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E-Books at OhioLINK:

Expanding the Statewide Collection

Dan Gottlieb, University of Cincinnati

Karen Wilhoit, Wright State University

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OhioLINK Is:

• 90 Member Libraries• 16 public universities• 50 private colleges• 23 community and technical colleges• State Library of Ohio

• Over 600,000 Students, Faculty, and Staff

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OhioLINK Collections Include:

• 50 million books and other library materials• 100+ research databases• 17,000+ electronic journals• 81,000 e-books• Thousands of digital images, videos, and sounds• 40,000 online theses and dissertations from Ohio

students

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Why (Shared) E-Books?

• Culture of Sharing Resources• Member libraries’ collections are a shared state resource• In 2012, “P-CIRC” delivered over 600,000 items at a cost

of just under $1 million

• Shared E-Books:• Consistent with OhioLINK history of sharing resources• Have potential to reduce P-CIRC costs over time

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How Does OhioLINK Acquire E-Books?

• Rental:• Safari

• Purchase:• Oxford Scholarship Online• Springer• Wiley• YBP Pilot

• DDA:• NetLibrary• YBP Pilot

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NetLibrary

• Early experiment with DDA at consortial level• Approximately 2000-2004• Records made available via central catalog and local

catalogs as desired• Resulted in purchase of about 15,000 titles• Project terminated

• Expense – virtually all titles in pool were purchased• Concerns about print duplication and lack of predictability

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After NetLibrary

• Purchase of publisher packages• Oxford Scholarship Online• Springer

• Local purchasing of e-books growing• Concern about inability to share resources

• Desire for new approach led to ITN in April 2011• “Explore mechanisms to purchase ebook content that

would be made available to all consortia members.”• Combine community funds to create a funding pool

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YBP/Ebrary Pilot:

• Three Publishers• Ashgate/Gower (ebrary platform)• Rowman & Littlefield/Altamira/Scarecrow (ebrary platform)• Cambridge (publisher platform)

• Three Collecting Methods• Subject-Based Purchase• Profile-Based Purchase• DDA

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Pilot Implemented in Three Phases:

Phase 1:• Subject and profile-based collections from Ashgate and

Rowman & Littlefield• Titles profiled on or after April 10, 2013 added as published

Phase 2: • DDA pools from Ashgate and Rowman & Littlefield• First titles received

Phase 3:

• Cambridge University Press - date TBD

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Composition of DDA Pool:

• Ashgate and Rowman & Littlefield:• All current imprints not purchased as part of the subject-

based or profile-based collections• Retrospective pool (2011 and/or 2012 imprints) under

consideration

• Cambridge:• Current imprints not purchased as part of subject-based

or profile-based collections• Possible additional restrictions on subject areas• Retrospective pool possible, but unlikely

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DDA Pool: Purchase Triggers

For Rowman & Littlefield and Ashgate, standard Ebrary triggers will apply:

• 10 minutes spent reading• 10 page views (excluding index and TOC)• Any download, copy, or print

For Cambridge, triggers are to be determined

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Implementation Issues:

• Existing approval and DDA profiles modified:• Participating publishers set to slip or blocked

• Invoices paid out of pooled institutional funds• Bibliographic records:

• Loaded and contributed to central OhioLINK catalog• May be loaded to local catalogs if desired

• Use statistics• Accrue to consortial level• For institutional usage, records must be loaded to local

ILS

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Results So Far:

• About 80 titles purchased from Ashgate and Rowman and Littlefield• Titles purchased outright are seeing use

• First DDA titles delivered and loaded• Too early for purchase history

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Why This Structure?

• Desire to experiment with new methods of purchasing e-books for the consortia• Experience (and some dissatisfaction) with “big deal” type

purchases• Strong interest in more title-level selection• Mixed feelings about appropriateness of DDA for consortial

collecting• Concerns about buying too much (NetLibrary experience)

• Analysis will help OhioLINK determine what method best meets its needs

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Next Steps:

• Evaluation of pilot project• Usage• Expense

• Comparison with other OhioLINK e-book packages• Possible continuation, modification or expansion of pilot

• DDA only? No DDA? Profiling method?• New publishers• Additional subject areas

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Questions?

Dan Gottlieb

University of Cincinnati

Dan.gottlieb@uc.edu

Karen Wilhoit

Wright State University

Karen.wilhoit@wright.edu