[Ed. note: ACQNET received this on 8-30-00]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:10:50 -0400
From: Liz Lobeer (Rush Univ.) <Elorbeer_at_rushu.rush.edu>
Subject: Health Science e-books
July 21, 2000
Hello,
I am in the process of gathering information on e-books for allied health
and clinical medicine. My library serves both a hospital and a university,
and I am looking for feedback from libraries how ebooks are acquired and if
you support peripheral equipment to view the electronic content. We already
provide online access to MD Consult, over thirty online medical and clinical
textbooks, but are looking further to develop an electronic book collection.
Through the State of Illinois, we have access to NetLibrary, but the health
science titles available are consumer health orientated instead of research
titles. Are there any libraries actively collecting ebooks, if so, do you
use e-readers or a desktop computer to download the text? Do you have a
retention policy? Do you know of any publishers or vendors digitizing text
in the health sciences? Any licensing issues? Thank you in advanced for
your assistance.
Sincerely,
Liz Lorbeer
Library of Rush University
Elorbeer_at_rushu.rush.edu <mailto:Elorbeer_at_rushu.rush.edu>
Received on Mon Sep 04 2000 - 14:23:43 EDT