Transcript NetLibrary eBooks & Audiobooks

Ingolf Kaspar, Regional Sales Manager Databases
[email protected]
Agenda
1. Content portfolio
2. Interface. Migration to EBSCOhost live 17.03.2011
3. Flexible business models
4. How to place orders: Titleselect, Custom Collection,
Subject Sets etc
5. Lund Online Q&A
1. Content Portfolio
Content – eBooks
• Currently around 600 partnering publishers
• Almost 300.000 titles and plans for a strong influx of new
publishers and titles.
• Actively started to license European publishers and Nordic
publishers are on the target list.
• EBSCO has a very active content licensing department and
projects to increase the list of available titles by cirka 5.000
new titles/month
Sample Participating Academic eBook Publishers
• ABC-CLIO
• Compendium Publishing
• Elsevier LTD.
• AMACOM Books
• Continuus
• Emereo Pty Ltd.
• Ashgate
Publishing Limited
• Course PTR
• F.A. Davis
• CRC Press
• FW Media, Inc.
• Davies-Black Publishing
• Greenwood
Publishing Group
• Berrett Koehler
• Cambridge eText
• Cambridge
University Press
• Columbia
University Press
• Dorling Kindersley
• Edinburgh
University Press
• Edward Elgar
Publishing, Inc.
• Guilford
Publications, Inc.
• IGI Global
• Information Today
Sample Participating Academic eBook Publishers
• Jist Publishing
• MIT Press
• Salem Press
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
(US)
• Nova Science
Publishers, Inc
• Sourcebooks, Inc.
• John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
(UK)
• Oxford
University Press
• Kogan Page
• Palgrave Macmillan
(UK)
• Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, Inc.
• LSU Press
• McGraw-Hill
Professional
• Pearson Publishing
• Rowman
& Littlefield
• Sage Publications, Ltd.
• Springer Science
& Business Media
• SUNY Press
• Taylor & Francis
Routledge
• Wiley-VCH
Verlag GmbH
• Yale University Press
• Zed Book
Sample Participating Public Library eBook Publishers
• A & C Black
Publishers Ltd.
• AMACOM Books
• Career Press
• Course Technology
PTR
• Davies-Black Publishing
• Happy About
• Kogan Page
• HarperCollins
• McGraw-Hill
International (UK) Ltd.
• How To Books, Ltd
• Jist Publishing
• John Wiley & Sons (CAN)
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (US)
• McGraw-Hill
Professional
• Nomad Press
• Penguin
• Dorling Kindersley
• John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
(UK)
• Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Electronic & Database
Publishing, Inc.
• Kaplan Publishing
• Summersdale
Publishers Ltd.
Content – Audiobooks
• More than 17.000 eAudiobooks
• Fiction
• Language study programs
• Academic Literature
2. Migration to EBSCOhost
Select any combination of databases,
eBook & Audiobook Collections for searching
Also offers advanced searching
And the ability to browse eBooks…
Integrated Search Results
Powerful options to refine & expand searches
Access Full Text, Download, See TOC from Result List
Result List
with TOC open
Detail Record
Detail Record
showing TOC
Viewer
Search Within
Search Results
Printing
Taking Notes
All Notes for This eBook
Dictionary
3. Flexible Business Models
Expanded Business Models – eBooks
eBook
Target Release
Purchase: Single User
Purchase: Three User NEW
7/1/2011
Purchase: Unlimited User NEW
7/1/2011
Subscription NEW
7/1/2011
Lease NEW
2nd Half 2011
Enhanced PDA NEW
2nd Half 2011
• Online
Online vs. Offline Access
– Online access without additional cost. Simultaneous user limitations.
• Downloading and offline use
– Requires Adobe Content Server (ACS) license
– Library pays an annual license fee to EBSCO.
– Patrons install freeware Adobe Digital Editions.
4. How to place orders etc
1. Selecting titles through online catalog,
bit.ly/titleselect
2. Subject Sets,
bit.ly/subjectsets
3. Recommendation Lists
4. Custom Collections
5. Patron Driven Acquisition,
6. New Collection Development Tool
bit.ly/patrondriven
New Collection Development Tool – Landing Page
New Collection Development Tool – Browse
Note: Pricing examples
are random
New Collection Development Tool – Search Results
Note: Pricing examples
are random
New Collection Development Tool – Detail Record
Note: Pricing examples
are random
New Collection Development Tool – Detail Record
Note: Pricing examples
are random
5. Lund questions for vendors
1. What type of resources do you offer on your plattform?
We offer over 300,000 eBooks and Audiobooks
from over 600 publishers.
Also databases, access to e-journal subscriptions,
Discovery Service on the same interface.
2. Are the ebooks available as a package or as single titles
only?
For purchase as package AND single titles.
For subscription as package.
3. Do you allow course-packs.
We do not allow the books to be printed in total and
copied for course-packs.
We will however introduce a leasing option to provide
libraries a cost efficient access to multiple book copies
for courses.
4. Do you allow ILL and walk-in users?
We do not allow ILL, but we do allow walk-in users.
We will offer a leasing option for libraries to have cost
effective temporary access to books as an alternative to
ILL.
5. Do users need special software installed to access and
read your ebooks?
No special software needed; just an internet connection
6. What is the allowed percentage in printing and copying
per ebook?
Users can print or copy up to 60 pages per book per session.
7. Can the ebooks be downloaded to a PDA or hand-held
computer?
Many ebooks can be downloaded to a ebook reading device or
computer. The library has to pay a small yearly fee to offer this
service.
8. Can a copy of the ebook be downloaded to a local
server?
Yes, but it will expire with the checkout period set by the library and
printing/copying will be restricted.
9. What type of lending model for the ebooks do you use
on your platform?
Libraries purchase with perpetual access. Patrons checkout titles for
a limited time (determined by the library)
10. Are the latest editions of your ebooks offered and will
they be updated when a new edition is available?
We do offer latest editions but they are not updated automatically.
Libraries will have to re-purchase new titles.
11. Do you provide MARC records for individual titles free
of charge?
Yes, MARC records are free of charge.
12. Can the ebooks be integrated into federated search
systems or services, i.e. metasearching or cross-database
searching?
Yes, eBooks can be integrated with federated search.
13. Do you allow data mining?
We do not allow data mining.
14. Do you offer metadata for Table of Contents for
journals and ebooks?
We offer views of the TOC, but not in the metadata.
15. Are Counter statistics available? If not, what kind of
statistics do you offer?
Counter statistics will be available beginning in July.
16. Do you provide metadata to discovery services such as
Ebsco Discovery Service, Summon (Serial Solutions) and
Primo Central (Exlibris)?
All eBook data is accessible through EBSCO Discovery Service.