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.”

THANK YOU

nsauri@es.swets.com