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1 online resource (iii, 360 pages) : illustrations. |
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Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences
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Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Publishers' and vendors' products and services -- An industry perspective : publishing in the digital age / Nadine Vassallo -- Journey beyond print : perspectives of a commercial publisher in the academic market / Rhonda Herman -- Production, marketing, and legal challenges : the university press perspective on e-books in libraries / 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 and 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 -- Simplest explanation : Occam's reader and the future of interlibrary loan and e-books / Ryan Litsey, Kenny Ketner, Joni Blake, and 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 -- User experience of e-books in academic libraries : perception, discovery and use / Tao Zhang and Xi Niu -- E-book reading practices in different subject areas : an exploratory log analysis / Robert S. Freeman and E. Stewart Saunders -- Library e-book platforms are broken : let's fix them / Joelle Thomas and 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, and 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 and Josephine Choi -- E-reader checkout program / Vincci Kwong and Susan Thomas -- Out with the print and in with the e-book : a case study in mass replacement of a print collection / Stephen Maher and Neil Romanosky -- Epilogue / Michael Levine-Clark -- Contributors. |
| 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. |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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Libraries -- Special collections.
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Libraries -- Special collections. |
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Academic libraries -- Collection development.
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Academic libraries -- Collection development. |
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Scholarly electronic publishing.
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Scholarly electronic publishing. |
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Libraries and electronic publishing.
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Libraries and electronic publishing. |
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Academic libraries -- United States -- Case studies.
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Academic libraries. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Ward, Suzanne M., editor.
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Freeman, Robert S., editor.
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Nixon, Judith M., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ward, Suzanne M. Academic E-Books : Publishers, Librarians, and Users. : Purdue University Press, ©2015 9781557537270 |
| ISBN |
9781612494289 (electronic book) |
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1612494285 (electronic book) |
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9781612494296 (electronic book) |
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1612494293 (electronic book) |
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9781557537270 (electronic book) |
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1557537275 (electronic book) |
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1557538948 |
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9781557538949 |
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