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| Title: | The E-Book Dilemma: a Study of Aggregator and Publisher Options to Deliver Electronic Book Content |
| Authors: | Emde, Judith
Kottman, Miloche |
| Keywords: | electronic books |
| Issue Date: | 28-May-2009 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Abstract: | The University of Kansas Libraries initially experimented with electronic books through a NetLibrary purchase of around 9600 books beginning in 2002. In subsequent years, collections of reference materials and historical content have been licensed, e.g. Oxford Reference Premium; Literature Online. Confronted with an offer too good to refuse last year, the Libraries purchased Springer e-book content from 2005-2007 and negotiated to receive all future publications electronically. As the market continued to develop with additional aggregators and publishers offering content, the collection development librarian organized a study group to review the various options and packages offered. We organized trials, webinars, and on site visits for three aggregators: ebrary, EBL and MyiLibrary and reviewed how publishers were offering access to their e-books. This presentation will examine results of our study by highlighting the following issues: digital rights management, technology, interfaces, purchase/subscription options, and perpetual access. We are also interested in how academic libraries market their e-book content and plan to survey if Voyager libraries are employing features to promote e-books through their catalogs. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5233 |
| Appears in Collections: | Information Services Presentations
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