Academic E-Books :   Stepping up to the Challenge /  
edited by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon. 
 - 1 online resource (400 pages):   illustrations 
 - Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences .
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/> Publishers' and vendors' products and services --  An industry perspective : publishing in the digital age /  The journey beyond print : perspectives of a commercial publisher in the academic market /  Production, marketing, and legal challenges : the university press perspective on e-books in libraries /  Delivering American Society for Microbiology e-books to libraries /  Platform diving : a day in the life of an academic e-book aggregator /  Librarians' challenges --  University of California, Merced : primarily an electronic library /  Patron-driven acquisitions : assessing and sustaining a long-term PDA e-book program /  Use and cost analysis of e-books : patron-driven acquisitions plan vs librarian-selected titles /  E-books across the consortium : reflections and lessons from a three-year DDA experiment at the Orbis Cascade Alliance /  The simplest explanation : Occam's reader and the future of interlibrary loan and e-books /  Developing a global e-book collection : an exploratory study /  Users' experiences --  A social scientist uses e-books for research and in the classroom /  The user experience of e-books in academic libraries : perception, discovery and use /  E-book reading practices in different subject areas : an exploratory log analysis /  Library e-book platforms are broken : let's fix them /  Case studies --  A balancing act : promoting Canadian scholarly e-books while controlling user access /  Of Euripides and e-books : the digital future and our hybrid present /  Transitioning to e-books at a medium-sized academic library : challenges and opportunities : a feasibility study on psychology collection /  E-books and a distance education program : a library's failure rate in supplying course readings for one program /  Mobile access to academic e-book content : a Ryerson investigation /  E-reader checkout program /  Out with the print and in with the e-book : a case study in mass replacement of a print collection /  Epilogue /  Nadine Vassallo --  Rhonda Herman --  Tony Sanfilippo --  Christine B Charlip --  Bob Nardini --  Jim Dooley --  Karen S. Fischer --  Suzanne M. Ward and Rebecca A. Richardson --  Kathleen Carlisle Fountain --  Ryan Litsey, Kenny Ketner, Joni Blake, and Anne McKee --  Dracine Hodges --  Ann-Marie Clark --  Tao Zhang and Xi Niu --  Robert S. Freeman and E. Stewart Saunders --  Joelle Thomas and Galadriel Chilton --  Ravit H. David --  Lidia Uziel, Laureen Esser, and Matthew Connor Sullivan --  Aiping Chen-Gaffey --  Judith M. Nixon --  Naomi Eichenlaub and Josephine Choi --  Vincci Kwong and Susan Thomas --  Stephen Maher and Neil Romanosky --  Michael Levine-Clark --  Contributors. 
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<br/><br/> "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 challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences. Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users' experiences with scholarly works"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781612494296 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scholarly electronic publishing.<br/>Libraries--Special collections.<br/>Libraries and electronic publishing.<br/>Academic libraries--Collection development.<br/>Academic libraries.<br/>LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Library & Information Science--General.<br/>LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Library & Information Science--General.<br/>LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Library & Information Science--General.<br/>publishing.<br/>editing.<br/>collection development.<br/>Édition.<br/>Traitement (Bibliotheques)<br/>Developpement des collections (Bibliotheques)<br/>Bibliotheques universitaires--États-Unis--Études de cas.<br/>Bibliotheques et edition electronique.<br/>Édition electronique savante.<br/>Bibliotheques universitaires--Developpement des collections.<br/>Bibliotheques--Fonds speciaux.<br/>Publishing<br/>Library Technical Services<br/>Library Collection Development<br/>Publishers and publishing.<br/>Editing.<br/>Technical services (Libraries)<br/>Collection development (Libraries)<br/>Academic libraries--United States--Case studies.<br/>Libraries and electronic publishing.<br/>Scholarly electronic publishing.<br/>Academic libraries--Collection development.<br/>Libraries--Special collections.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Case studies.<br/>Electronic books.