Academic E-Books Stepping up to the Challenge
"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 c...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press
[2015]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425224206719 |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Notas: | Project MUSE Open Access Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781557538949 9781612494296 9781612494289 |
| Acceso: | Open access |
