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eBooks: New Perspectives for the access and promotion of Scıentific Information
Ankos, April 28 2010
Nuria Sauri, Electronic Products Manager, Swets
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Introducing Swets
The market and the users
How about librarians?
The SwetsWise Solution
Contents
Company introduction
Subscriptions service company, founded in 1901
Offices in more than 20 countries around the world, and business in more than 160 countries
Employs approx. 650 people
Intermediary between more than 60,000 customers and 65,000 publishers
Active in eBook business since 2006
“Yes, we want e-books but…”
BUDGETCatalog
Acquisition process
Collection development
Preservation
Responsibility
ownership
when?Promotion
The market and the users
Consumer adoption eBooks will have a huge knock-on effect within academic libraries
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, July 2010:
“Amazon currently sells more eBooks than hardcover
books. I predict we will surpass paperback sales
sometime in the next nine to 12 months.
Sometime after that, we’ll surpass the combination
of paperback and hardcover. It stuns me.”
Are we reaching the tipping point?
User behaviour may be changing in favour of reading online for “screenagers”
“This new generation is much more comfortable
with reading content from computer screens and
mobile telephones. If these findings are accurate
and if the reading devices that currently are being
developed do provide easy-to-read displays, the
electronic display may no longer be a barrier
to e-book adoption.”
Source: What Happened to the E-book Revolution?: The Gradual Integration of E-books into Academic
Libraries, Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Heather L. Wicht, Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2007, 10-3
User behavıor
How did you read the content?
Jisc National e-books observatory project. Headline findings from the user surveys . Ciber, final report, November 2009
Lenght of sessıon
Typically, how long do you think you spend reading an e‐book from a screen in one session?
Jisc National e-books observatory project. Headline findings from the user surveys . Ciber, final report, November 2009
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How about librarians?
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Librarians are struggling to keep up with all the optıons
1. Comparing pricing between vendors & available pricing options
2. Finding out which eBook titles are available
3. Comparing license conditions
4. Negotiating & signing license agreements for eBooks
5. Obtaining & analyzing usage statistics
Market suffers from a lack of transparency
Top-5 headaches for librarians regarding eBooks
Source: Customer Survey Swets, “11 Questions on eBooks”, April 2009
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The Swets proposal
Swets sees eBooks as a great opportunity
Extensive experience with
electronic content
Worldwide network of libraries
and publishers
A well-used library platform
eBooks provide a great match
with mission to simplify
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Our answer: eBooks in SwetsWise
SwetsWise is our web interface used by academic, corporate and government institutions worldwide to find, order, access and manage content
Now extended to support the acquisition and management of eBooks
SwetsWise provides a single interface for journals and eBooks, which is unique to the information industry
SwetsWise provides a single source for eBooks purchasing
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The SwetsWise eBook Procurement Portal
Our procurement catalog contains eBooks from more than 1,000 publishers and holds close to 1.000.000 titles available for individual purchase
Easily compare prices and purchase options offered by aggregators and the publisher
Daily updated with new titles
Full text-access provided by the provider of choice
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Let’s take a look
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Basic and advanced search functionalities available
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A single overview displays which vendors provide the title of interest, against which prices and price models
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Easily obtain overview of collections that include the title of interest
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Detailed bibliographic information is provided to simplify the selection process
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View collection details and title list
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To avoid unnecessary duplication costs you will be notified if you already own the title
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Add several order references to support your internal processes
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All your eBook orders available in a searchable list
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Purchase details available for all orders
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Option to limit the order budgets of your users and define an approval cycle
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A range of additional service can be integrated into SwetsWise
Collect and consolidate eBook usage stats in one environment
Integrated overview of all your journals and eBooks in an easy to use and simple list
From a single interface, users can quickly obtain relevant search results from all eBook (and journal) platforms
Seamless access to all eBook (and journal) platforms through a listing of available resources
Long-term outlook
Source: information behaviour of the researcher of the future, 11 January 2008, CIBER
“In 2017, electronic books, driven by
consumer demand, will finally become
established as the primary format for
educational textbooks and scholarly books
and monographs, as well as reference
formats.”
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