At Ohio State University, we pay for any e-book with a
one-time fiscal commitment out of the Monographs budget. Any e-book
that involves a lease that must be renewed, an annual platform fee, or
other continuing fiscal commitment is paid from the Serials
budget.
We get e-books from a variety of sources. Our individually selected
e-books come primarily from ebrary, using YBP's GOBI system as the
finding tool and vendor. We are satisfied with their service,
e-book platform, and patron displays and are expanding our business with
them.
We're one of the libraries piloting ebrary's patron-driven e-book
purchasing model. We are close to loading about16,400 records, from
a potential list of about 94,000 titles. We have removed titles
that have already been purchased consortially or previously from
ebrary.
After patrons open, copy, or print a set number of pages, the item is
automatically "purchased" by the pilot library and the cost is
debited against a deposit account. We're very excited about seeing
how our patrons respond to this new service.
Marsha
Marsha J. Hamilton
Associate Professor and Head, Monographs Department
The Ohio State University Libraries
Room 5782
610 Ackerman Road
Columbus, Ohio 43202-4500 USA
(614) 247-7461 - ph.
(614) 292-2015 - fax
hamilton.8@osu.edu
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Dear All,
We are trying to allocate the next fiscal year budget for the
Acquisitions and the Serials departments and we were not sure if we
should pay for e-books from Acquisitions or Serials. I would be thankful
if you update me on what you do in you libraries. We were thinking that
we should pay the e-books packages from Serials budget and the individual
selected books from Acquisitions. In addition, I would be very thankful
if you can provide me with the best platforms for individual e-books
selection.
Thank you in advance.
Ibrahim F. Farah, M.L.I.S
Acquisitions Librarian
University Libraries
American University of Beirut
Riyad El-Solh, Beirut
Lebanon
P.O.Box 11-0236
Tel. 961(1)350000 ext. 2616
Fax. 961(1)744703
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