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Ebooks at Swansea University

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ABC - CLIO

5 reference books purchased about 5 years ago

• The cowboy encyclopedia

• Capital punishment: a reference handbook

• Media and politics in America: a reference handbook

• Civil War America : voices from the home front

• World poverty: a reference handbook

Ebooks useful for quick reference

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Academic Library

26 books subscribed to

• Media

• Development Studies

• International Relations

Most published by Pluto Press

Links from Voyager

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Netlibrary

• About 100 health science books outside the consortium

• Over 600 paid for by Welsh consortium

• Links from Voyager

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ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection

• 2,200 books, recommended by historians and other

scholars

• Published between about 1900 and 2004

• About 500 additional titles each year

• Useful, although only a few books in heavy demand

• Increasing number of users

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Ebooks for Law

• Oxford Scholarship Online

• erudite and esoteric books

• subscription for 2009 only

• Westlaw and Nexis

• I-Law (Informa)

• Several expensive books in high demand

• IOLIS discontinued

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Dawsonera

• Offers over 110,000 books

• Our main book supplier

• About 150 bought

• Useful for textbooks in heavy demand

• Unlimited number of simultaneous users

• Quick purchase

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Publicity

• Dummy books

• Email

• Netlibrary guide

• Links from Voyager etc.

• Web pages

• Ebook of the month posters

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Ebook trials

• Palgrave Macmillan

• MyiLibrary

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Etc!

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JISC Observatory Study comments

For certain books such as those compulsory to certain

modules ebooks would be exceedingly useful as there are

NEVER enough copies available.

Far too much reliance on ebooks; usually poor quality and

hard to read. Limited titles for Egyptology. Horrendously

expensive!

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Awareness of ebooks

• Slow increase in awareness

• Not yet at Swansea a “critical mass” of useful ebooks

• Likely to become more important

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A History lecturer’s comment

If an ebook can be ordered then that would be extremely

useful. It will improve access and it’s something no student

can hide!

English aristocratic women, 1450-1550 [print and electronic

book] : marriage and family, property and careers