E-Books

120,000 ebrary Academic Complete titles now available

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Through an Orbis Cascade subscription, we now have access to about 120,000 ebooks in the ebrary Academic Complete collection.  These books are discoverable either through UW Libraries Search or the ebrary link under Article and Research Databases — until duplication issues in Alma can be fixed, they will not be discoverable in UW Worldcat.  Our holdings are not reflected in YBP’s Gobi.

While the ebrary Academic Complete collection is primarily backlist, some publishers offer their frontlist titles as well, so selectors wishing to conserve precious monograph money may want to consult the ebrary database when weighing a possible purchase.  If it’s important to know whether a given ebrary title is owned outright or accessed only via subscription, go to http://site.ebrary.com/lib/academiccompletetitles/home.action to see only the Academic Complete titles, with our owned ebrary titles filtered out.

All Academic Complete titles have unlimited simultaneous users, 14 day checkouts/downloads, and permalinks which can be imbedded in course software.

 

Trial: ebrary Academic Complete

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Academic Complete is a multidisciplinary database of over 108,000 scholarly e-books from a variety of university and commercial presses.  This subscription is being considered by Orbis Cascade as a backlist supplement to its shared Demand-Driven Acquisitions e-book purchase program.

URL: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uwash1

Quick Start User Guide:  www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral/en/Quick_Guides/Quick_Guide.pdf

Trial ends: July 6, 2014

New concurrent access model for EBSCOHost ebooks

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EBSCO has announced a new Concurrent Access Model for some of its ebooks, which will appear as CAMO on Gobi slips.  EBSCO CAMO

These titles are like EBL Non-linear Lending titles, meaning there is no limit to the number of users that can view a title simultaneously, but there is a maximum of 365 “loans” per year.  A “loan” occurs whenever more than 10 pages are viewed or the book is browsed online for more than 10 minutes; or if printing or downloading has occurred.

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YBP has recently made it easier to see if a given title is part of the Orbis Cascade Alliance Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) program.  Orbis Cascade now appears at the top of the GobiTween list, and if a book will be available through DDA, it will show as an Electronic Slip.  See this example.

 

 

Ebook packages, Alma, and WorldCat Local

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Since May 22, 2013, when we migrated from Innovative, changes to content in our e-book packages such as Project MUSE and our Alliance and UW DDA programs have not shown in Alma because of Network Zone issues.  These changes include titles added since May 22, as well as any deleted content to which we no longer have access.  With the switch to WorldCat Local, users can now see this previously undiscoverable content while avoiding dead links for removed content.  Until the Alma issues are resolved, UW Libraries Search beta (Primo) will not display the most accurate information about e-book package titles.  Note that this problem only affects e-book packages; individual firm-ordered e-books should appear correctly in Alma, Primo, and UW WorldCat.

Project MUSE ebooks now available

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We have purchased the complete Project MUSE/UPCC ebook collection which gives DRM-free, unlimited access to more than 20,000 ebooks from over 80 university presses and scholarly publishers, including the UW Press.  Publication dates are from 2000 and will continue through the end of 2013.  The titles appear in the local catalog and UW Worldcat, and are hosted on the Project MUSE platform.  For more information, visit the Project MUSE ebook site at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/UPCC.html.

 

 

Oxford e-book pricing

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Oxford has recently changed some of its pricing for e-books offered by aggregators.  In some cases, you will now see Oxford titles offered through EBL costing up to 4 times the price of single-user options in ebrary or EbscoHost, because EBL gives limited multi-user access through its Non-linear Lending option.  Now that we can get limited multi-user access for ebrary titles through the Extended Access program (see previous post), buying an ebrary SUPO title may be a better option in these cases than EBL.

Multi-user access for ebrary SUPO titles

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ebrary now offers an “Extended Access” option for its single user (SUPO) titles.  When a title is in use and a second user tries to access it, instead of being turned away the user will be given 24-hour access via a short-term loan (STL).  If this situation happens 3 times, an additional SUPO copy will be purchased automatically.  For now, “Extended Access” is being financed by a central fund in the Seattle Main budget.

Some Wiley electronic books are DRM free, allow unlimited users

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Wiley has two categories of e-books, with different platforms and access models.

  1. Wiley Online Library: “O-books”.  These appear in Gobi as being offered on the Wiley Online Library platform.  They are DRM-free and have unlimited simultaneous user access.  Gobi example: Genetics for Dummies.
  2. Wiley E-books.  These are offered through aggregators such as EBL and ebrary.  They have DRM and more restricted access, such as single user or limited multiple user.    Gobi example: Advanced Structural Ceramics.