We purchase ebrary books straight through YBP, but with Gale Virtual Reference books, and when we've bought things like the Oxford
Scholarship Online, I've talked directly with the vendor because they've been able to give us a great discount. With the Gale
e-books, for example, I send our rep a list of the titles we want (twice a year) and then she sends back a price quote. It's better
than their price in Gobi/YBP often.
With the ebrary books, though, we've figured out a "shelf-ready" style program where the MARC records come in from YBP in a batch
load, with our URL for the e-book (including our proxy information) already in the 856 field. That makes buying the ebrary e-books
from YBP very easy and fast.
Good luck!
Georgie
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Georgie Donovan, Asst. Professor
Coordinator, Bibliographic Services
Belk Library :: Appalachian State University
w :: 828.262.7571
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Subject: [ACQNET-L] eBook Purchasing
For years, we have provided access to ebooks, via our local OPAC, by virtue of membership in a state-wide consortium. We are now
considering purchasing titles, not part of consortium purchases, on our own, and I'm wondering about the pros and cons of purchasing
through a library jobber, such as YBP, vs individual aggregators, such as ebrary, Netlibrary, EBL, Gale, etc.
I'd like to know what others of you are doing. Thanks, in advance, for your insights.--Lcj
Laverne C. Jenkins , MLS
Technical Services Librarian
Cuyahoga Community College
Library Technical Services
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Cleveland, OH 44115 -3123
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