Reinventing the Library in the 21st century

E-textbooksGale Cengage Learning

Alice BellasichSales Representative Southern EuropeAnkos 2011

Why E-Textbook Collections?

Digitized bestselling Textbooks

Always available

Positive response from market

Why E-Textbook Collections?Response to market needs

Students dissatisfied with availability (short loan model)No support for distance learners

Vandalism

Library & professors

Libraries purchases E- textbooks:

professors coordinate with thelibrary recommendingE-textbooks titles

Why E-Textbook Collections?

By purchasing E-textbooks, the libraryfrees students from having to payfor their textbook

Library offers additional service toStudents

E-textbooks as a REFERENCE tool

Why E-Textbook Collections?

Key benefitsCollections of bestseller textbooksmulti-disciplinaryUnlimited simultaneous usersAccess 24/7 remote accessMARC records

Purchase modelFull-text search across entire collectionsNo reader requiredNotesPersonal accountPrintDownloadSave in PDFAccess via My I Library platform

Key benefits

Core collection: 23 bestselling titlesPsychology Marketing Communication & MediaGovernment & Politics Arts & Music

Pick-and-mix: 10 or 20 E-textbooks from the complete list of over 100 titles Collections

e-textbook selected highlightsCalculus James Stewart

Introduction to Psychology - Atkinson & Hilgard's

Gardeners Art Through The Ages - Kleiner

Economics special edition Mankiw/Taylor

Marketing, European Edition - Dibb

Strategic Management - Thompson

Communicate! Verderber

Introductory Econometrics - Wooldridge

Q&AsHow does access work?Collections are available online on site license in perpetuity all students can access all textbooks at anytime and from anywhere

Can students print/highlight/annotate?Students can highlight and annotate, cross-search across the collection and browse the book. There is also print functionality

Is MyLibrary Athens/UK Federation Mgt authenticated? Yes, customers can authenticate via Athens and Shibboleth

Can libraries integrate the collections into their catalogue (OPAC)?Yes, MyiLibrary provides MARC Records when the order is processed

Thank you

Alice.Bellasich@cengage.com

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