Academic E-Books Stepping up to the Challenge / edited by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nixon, Judith M., editor.

Freeman, Robert S., editor.

Ward, Suzanne M., editor.

Series:

Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences.

Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic libraries--United States--Case studies.

Academic libraries.

Libraries and electronic publishing.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

Academic libraries--Collection development.

Libraries--Special collections--Electronic books.

Libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences. Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users' experiences with scholarly works"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Publishers' and vendors' products and services

An industry perspective: publishing in the digital age / Nadine Vassallo

The journey beyond print: perspectives of a commercial publisher in the academic market / Rhonda Herman

The university press perspective on e-books in libraries: production, marketing, and legal challenges / Tony Sanfilippo

Delivering American Society for Microbiology e-books to libraries / Christine B Charlip

Platform diving: a day in the life of an academic e-book aggregator / Bob Nardini

Librarians' challenges

University of California, Merced: primarily an electronic library / Jim Dooley

Patron-driven acquisitions: assessing and sustaining a long-term PDA e-book program / Karen S. Fischer

Use and cost analysis of e-books: patron-driven acquisitions plan vs librarian-selected titles / Suzanne M. Ward & Rebecca A. Richardson

E-books across the consortium: reflections and lessons from a three-year DDA experiment at the Orbis Cascade Alliance / Kathleen Carlisle Fountain

The simplest explanation: Occam's reader and the future of interlibrary loan and e-books / Ryan Litsey, Kenny Ketner, Joni Blake, & Anne McKee

Developing a global e-book collection: an exploratory study / Dracine Hodges

Users' experiences

A social scientist uses e-books for research and in the classroom / Ann-Marie Clark

The user experience of e-books in academic libraries: perception, discovery and use / Tao Zhang & Xi Niu

E-book reading practices in different subject areas: an exploratory log analysis / Robert S. Freeman & E. Stewart Saunders

Library e-book platforms are broken: let's fix them / Joelle Thomas & Galadriel Chilton

Case studies

A balancing act: promoting Canadian scholarly e-books while controlling user access / Ravit H. David

Of Euripides and e-books: the digital future and our hybrid present / Lidia Uziel, Laureen Esser, & Matthew Connor Sullivan

Transitioning to e-books at a medium-sized academic library: challenges and opportunities: a feasibility study on psychology collection / Aiping Chen-Gaffey

E-books and a distance education program: a library's failure rate in supplying course readings for one program / Judith M. Nixon

Mobile access to academic e-book content: a Ryerson investigation / Naomi Eichenlaub & Josephine Choi

E-reader checkout program / Vincci Kwong & Susan Thomas

Out with the print and in with the e-book: a case study in mass replacement of a print collection / Stephen Maher & Neil Romanosky

Epilogue / Michael Levine-Clark

Contributors.

Notes:

Project MUSE Open Access

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-55753-894-8

1-61249-429-3

1-61249-428-5

OCLC:

932332543

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access