Electronic Books From useless to ubiquitous

In a land before everyone's PCs had LCD monitors... Freebooks4doctors Other free ebooks (e.g.WHO, official docs) Didn’t have netlibrary

The amazing expanding ebook collection from Naff to 518,000 in 8 years

Bulk buys from major collections 2005 ACLS, EEBO/ECCO (not on catalogue), Safari (cancelled 2008), IEEE 2006 Ebrary 2007 T+F, Morgan and Claypool, Knovel, Springer, Oxford Scholarship 2008 MEMSO, CREDO reference 2009 Martinus Nijhoff, ACS, RSC, ICE, CCO, SPIE, Adam Matthew Empire collection, de Gruyter 2010 Cambridge books online, Palgrave 2011 Sciencedirect evidence driven purchasing 2012 Sage? More T+F?

Individual purchase options Ebrary 2007 M rary 2008 Dawsonera 2009 Wiley Backwe 2010 (publisher specific) not in 2011 – unformed, inadequate 2012, more publisher specific – PDA 2012?

Stats

Single user ebook cost per use –better value all the time Cost per title viewed on Aggregator (Dawsonera) since purchases began in 2009 – difficult to evaluate further, but encouraging

Bulk purchase even better bargains – at the right price Lower cost translates to cheaper cost/download. After 3 years 75% of books used – with sufficient discount, better value than selected books

Pros and Cons

DRM Accessibility issues Unreliability/impermanence Reliance on external organizations Publishers still stingy with textbooks Cons

Outsourced virtual library Value Distance access ( 11,000 online students by 2015 ) Growing popularity ( Kno student survey: 71% want to go digital, 73% would rather give up dating or sex rather than have to carry another textbook). Pros

Our electronic futures

New policy tending towards e-resource as primary purchase option More purchasing direct from publishers Patron driven acquisitions New Electronic Resource Management system

That’s us....what about you?