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eBooks & more: New services from the eBooks on Demand (EOD) network Silvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck/A, Library [email protected]

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Silvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck2nd LIBER-EBLIDA Digitisation Workshop, The Hague, 19 October 2009

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eBooks & more:New services from the eBooks on

Demand (EOD) networkSilvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck/A, Library

[email protected]

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Background #1

?Library‘s own

fundsLibrary‘s own

fundsPublic funds

EC/national fundsPublic funds

EC/national funds

PPPs / the Google approach

PPPs / the Google approach

Any other model possible?

Not project basedNot timely limitedBottom up = reader

driven

Any other model possible?

Not project basedNot timely limitedBottom up = reader

driven

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Background #2

What are the criteria for current selection? Who will take care of those materials slipping through the fingers of all those projects?Who will digitize books of minor languages or those from special or smaller collections?From the user´s point-of view: how can someone who needs a book in digital form receive this book, here and now, if it has not yet been digitized?

?[source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timetrax/376152628/]

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EOD – the service

EOD button: digitising this

book on request

Incorporation into Digital

Library

Library: scans & transfers images

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EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view

Order Data Manager– Central database with web-interface

Each library has access to its own orders onlyAccording to its needs each library is able to customise the website texts, automatically generated email texts, etc. Central management of credit card payments

Digital Object Generator– Central service for generating eBooks

OCR recognition (antiqua and gothic)Automated cover generationPDF & RTF deliveryAbbyy XML for libraryStreaming link for download generation

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Who is currently offering the service?

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Co-ordinator: University of Innsbruck, Library

More than 20 libraries from 10 countries

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EOD members

AustriaUniversity Libraries of Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna (2x),Vienna City Library

GermanyBavarian State Library (Munich), University Libraries of Regensburg, Greifswald, Berlin (Humboldt University), Saxon State Library (Dresden)

Czech Republic

Moravian Library (Brno), Research Library in Olomouc, National Technical Library, Library of the Czech Academy of Science

Denmark Royal LibraryEstonia National Library, University Library of TartuFrance Medical and Dental Academic Library of Paris Portugal National Library Slovakia University Library of BratislavaSlovenia National and University Library

Hungary National Széchényi Library of Hungary, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science

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Facts & Figures

Delivery time– average 1 week

Quantities:– Approx. 3200 books = approx. 840.000 pages– Top 3 libraries: 1 order / working day– Quite big differences between libraries

1900 customersAverage price of order: about 50 EUR / order

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Experiences

User reactions

Good quality!

Fast!Access to

books otherwise

inaccessible

How can I get books from 20th

century?

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B. Price Evaluation30 % of respondents perceived the price as high or very high, but the price-value relation was evaluated positively by the majority. The perceived price-value relation does not depend on the price actually paid for the eBook.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Price comparedto competitors

Price-valuerelation

very low/good (1) low/good (2) high/poor (3)very high/poor (4) don't know

(in % of respondents; n = 106; source: EOD user survey 2008)

1,4

Mean

2,8

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Perspectives

Quantity of digitisationThe priceThe catalogue situationEOD as brand

⇒EOD in Culture programme

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EOD in Culture Programme 2009-2013

Disseminate the EOD serviceEnlarge the EOD network

Explore EOD as best practise model for European wide cooperation for other institutions (e.g. archives, museums,…)Support the cultural dialogue among readers and users of historical books by supplying Web 2.0 social platforms with details about selected historical books

Objectives:

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Perspectives

Quantity of digitisationThe priceThe catalogue situation

⇒Shared and union catalogues, EOD central search engineEOD as brand

⇒EOD in Culture programme

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EOD in „The European Library“

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PerspectivesQuantity of digitisationThe price

⇒Need of taking into account institutional and regional conditionsThe catalogue situation

⇒Shared and union catalogues, EOD central search engineEOD as brand

⇒EOD in Culture programme

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PerspectivesQuantity of digitisation

⇒ARROW projectThe price

⇒Need of taking into account institutional and regional conditionsThe catalogue situation

⇒Shared and union catalogues, EOD central search engineEOD as brand

⇒EOD in Culture programme

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EOD & ARROW

Duration: September 2008 – March 2011ARROW = “Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana”Goal: finding ways to identify rightholders, rights and clarify the rights status of a work including whether it is orphan or out of printWP 7 “Validation” - EOD libraries as use cases

www.arrow.net

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More „on demand“ products

What we would like to realise:− Digitisation on demand for blind

and visually impaired− Creation of „real“ eBooks with

corrected full text approximating100% accuracy

What we have already realised:– Reprint on demand

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Used functions of EOD files (in % of respondents; n = 181, source: EOD user survey 2008)

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Browse & Zoom

Print single pages

Print whole book

Full text search

Copy & Paste

unused

other

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Reprints IFrom the user’s point of view: one more click

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Reprints IIFrom a member library‘s point of view: just some more metadata – BISAC Subject– Number of colored pages

From the co-ordinator‘s point of view – Image enhancement– Creation of pre-press PDF, ONIX file and

cover file– Delivery to print service provider– Overall management

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Reprints: Business Model

How does it pay off?– First customer pays only printing costs (EUR

6 + EUR 0,02 p.p)– Re-selling via Amazon– First revenues from re-selling => co-ordinator– Subsequent revenue => library

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EOD & EuropeanaConnect

Task 5.7: – Delivery of EOD eBooks to Europeana– Prototype of Print on Demand in Europeana

Goal:– First books will be delivered before May 2010

www.europeana-connect.eu

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