From kfountain at orbiscascade.org Fri Sep 18 16:21:03 2015 From: kfountain at orbiscascade.org (Kathi Fountain) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:21:03 -0700 Subject: [Icolcebook] Survey on library consortia and e-books Message-ID: Colleagues: In anticipation of the ICOLC Academic E-book session to be held before the Charleston Conference, the planning group is looking for library consortia perspectives to help shape the conversation. We've created a survey to elicit your feedback on e-book data, usage, models, and the marketplace. We'll use your anonymous responses to inform the discussion between library consortia and University Press representatives. Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SYXXVCB We'd appreciate your responses by October 2nd. Thank you very much in advance for your participation. Best, Kathi Carlisle Fountain on behalf of the E-book small working group: Gwen Evans, Celeste Feather, Chris Martire, Susan Stearns, Amy Pawlowski, Lexie Thompson-Young, Lisa Croucher -- Kathi Carlisle Fountain Program Manager - electronic resources, consortial e-books, and shared collections Orbis Cascade Alliance kfountain at orbiscascade.org | 360-931-1665 *** based in the Portland metro area* ** Orbis Cascade Alliance 2288 Oakmont Way | Eugene, OR 97401 http://www.orbiscascade.org *"There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more."* -The Smiths -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kfountain at orbiscascade.org Fri Sep 18 16:38:56 2015 From: kfountain at orbiscascade.org (Kathi Fountain) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:38:56 -0700 Subject: [Icolcebook] evidence-based ebooks in consortia Message-ID: The Orbis Cascade Alliance's DDA program is just over 4-years old, and I'm working with our group of librarians to examine its future. The last year has been volatile, and the growing short term loan rates and front list embargoes have created previously unseen budget instability and project overhead. We're interested in an alternative that would bring more stability and are considering evidence-based alternatives. For those of you that have an evidence-based arrangement, can you let me know which publishers you've worked with and whether you'd recommend others to do the same? Thanks, Kathi -- Kathi Carlisle Fountain Program Manager - electronic resources, consortial e-books, and shared collections Orbis Cascade Alliance kfountain at orbiscascade.org | 360-931-1665 *** based in the Portland metro area* ** Orbis Cascade Alliance 2288 Oakmont Way | Eugene, OR 97401 http://www.orbiscascade.org *"There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more."* -The Smiths -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sknab at wnylrc.org Fri Sep 18 17:03:12 2015 From: sknab at wnylrc.org (Sheryl Knab) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 21:03:12 +0000 Subject: [Icolcebook] evidence-based ebooks in consortia In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8209EB64-1EAA-4BAE-83E3-8D2782182FBA@wnylrc.org> Hi all I would be interested as well. The NY 3Rs have experienced the same problems and have the same concerns with our own DDA program as our Orbis Cascade colleagues. Sheryl Knab Western New York Library Resources Council Airport Commerce Park East 4950 Genesee Street Suite 170 Cheektowaga, New York 14225-5528 Sknab at wnylrc.org 716-633-0705 ext 121 Sent from my iPhone. Please allow for typos. On Sep 18, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Kathi Fountain > wrote: The Orbis Cascade Alliance's DDA program is just over 4-years old, and I'm working with our group of librarians to examine its future. The last year has been volatile, and the growing short term loan rates and front list embargoes have created previously unseen budget instability and project overhead. We're interested in an alternative that would bring more stability and are considering evidence-based alternatives. For those of you that have an evidence-based arrangement, can you let me know which publishers you've worked with and whether you'd recommend others to do the same? Thanks, Kathi -- Kathi Carlisle Fountain Program Manager - electronic resources, consortial e-books, and shared collections Orbis Cascade Alliance kfountain at orbiscascade.org | 360-931-1665 ** based in the Portland metro area ** Orbis Cascade Alliance 2288 Oakmont Way | Eugene, OR 97401 http://www.orbiscascade.org "There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more." -The Smiths _______________________________________________ Icolcebook mailing list Icolcebook at lyralists.lyrasis.org http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/icolcebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sstearns at blc.org Fri Sep 18 17:40:07 2015 From: sstearns at blc.org (Susan Stearns) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:40:07 -0400 Subject: [Icolcebook] evidence-based ebooks in consortia In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Kathi - the BLC just began a Taylor & Francis evidence-based program. It's a bit too early for me to report any explicit results, but. like you, we became frustrated with