Ebrary (Proquest)

3. Why e-books?  Different models of purchasing  IP-based  Single or Multiuser access  Integrated into Discovery tools  MARC record, usage reports  Required readings – departmental demand

4. E-book suppliers DawsonBooks Access Credit 400/book/year Automatically renewed Ebrary (Proquest) SUPO: 1 title MUPO: 19 titles Netlibrary (EBSCO) 1U: 9 titles 3U: 15 titles UU: 21 titles

5. Usage of e-books SupplierNo. of titlesHits (2013)Method of download DawsonBooks 740whole book Ebrary 20295page by page Netlibrary 4545395page by page

6. Kindle in ILL  7 Kindles, cca. 50 Kindle books  ILL-request is fulfilled on Kindle if:  Patron accepts this form of ILL  Not available from other ILL-resources  Price is reasonable  Appropriate format (Epub, Mobi)  Usage of Kindle:  Borrowable for 1+1 week  No up/downloading  No patron’s device

7. What do the usage stats show us?  For comparison we have chosen Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO)– very similar to Springer E-books – nice interface, chapters can be downloaded in Pdfs, covered by web scale discovery services. In OSO abstracts are available at both book and chapter level.  We subscribe (!) to six modules in OSO – Business and Management, Economics and finance, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion.

8. What do the usage stats show us? In the 6 modules - over 5400 titles The percentage of the titles used: 12.68 % - Business and Management module - 11% - Economics and Finance – 11% - History – 10% - Philosophy – 16% - Political Science – 26% - Religion module – 7%

9. What do the usage stats show us?  Question – Is it really worth purchasing/subscribing to predefined collections?  Answer : yes.  Why? Cost/use of OSO - 2.7 EUR - which is quite ok. Well known issue justified by numbers: only a small portion of titles used in predefined collections but these items are used many times.

10. Pre-defined e-book collections are ok  Springer E-books - The usage statistics for the trial in 2013 show that at CEU only the 10 % of the titles were used. It is very similar to the usage of OSO.  But the number of successful section request was 2084 in 3 months – and we did not make a huge advertising campaign for the Springer E-books trial – we posted it on our website in the News sections.  Huge advantage of the Springer E-books deal – it is not a subscription but a one-off fee and we own the content forever.

11. Thanks very much for your kind attention!