Overview of ebook collections at the University of Colorado, presented to bibliographers on February 10, 2011.

1. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries e-book Collections Overview

2. What is an ebook? A digital version of a traditional print book designed to be read on a personal computer or an e-book reader. Synonymous with e-book, electronic book, digital book, and online book. --Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science, (Reitz, 2010) “An electronic text created, presented, and consumed in a manner closely resembling the cultural practice of a book.” --AAUP Wiki, http://aaupwiki.princeton.edu/index.php/Glossary_of_terms

7. 600,000+ records to electronically available government publications (locally subscribed and elsewhere)

8. 230,000+ records to online monograph type material from interdisciplinary and subject databases -- historic newspaper entries, letters, diaries, broadsides, pamphlets, and other book matter

10. e-book Collections by Subject Area Sciences: Safari, Knovel, Springer, CRC Business/Computer Science: Books 24x7, Safari Social Sciences: Duke University Press Humanities: ACLS Humanities e-book, Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Multi-discipline: Reference titles, netLibrary, EBL, ebrary, MyiLibrary

11. e-book Usage Statistics Project COUNTER Statistics available: Sessions Searches Views/Accesses Percentage Copied/Printed Turnaways (single user access) Title/Publisher/Pub Date/Subjects

12. Ebook Usage Statistics, 2010 netLibrary – ~14,000 ebooks / 5,313 accesses Ebrary: 144 ebooks / 1,088 views / 8,308 pages viewed EBL: 44 ebooks / 20 reads / 68 browses / 9 downloads Springer: ~43,000 titles / 50,655 successful section requests (COUNTER R1) Duke University Press: ~1,100 titles / 20,803 successful section requests Safari Books Online: 124 titles / 27,274 successful section requests Books 24x7: ~17,000 titles / ~4,800 accesses (5 months)

13. Current Issues with Academic eBooks Pricing: no consistency; single user vs. multiple user DRM: too many restrictions on printing, downloading, lack of ILL privileges Multiple vendors and interfaces New ebook initiatives in scholarly publishing: Books at JSTOR – launching 2012 (5 publishers) MUSE Editions - launching 7/1/11 (~20 publishers) University Press E-book Consortium Project (~50 publishers) Oxford UPSO Platform – launching Fall 2011

14. My iLibrary

15. PDA Purchased Publishers MyiLibraryPDA (Patron-Driven Acquisitions) new titles (RSS)

16. My iLibrary Usage Statistics

17. COUNTER BR2: Successful Section Requests

18. Thank you! Questions?