a number of aspects of the ebrary dda program that we had in place the the previous 3 years. Escalating and unpredictable stl pricing being a major issue, but not the only one. After much discussion, we decided to enter into two projects for at least the next year: the T&F program mentioned above and a JSTOR ebook dda program. Maybe we can catch up at Midwinter at which point we may have something rather more definitive to report. If you specific questions relating to your evaluation, I'm glad to try to address them. Susan On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Kathi Fountain wrote: > The Orbis Cascade Alliance's DDA program is just over 4-years old, and I'm > working with our group of librarians to examine its future. The last year > has been volatile, and the growing short term loan rates and front list > embargoes have created previously unseen budget instability and project > overhead. > > We're interested in an alternative that would bring more stability and are > considering evidence-based alternatives. > > For those of you that have an evidence-based arrangement, can you let me > know which publishers you've worked with and whether you'd recommend others > to do the same? > > Thanks, > Kathi > > -- > Kathi Carlisle Fountain > Program Manager - electronic resources, consortial e-books, and shared > collections > Orbis Cascade Alliance > > kfountain at orbiscascade.org | 360-931-1665 > *** based in the Portland metro area* ** > > Orbis Cascade Alliance > 2288 Oakmont Way | Eugene, OR 97401 > http://www.orbiscascade.org > > *"There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more."* > -The Smiths > > _______________________________________________ > Icolcebook mailing list > Icolcebook at lyralists.lyrasis.org > http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/icolcebook > > -- Susan M. Stearns Executive Director Boston Library Consortium 10 Milk Street, Suite 354 Boston, MA 02109 sstearns at blc.org office: 617-262-6244 cell: 617-584-7884 www.blc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From atyoung at austin.utexas.edu Fri Sep 18 18:03:46 2015 From: atyoung at austin.utexas.edu (Thompson-Young, Alexia A) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 22:03:46 +0000 Subject: [Icolcebook] evidence-based ebooks in consortia In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Kathi, Evidence-based acquisition has been good for us. Two things: (1) You do not have to remember or monitor anything over multiple platforms (different triggers, etc?), and (2) You know exactly how much you?ll spend since you pay up front. We have focused on: what content is accessible (year, collection, etc?), and how the cost is calculated. The ?content? risk is discovery, and duplication between consortia and individual institutions (acquisitions, workflows, discovery KBs, MARC records in and out). To mitigate some of this we picked a publisher with a well-known platform among users and Google, so we are not dependent on ourselves for discovery. Regarding cost, it has to make sense to you, and you can always say no. Our institutions have not begun to rely on us heavily for books like they do for journals, so we say no often and often. However, once we figure out the duplication issues, then our institutions will begin to rely on our books and it will be harder to say no. To the details, we have tried this with Elsevier and ProjectMUSE. Both were good to work with. With Elsevier the usage went through the roof, and it is easier for an institution to remember a publication year in their acquisition workflows (like don?t buy 2015 Elsevier books yet). With ProjectMUSE the usage was more modest and still successful, but we couldn?t figure out a way to accommodate the recent years duplication issue. Not all of a Press? books are in ProjectMUSE and the only way we could know was to check the platform title by title, however now they can produce title spreadsheets. Perhaps we will reconsider with making the long tail accessible, but this has not been a priority. All ? please feel free to question, elaborate, and take a different tack. Have a good weekend, Lexie Alexia Thompson-Young atyoung at austin.utexas.edu Licensing Coordinator University of Texas Libraries University of Texas at Austin 512-495-4251 From: icolcebook-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:icolcebook-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Kathi Fountain Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 3:39 PM To: icolcebook at lyralists.lyrasis.org Subject: [Icolcebook] evidence-based ebooks in consortia The Orbis Cascade Alliance's DDA program is just over 4-years old, and I'm working with our group of librarians to examine its future. The last year has been volatile, and the growing short term loan rates and front list embargoes have created previously unseen budget instability and project overhead. We're interested in an alternative that would bring more stability and are considering evidence-based alternatives. For those of you that have an evidence-based arrangement, can you let me know which publishers you've worked with and whether you'd recommend others to do