BLC PDA E-book Pilot ACRL/NEC May, 2013 – College of the Holy Cross

The Players from BLC  Boston College – Sally Wyman  Boston University – Mary Foppiani, co-chair  Brandeis University – Sherry (Charlotte) Keen  Northeastern University – Scott Carlisle  Tufts University – Miriam Allman  University of CT – Deb Sanford, co-chair  UMass, Lowell – Joseph Fisher  Wellesley University – Graham Henderson

Collaborators  YBP Invoicing Profiles / de-duplication of content ebray/YBP functionality records  Ebrary Content/Platform Build Consortial PDA functionality Reports Records  OCLC Records WorldCat Local / WorldCat KB

Strategy?  Publishers/providers Ebrary negotiated on our behalf based on our vision statement 12 selected: Princeton University Press, University of Illinois Press, Guilford, Duke University Press, Ashgate, Wiley, ME Sharpe, Oxford University Press (excluding OSO titles), Brill, John Benjamins, Edward Elgar, National Academies Press  Content/Parameters Must be Academic, Undergraduate, , list price capped at $200

Strategy, more  Purchase Model No STL ebrary triggers (10 minutes viewed, 10 consecutive pages, any copying, printing, downloading), SUPO Multiplier – range 1.5x – 4.5x Shared access/Buying club  Access issues Discovery records Purchased records Free or pay WorldCat Local / WorldCat KB

Launched

Key players

Challenges  Trigger reports  Usage reports  Channels  Duplication of content within an Institution  Overlap of content across the BLC  Data analysis  STL  ILL  More players, there are 23 BLC institutions  Energy and willpower

Learned to date-  Selection pool of 705 titles (discovery records)  397 unique titles had been used  Of those, 143 titles had been purchased by the BLC  Total SUPO list price of books purchased via pilot (includes multiple copies) = $114,413  Funds spent by BLC for those books = $58,963  Data as of March 14, 2013

Next steps-  Continue the project as Phase 2  Call for participants from BLC sent out May 7  Hope is that 7 charter institutions will continue to participate and that at least 2-3 new participants will join the fun!  On the content side, we have asked ebrary to explore expanding our publisher partner list, maybe 2-3 more publishers to add more diverse content to the selection pool  Phase 2 to begin July 1, 2013  Continue to gather data – analyze to tease out best practice for a shared ebook pricing model

Equitable pricing model

Everybody wins – BLC, ebrary, YBP, OCLC, publishers and most important – our users

Mary Foppiani | Science Bibliographer Boston University Deborah Sanford | Acquisitions Librarian University of Connecticut THANK YOU! All images courtesy of HikingArtist.comHikingArtist.com and HickingArtist.net