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Paola PirettaCountry Manager – Italy & Malta

10th Annual AMICAL Conference 2013

for Academic Institutions

Why eBooks (and

Audiobooks) on EBSCOHost?

1. Optimize Collection Development

2. Increase Usage and Value

3. Streamline Workflow

4. Maximize Budget

5. Meet Content Needs

1Optimize Collection

Development

Why EBSCO eBooks?

M E E T C O N T E N T N E E D S

Content

• Over 400.000 eBooks• About 17.500 eAudiobooks

M E E T C O N T E N T N E E D S

– Taylor & Francis Routledge– John Wiley & Sons– ABC-CLIO– Palgrave Macmillan– Facts on File– Edward Elgar Publishing– Springer Science & Business– CRC Press– Elsevier– I.B. Tauris

– IGI Global– Greenwood Publishing Group– Springer Publishing– Continuum Publishing

– Over 100 University Presses, including:

• Oxford University Press

• Cambridge University Press

• MIT Press

EBSCO offers 400.000 ebooks from around 900

Publishers

A U D I O B O O K S

– Simon & Schuster

– AudioGO (BBC)

– Blackstone

– Tantor

– Scholastic Audio

– Highbridge Audio

– Phoenix Books & Audio

– Naxos of America

– Oasis Audio

– Books in Motion

17.500 audiobooks from 70 Publishers

Compliant with different devices (including Apple and KindleFire)

Various Approaches to Collection Development

Subscription-based

Purchase / Ownership

Patron Driven Acquisition

Patron Driven Short-term Loan

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

• Large collections • Predefined list of titles • Unlimited user access• Annual renewal

– A fraction of the cost compared to the purchase of each individual title

Subscription-based Collections

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C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

• eBook Academic Subscription Collection - 116.000+ titoli

• eBook Business Subscription Collection - 7.500+ titoli

• eBook Clinical Subscription Collection - 1.700+ titoli

• eBook Engineering Subscription Collection - 4.500+ titoli

• eBook Information Technology Subscription Coll - 3.500+ titoli

Some example

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

eBook Academic Subscription (EBSCO) Subjects

Figures as of May 2013

WorldwideLC Primary Class Titles %Agriculture 959 0.8%Auxiliary sciences of history 552 0.5%Bibliography. Library Science 1,569 1.4%Education 5,264 4.5%Fine Arts 1,415 1.2%General Works 101 0.1%Geography, Anthropology, Recreation 3,253 2.8%History of the Americas 5,879 5.1%Language and Literature 18,620 16.0%Law 3,964 3.4%Medicine 7,857 6.8%Military Science 1152 1.0%Music and Books on Music 1,628 1.4%Naval Science 191 0.2%Philosophy, Psychology, Religion 13,162 11.3%Political Science 3,976 3.4%Science 10,228 8.8%Social Sciences 20,616 17.7%Technology 6,215 5.4%World History 7,189 6.2%Unclassified 2,431 2.1%

Total 116,217 100.0%

Subscription Model Comparison

EBSCO

Purchase Value (1U) $9,181,461

EBSCO’s collection is far more valuable

Figures as of May 2013

Subscription Model Comparison: EBSCO

EBSCO

University Press e-books 39,923

EBSCO’s collection is far more academic

Figures as of May 2013

Subscription Model Comparison

EBSCO’s collection is more current

Year Published EBSCO

2009 e-books 10,614

2010 e-books 10,870

2011 e-books 8,228

2012 e-books 2,343

Total 2009 forward 32,055

Figures as of May 2013

PURCHASEOptions

Title by Title

Subject Sets

Featured Collections

Custom Collections

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

•Single title purchase (no minimum required) • Titles available in 1U, 3U or UU access

•Perpetual Access

•No mark up

•No Maintenance Fee

•MARC Record for free

•Blind archive

Purchase optionTitle-by-Title

selection

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

• Over 100 predefined collections

• Subject-oriented

• New Subject Sets are created quarterly

• No overlap between Sets

• Unlimited Users

Purchase optionSubject Sets

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

Subject Setspurchase option

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C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

• Wider than Subject Sets• Prepackaged collections of titles

in high-demand areas• Unlimited Users• Examples

– eBook Collection: Election 2012

– Community College Collection: Nursing and Allied Health

– CINAHL Core eBook Packages

– Doody’s Core Titles 2012

Purchase option Featured Collections

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

• Titles available in 1U, 3U or UU access

– EBSCO’s Collection Development librarians work to understand your current collection and goals

– In consideration of library goals and budgets, our team recommends specific titles to purchase

– This no-cost custom collection service is available for purchases in excess of $5,000

Purchase option Custom Collections

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

No matter how you build your collection

you can choose to enable

To ensures that you only purchase titles when they are used.

Purchase option Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA)

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

• More than 10 minutes active use in full text

• More than 10 page views in full text

• Downloading eBook

• Printing, copying, saving, emailing full text

Purchases are triggered only when meaningful use occurs:

C O L L E C T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T

subscriptions | subject sets | featured collections | custom collections | title-by-title selection | patron driven acquisition | short-term loans

• To provide access to titles only for a short period

1, 7, 14 or 28 day loan periods

Patron Driven Short-term Loan

Linked to the previous option, the

Loan-to-Ownenable auto-purchase of titles after a

pre-determined number of short-term loans

2Increase Usage & Value

for End Users

Why EBSCO eBooks?

EBSCOHost makes easy the

access and usage of eBooks

Downloading, printing and saving

Full text searching

Digital Lending

Searcheable together with Databases

Integrated in EDS Ebsco Discovery

Service

I N C R E A S E U S A G E & VA L U E F O R E N D U S E R S

Explore Interface Features»

I N C R E A S E U S A G E & VA L U E F O R E N D U S E R S

• Increase visibility and usage of your eBook collection with search box widgets– Add to any library website

Search Box Widget

3Streamline Workflow

Why EBSCO eBooks?

S T R E A M L I N E D W O R K F L O W

• Ordering and managing eBook collections

– EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM)– GOBI3

– OASIS – Coming Soon

For Administrators

EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM)

Selector & Approver Roles

Powerful Browse and Search

Options

Easily order Collection or single

titles

Create and manage PDAs

Explore Collections, Subject Sets,

and Recently Added titles

Explore Interface Features»

4Maximize Budget

Why eBooks on EBSCOhost?

M A X I M I Z E B U D G E T

• For any titles purchased

– no markups– no fees– Free MARC records

No markups, No fees

Maximize Your BudgetThrough leveraging a combination of approaches

Subscription

PurchaseWith no markups and no fees

PDATo ensure 100% circulation

of what is purchased

Large collections; low cost

MaximizeYour eBook Budget

& Overall Value

5Meet Content Needs

Why EBSCO eBooks?

M E E T C O N T E N T N E E D S

All EBSCO eBooks are maintained in a third party dark archive

from which they could be made accessible in the extremely unlikely

event that EBSCOhost went away

Digital Preservation and Long-term Access

Thank you!

Paola Pirettappiretta@ebscohost.com