the same? Thanks, Kathi -- Kathi Carlisle Fountain Program Manager - electronic resources, consortial e-books, and shared collections Orbis Cascade Alliance kfountain at orbiscascade.org | 360-931-1665 ** based in the Portland metro area ** Orbis Cascade Alliance 2288 Oakmont Way | Eugene, OR 97401 http://www.orbiscascade.org "There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more." -The Smiths -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kfountain at orbiscascade.org Sat Sep 19 10:58:09 2015 From: kfountain at orbiscascade.org (Kathi Fountain) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 07:58:09 -0700 Subject: [Icolcebook] Survey on library consortia and e-books In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, The link text I sent previously was correct, but the underlying link took you to the publishers survey. Here is the link again, sending you to the right place! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SYXXVCB Kathi On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Kathi Fountain wrote: > Colleagues: > > In anticipation of the ICOLC Academic E-book session to be held before the > Charleston Conference, the planning group is looking for library consortia > perspectives to help shape the conversation. > > We've created a survey to elicit your feedback on e-book data, usage, > models, and the marketplace. We'll use your anonymous responses to inform > the discussion between library consortia and University Press > representatives. > > Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SYXXVCB > > > We'd appreciate your responses by October 2nd. Thank you very much in > advance for your participation. > > Best, > > Kathi Carlisle Fountain > on behalf of the E-book small working group: Gwen Evans, Celeste Feather, > Chris Martire, Susan Stearns, Amy Pawlowski, Lexie Thompson-Young, Lisa > Croucher > > -- > Kathi Carlisle Fountain > Program Manager - electronic resources, consortial e-books, and shared > collections > Orbis Cascade Alliance > > kfountain at orbiscascade.org | 360-931-1665 > *** based in the Portland metro area* ** > > Orbis Cascade Alliance > 2288 Oakmont Way | Eugene, OR 97401 > http://www.orbiscascade.org > > *"There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more."* > -The Smiths > -- Kathi Carlisle Fountain Program Manager - electronic resources, consortial e-books, and shared collections Orbis Cascade Alliance kfountain at orbiscascade.org | 360-931-1665 *** based in the Portland metro area* ** Orbis Cascade Alliance 2288 Oakmont Way | Eugene, OR 97401 http://www.orbiscascade.org *"There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more."* -The Smiths -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From celeste.feather at lyrasis.org Wed Sep 23 11:39:34 2015 From: celeste.feather at lyrasis.org (Celeste Feather) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:39:34 +0000 Subject: [Icolcebook] Register now for ICOLC eBook Workshop in Charleston on Nov.4 Message-ID: Registration is now open for the ICOLC Academic eBook Workshop in Charleston, SC on November 4, 2015! The workshop will begin with presentations from Gwen Evans (OhioLINK, representing consortia) and Peter Berkery (American Association of University Presses). The speakers will present their respective communities' concerns, pain points, etc. with respect to consortial buying of ebook packages, and then focus on what each community would like to learn from the other. The presentations will be followed by small group discussions among consortia staff and publisher representatives for a directed but informal discussion about consortia, university presses, and aggregator-related topics. After a brief wrap-up and lunch, ICOLC members will reconvene without the publishers in the afternoon to further discuss the academic e-book market for consortia. Please Note: Due to space limitations, we ask that initially no more than 2 individuals per consortium register for the event until October 2. Please consult with your consortium director before registering. After that date, we will open the remaining registrations on a first-come, first served basis. Register here: ICOLC Academic eBook Workshop Registration Date: November 4, 2015 (Wednesday) Time: 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00 - 3:00 Program (includes boxed lunch) Location: Alumni Center at the College of Charleston 86 Wentworth St, Charleston, SC 29401 (7 minute walk from the Francis Marion Hotel) Publishers attending: Peter Berkery, American Association of University Presses Krista Coulson, University of Chicago Press Greg Kornbluh, Harvard University Press Tony SanFillipo, Ohio State University Press Mark Saunders, University of Virginia Press Dean Smith, Cornell University Press Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan Press Dennis Lloyd, University of Wisconsin Press Susan Doerr, University of Minnesota Press Meredith Babb, University Press of Florida Kim Steinle, Duke University Press Darrin Pratt, University Press of Colorado Leila Salisbury, University Press of Mississippi Hope to see you there! 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