Carole,
Your process pretty much describes the conclusions I reached while talking to my Gale rep., i.e. it’s essentially the same workflow as purchasing print. It became so obvious once I started talking it through, aloud, with someone. Like one of those “Well Duh!” moments J! At this point, however, I’m opting for the complimentary records from those aggregators that provide them. We got the MARC records from BT, with a lease book service, and ended up cancelling them. So, I figure we will not have lost anything if I end up overlaying the complimentary records.
We are an OhioLINK institution, and I’m getting a sense that many of our students access our holdings via the OhioLINK Central Catalog from home, so I want to avoid unnecessary duplication of records in the central catalog.
I’m also looking at Coutts’ ebook service. They offer publishers that might not be in YBP’s active pool. I’m taking it slow, though. One at a time J!
Thanks for your comments!
Laverne
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Hi Laverne.
At SJSU Library, we now purchase the vast majority of our individual ebook titles via a jobber. We still get some large collections and packages directly from publishers and aggregators, but title-by-title, we've found it easier to use a jobber when possible.
When looking at this option, our goal with ebooks was to mimic, as closely as possible anyway, our print book workflow. We had already been using YBP as a primary print vendor for some time, using the Gobi interface for selecting & ordering, getting EOCR's, PromptCat records and invoices, etc. When we were buying individual ebook titles direct via publishers or aggregators, we had a different workflow to contend with for each supplier regarding all aspects of the order. This multitude of processes and suppliers really complicated our workflows.
Now that we use YBP for ebook orders, we have been able to consolidate the selecting & ordering, EOCR, and invoicing pieces of the process. We still get the full MARC records for our ebooks a variety of ways, depending on the provider, but the process is much more streamlined than it was when we bought them all over the place. I believe you can get MARC records for your ebooks via YBP as well, if you opt for their ebook cataloging service, but we have not taken that step yet ourselves. Regarding service and speed, I would say it is at least as good as it was when we ordered "direct," meaning having YBP in the middle really hasn't slowed the process down. Overall, it has definitely improved our ebook process.
Hope this helps.
Carole Correa-Morris
University Library Head of Acquisitions
San Jose State University
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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
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