Academic E-Books : Stepping up to the Challenge /
"Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the c...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Publishers' and vendors' products and services
- An industry perspective : publishing in the digital age / Nadine Vassallo
- The journey beyond print : perspectives of a commercial publisher in the academic market / Rhonda Herman
- Production, marketing, and legal challenges : the university press perspective on e-books in libraries / Tony Sanfilippo
- Delivering American Society for Microbiology e-books to libraries / Christine B Charlip
- Platform diving : a day in the life of an academic e-book aggregator / Bob Nardini
- Librarians' challenges
- University of California, Merced : primarily an electronic library / Jim Dooley
- Patron-driven acquisitions : assessing and sustaining a long-term PDA e-book program / Karen S. Fischer
- Use and cost analysis of e-books : patron-driven acquisitions plan vs librarian-selected titles / Suzanne M. Ward and Rebecca A. Richardson
- E-books across the consortium : reflections and lessons from a three-year DDA experiment at the Orbis Cascade Alliance / Kathleen Carlisle Fountain
- The simplest explanation : Occam's reader and the future of interlibrary loan and e-books / Ryan Litsey, Kenny Ketner, Joni Blake, and Anne McKee
- Developing a global e-book collection : an exploratory study / Dracine Hodges
- Users' experiences
- A social scientist uses e-books for research and in the classroom / Ann-Marie Clark
- The user experience of e-books in academic libraries : perception, discovery and use / Tao Zhang and Xi Niu
- E-book reading practices in different subject areas : an exploratory log analysis / Robert S. Freeman and E. Stewart Saunders
- Library e-book platforms are broken : let's fix them / Joelle Thomas and Galadriel Chilton
- Case studies
- A balancing act : promoting Canadian scholarly e-books while controlling user access / Ravit H. David
- Of Euripides and e-books : the digital future and our hybrid present / Lidia Uziel, Laureen Esser, and Matthew Connor Sullivan
- Transitioning to e-books at a medium-sized academic library : challenges and opportunities : a feasibility study on psychology collection / Aiping Chen-Gaffey
- E-books and a distance education program : a library's failure rate in supplying course readings for one program / Judith M. Nixon
- Mobile access to academic e-book content : a Ryerson investigation / Naomi Eichenlaub and Josephine Choi
- E-reader checkout program / Vincci Kwong and Susan Thomas
- Out with the print and in with the e-book : a case study in mass replacement of a print collection / Stephen Maher and Neil Romanosky
- Epilogue / Michael Levine-Clark
- Contributors.