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Swets & eBooks: Latest developments Hotel Carrefour de l’Europe: September 21st, 2010

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Your users

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Current eKnowledge vs age

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Natives, their world …

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The Power of Convenience…

Simple

Easy

Fast

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eBooks Sourcing - Key Findings

Source: CIBER, University College London UK - 2007

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The Power of Convenience…

The superior source for quality, credible content

Preferred for academic research and course assignments

Source: SerialsSolutions 2010

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The Power of Convenience…

The easiest place to start the research process

…But actual user-behavior says otherwise!

Source: SerialsSolutions 2010

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“I want it all, now, here and

the way I want!”

The User is in Control!

Natives, Their vision …

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Visits increases….

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La plateforme de gestion: SwetsWise

e-readers

computer

tablets

eBooks….

And in the future …

The Book

1st writing

Full Content search

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Why would you invest in eBook?

• 24/7 access

• Access from everywhere

• Saves space

• Allows searching in full text (in codes, in formulas, in tables, …)

• Manipulate (share, copy, add notes, your own shelf…) the information

• Rich content

• Ecological attitude

• Accessibility to all (visually impaired,…)

• customization web2.0

• Connect with the younger (Google, Flickr, facebook, MP3, JPEG, MPEG,

PDF, … on their smartphones, netbooks, tablets, …) = the Natives

• eReference = eSuccess

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A Library consists of:

Library

Users

AccessContent

Staff

Manage

• Subs• Buy eBooks• User Stats• …

• Multiple resources• Search, Filter• Manipulate• …

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UW Digital Library some figures…UW Digital Collections and Digital Library Projects Summary Statisticssource: http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu/usageStats/ Last Updated: 2010-07-13

Collection Name FY10 FY09 FY08 FY07 FY06 FY05 FY04 FY03 FY02 FY01 TotalEcology & Natural Resources 1,512,121 502,125 882,556 467,640 804,972 406,339 36,832 970 4,613,555Decorative Arts Library 1,612,232 485,807 469,204 280,327 245,410 122,591 73,568 17,048 2,630 766 3,309,583History Collection 1,468,567 435,781 365,895 295,277 284,525 76,919 5,874 996 2,933,834History of Science 1,304,955 431,137 319,860 179,720 64,295 23,713 5,603 1,675 44 2,331,002Foreign Relations 1,368,276 330,452 245,655 129,484 61,513 29,004 15,605 7,027 3,490 1,384 2,191,890Africa Focus 590,922 326,487 188,696 143,933 232,395 99,694 73,361 73,060 55,812 26,230 1,810,590PAIR 46,134 36,857 26,061 297,277 1,136,831 200,338 16,143 1,759,641Iceland Online 540,337 456,590 326,983 221,114 103,073 26,838 1,674,935Literature Collection 976,962 236,429 121,450 46,219 34,792 21,033 1,210 1,438,095Human Ecology 1,067,908 204,367 33,524 1,305,799Arts Collection 620,205 178,247 124,253 67,784 43,337 7,069 1,040,895Archival Resources Wi 641,875 189,443 159,513 1,160 5,933 4,960 4,101 7,582 683 1,015,250Jonas Hallgrimsson 143,320 135,476 112,354 95,561 97,378 98,033 73,445 40,508 35,813 27,939 859,827Chambers Book of Days 92,908 80,084 90,150 102,013 135,062 114,262 88,207 54,377 56,480 23,339 836,882Joyce Collection 344,801 120,298 79,245 58,506 59,938 33,422 24,473 8,915 1,814 731,412Parenthood 33,472 36,187 32,609 37,548 79,714 108,344 86,224 64,582 54,303 532,983German Studies 415,109 87,852 11,733 514,694Primate Lit 46,447 63,765 76,775 58,242 46,215 52,262 54,680 42,413 31,074 360 472,233Ravenstein Atlas 51,626 55,802 51,701 54,648 68,652 70,974 353,403East European Slavic 311,461 14,797 326,258Ibero American Texts 81,592 72,036 49,491 43,734 39,367 19,993 8,453 1,701 509 109 316,985Aldo Leopold 223,949 61,557 5,857 291,363Antiquities of Wisc 34,191 44,092 29,745 27,228 32,517 27,505 19,613 11,585 8,342 3,410 238,228Publisher's Binding Online 45,562 67,578 47,998 21,559 17,125 5,925 205,747Mills Virtual Catalog 42,179 39,728 38,593 37,946 24,138 253 1,145 88 184,070jspc 6,412 8,010 6,304 6,067 11,378 14,316 3,735 10,500 5,161 71,883Brecht Guide 10,535 10,554 10,406 8,476 5,141 45,112Cranberry Proceedings 1,291 4,309 4,008 9,422 13,340 4,514 2,332 445 39,661East Asian 19,640 6,230 6,181 4,536 2,264 668 39,519Paramount Records 4,938 4,328 4,048 3,745 2,432 2,549 3,125 3,900 2,363 1,518 32,946Historical Research 5,333 5,031 4,854 4,878 3,204 2,979 5,046 576 31,901JCE 143 174 3,838 5,783 7,616 9,285 1,233 529 472 370 29,443Americana Catalog 4,992 4,455 4,172 3,680 1,736 1,803 1,758 2,002 951 593 26,142Cuca Records 4,757 4,155 3,818 3,236 1,447 1,357 1,394 1,895 1,083 847 23,989Cuca History 2,308 5,014 4,093 3,193 4,290 2,832 1,158 637 60 23,585Artists' Books Collection 8,225 6,611 5,840 2,464 23,140Popular Sheet Music 5,212 4,854 4,562 3,940 2,159 923 779 320 22,749New Communications 1,156 1,285 952 1,761 6,352 2,455 1,457 1,480 1,071 375 18,344American Languages 4,828 4,688 4,273 3,633 381 17,803Hum Ecol Centennial 5,713 3,780 3,261 2,877 785 464 482 311 17,673Little Magazine Interviews 4,439 3,749 3,580 2,997 127 14,892African Studies 13,269 13,269Forest Products Lab 12,745 12,745PrimateImages 7,121 3,986 1,596 12,703Gay Peoples Union 9,533 1,451 10,984European Interiors 780 1,096 938 639 236 559 628 899 779 6,554Global Design 879 803 667 106 838 860 425 578 5,156Pushkin Collection 114 117 343 586 1,116 598 492 660 241 4,267Helen Allen Textiles 137 463 326 356 331 0 1,613Oneida Language 1,463 1,463TOTAL 13,753,074 4,778,117 3,967,961 2,739,295 3,682,355 1,595,633 612,581 357,259 263,175 87,240

The fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30. "FY06" ends in June 2006. The current fiscal year includes the current month.Current fiscal year-to-date and past fiscal year totals are shown in the rows next to each collection name, in reverse chronological order."-" (hyphen) indicates the collection was not yet available to the public"d.n.a." indicates the collection was publically available but data is not available for this report.A session/use is a discrete period of usage from a unique IP address.For Database collections, a "session" is a session started by the user and then terminated, either by the user exiting the session or by the session timing out.For E-Facsimile, E-Text, and HTML collections, a session/use is a period of usage in which file requests (also known as "hits") from the

same IP address are not separated by more than 15 minutes. Session/use counts are always lower than the number of "hits" because a single period of usage involves multiple file requests.

Collections with both Database and E-Facs/E-Text/HTML components show total sessions/uses combined.

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the jargon…

• « Users » = number of concurrent users

• « License » = permanent Access or subscription

• « Business Model » = cost related to the access of content

« Pick & Choose » = buy title per title

« Collections » = buy by collections

« Patron select » = buying based on the end-users consultations

• Aggregator vs Publisher

• DRM = Digital Rights Management

• Authentication: IP address, shibboleth, Athens, login + password or …

• « Personal Shelf »

• COUNTER = usage stats

• MARC records = for feeding the ILS

• eReference = eSuccess

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The jungle of business models…

eBooks are more than ever a hot topic: the e-readers become commonplace and supply diversifies and grows exponentially.

But who says diversity, thinks complexity.

The diversity of economic models of eBooks can be summarized as follows:

BUSINESS MODELS

TYPE OF LICENCE

One Of

Subscription

Collection Pick & Chose

NUMBER OF USERS Unique

UserMultipleUsers

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The future of eBooks looks bright…

Based on Swets market research, eBooks represent 9% of the total book expenditure in libraries

Libraries indicated this percentage would double in the next three years

More and more libraries are developing an e-only collection development policy

Swets Survey, Feb – Mar 2009, 221 respondents

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Librarians are struggling to keep up with all these models

1. Comparing pricing between vendors & available pricing options

2. Finding out which eBook titles are available

3. Comparing license conditions

4. Negotiating & signing license agreements for eBooks

5. Obtaining & analyzing usage statistics

Market suffers from a lack of transparency

Top-5 headaches for librarians regarding eBooks

Source: Customer Survey Swets, “11 Questions on eBooks”, April 2009

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Our answer to the complexity: eBooks in SwetsWise!

Now extended to support the acquisition and management of eBooks

SwetsWise provides a single interface for journals and eBooks, which is unique to the information industry

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SwetsWise provides you with a single source for eBooks purchasing

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SwetsWise eBooks upload for 2010

april may june july august september october november december

IGI Global Ciando 123LibraryTaylor & Francis CABI Bentham

IOS Press Berghahn Press Oxford University PressMyilibrary De Gruyter Canadian Electronic Library

Brill HeBook e-LibroCRCnetBase World Scientific Elsevier World Bank

Ebrary R2 Digital Library EmeraldSafari Books Online

Skillsoft - Books 24x7

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SwetsWise : One solution, two perspectives

Admin access to browse the catalog, buy eBooks and manage purchasing

End user access to consult all the eBooks content from a single point

SwetsWise platform enables the acquisition, management and access to eBooks.

These actions are not all for the same audience:

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The Admin interface:

Library

Users

AccessContent

= eBook Procurement Catalogue

- Clarify- Complete- Transparency

Staff

Manage

• Subs• Buy eBooks• User Stats• …

Staff

Manage

• Subs• Buy eBooks• User Stats• …

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The End-User interface:

Users

AccessContent

Users

AccessContent

Library Global Solutionvia:

Individual access

SEARCHER= search in full-text of all your ressources (eBooks, subs, theses, …)

Other ownedressource …

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What to Remember:

The SwetsWise eBook catalogue contains today more than 400 000 ebooks and more than 1000 publishers

The Admin interface allows to easily compare the offers of the different eBook vendors,

The Admin interface allows easy buying of eBooks,

The Admin interface will help to Avoid unnecessary duplication costs by checking if title is already purchased,

Easy invoicing procedure

The end-user interface allows quick access to your eBooks and also to your other sources of information,

Full text search of all your e-ressources

AND MOST IMPORTANT: today already available for SwetsWise customers

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Useful links: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/charleston-survey.pdf

http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu/

http://www.library.wisc.edu/#books

http://www.arald.org/ressources/pdf/services/edition/lexique_numerique.pdf

http://www.swets.com/upload/8201526_672_1270627633324-eBooksinSW_4page-FINAL-web.pdf

http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/HighWireEBookSurvey2010.pdf

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Q & A

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Thank you!

More info?

Olivier Van Kerkhove

Sales Manager & Relationship Manager

ovankerkhove@be.swets.com

+32 (0)477 450 043