1. Joining the eBooks Revolution
New Opportunities for Translating Knowledge into Action
18th November 2013

2. Aims
Build insight and understanding
Engage in this dynamic area of development.
Support development of eBook Strategy to contribute to Knowledge into Action.

3. Key question for today……
How can eBooks help us to
Deliver Knowledge into Action?
Challenges and Opportunities

4. Scotland’s Digital Future
Circles of influence
2020 Vision
Scotland’s Digital Future
Efficiency and Productivity

5. Users
We read more online journal article & book chapters than we ever did in print format - in the same time.
We demand 24/7 access to content, instant gratification at a click, and look for `the answer’ rather than for a particular format, e.g. an article or monograph.
We scan, flick and `power browse’ through digital content – horizontal rather than vertical use.
CIBER Report 2012

6. Users (Continued)
Mobile users are the fastest-growing user community. Mobile visits are information 'lite': short, non-interactive, little content per visit.
20% of UK respondents have used an eBook in the past 6 months; 30% have plans to purchase one.
Bowker Global eBook monitor

7. eBook opportunities
Responding to user needs and behaviours
eBooks respond to horizontal information-seeking behaviour in digital age - “power browsing” across resources for specific answers rather than linear working through a book from start to finish.
Increasingly “the norm”.

8. From providing information to applying knowledge – Frontline practice
Knowledge into Action
From providing information to
applying knowledge –
Frontline practice
Service improvement
Service transformation.
Both needs incorporated in our national knowledge management strategy for NHSS and counterpart for social services.

9. Knowledge into Action: eBook Opportunities

10. Technology-Enabled Learning
Integrated access to online knowledge and learning for health and social services workforce.
Delivering knowledge in actionable formats:
Mobile solutions
Handbooks
Quick reference resources
Rapid evidence searches

11. Knowledge Network Content
Content and subscriptions review:
Realign with users’ needs
Address publishers’ price increases

12. Current Knowledge Network Subscriptions

13. Knowledge Network Content Review: eBook Opportunities

14. Future of Knowledge Network
Important Very Important Online library 90% 56% eLearning/Multimedia Platform 80% 37% Point of Care 76% 32% Knowledge (evidence summaries, clinical systems, mobile)
N=1664

15. Widening Knowledge Network usage
Books vs Journals
Hospital
Medicine
Low
High
AHPs
Nursing
Primary Care Contractors
Focus of
2020 Workforce Vision
Support Workers
Low
High

16. Knowledge into Action Supporting wider Public Services
Contributing to “whole system” transformation

17. Public Services Reform: Digital Enablement
2020 Vision
“By 2020 everyone is able to live longer healthier lives at home, or in a homely setting…… We will have a healthcare system where we have integrated health and social care, a focus on prevention, anticipation and supported self management.”
Scotland’s Digital Future:
Digital Health & Care
Smart Mobility
Digital participation

18. eBook opportunities
Integrated access to knowledge across public services settings – NHS, public libraries, education etc.
Efficiencies through collaborative purchasing across sectors.
Enabling access and support through links with eHealth and digital strategy.

19. Opportunities for Librarians
Digital library intermediaries – “knowledge brokers”.
Awareness
Enabling access – organisation and description.
Quality assurance
Enabling use - training and user support
Collaboration with users

20. Summing up
Joining the eBooks Revolution is essential to Knowledge into Action – locally and nationally:
Reach new users
Support new user needs
New routes to embed knowledge in frontline practice.
Provide integrated knowledge support across public services – “whole system” approach
Achieve efficiencies through collaborative purchasing
Build knowledge broker role as “digital intermediary” .

21. Joining the eBooks Revolution
New Opportunities for Translating Knowledge into Action
18th November 2013