BLC PDA E-book Pilot

ACRL/NEC May, 2013 – College of the Holy Cross

The Players from BLC

Boston College – Sally WymanBoston University – Mary Foppiani, co-

chairBrandeis University – Sherry (Charlotte)

KeenNortheastern University – Scott CarlisleTufts University – Miriam AllmanUniversity of CT – Deb Sanford, co-chairUMass, Lowell – Joseph FisherWellesley University – Graham Henderson

CollaboratorsYBP

• 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, 2012 -,

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 reportsUsage reportsChannelsDuplication of content within an InstitutionOverlap of content across the BLCData analysisSTL ILLMore players, there are 23 BLC institutionsEnergy and willpower

Learned to date-

Selection pool of 705 titles (discovery records)397 unique titles had been usedOf those, 143 titles had been purchased by the

BLCTotal SUPO list price of books purchased via pilot

(includes multiple copies) = $114,413Funds spent by BLC for those books = $58,963 Data as of March 14, 2013

Next steps-

Continue the project as Phase 2Call for participants from BLC sent out May 7Hope 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, 2013Continue 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 | foppiani@bu.eduScience Bibliographer Boston University

Deborah Sanford | deb.sanford@lib.uconn.eduAcquisitions LibrarianUniversity of Connecticut

THANK YOU!

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