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Naomi ChowUH Mānoa Hamilton LibraryILL/ESP Librarian
Mitch MoultonSpringer Science+Business MediaAccount Development Specialist
HLA, December 5, 2014
When Libraries, Publishers, and Consortium Collaborate: The Occam’s Reader Project
eBook Resource Sharing Challenge
No Library Can Collect Everything
• Libraries rely on interlibrary loan of physical books to expand access to information
• What would be the impact on research and scholarship when there is no print to borrow?
• Content could become silo-ed as libraries begin to collect predominately in eBook format due to:o Licensing restrictions that disallow ILLo Lack of method to easily and legally loan e-books
Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757)
OCLC WorldCat:• ©2012• 378 copies as eBook• 47 copies in print
• SpringerLink, EBL, EBSCO Host, eBrary, MyiLibrary
Calculus for Computer Graphics
OCLC WorldCat:• ©2013• 283 copies as eBook• 12 copies in print
• SpringerLink, EBL
Experimental Opportunity
Publishers as the content provider, like Springer, may allow ILL for direct content
• Provides opportunity for collaborative partnership in pilot for ILL loans of eBooks
• Explore the potential impact on publishers and content providers as well libraries
• Ultimately, is this a sustainable model?
Exploring eBook Loans
Collaboratively
• Positive/negative impact on publisher sales?• Acceptance by patrons?• Acceptance by libraries & ILL staff?
eLoans?!
Occam’s Reader Partners• Springer
Science+Business Media
• Occam’s Reader Project Group
• Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA consortia of 33 academic libraries)
Content provider giving access to100,000+ eBook titles
Developer of software design and workflow
~ TTU, UHM, GWLA ~
Pilot testers + source of title holdings
Springer’s Relationship with Libraries and Resource Sharing
• Given strong support to resource sharing since eBooks were launched in 2007
• One of the few eBook platforms with interlibrary loan directly written in license
• eBook PDF arranged by table of contents with chapter by chapter access
Who is Springer• A leading global STM publisher publishing more than 2,200
English-language journals and 8,400 new books in 2013
• Content is available 24-7, DRM-free, and with concurrent access to unlimited users
• SpringerLink is one of the leading internet science portals, including more than 8.5 million scientific documents
OUP
WK Health
CUP
Sage
Wiley-Blackwell
Informa
Elsevier
Springer
Medicine Science & Technology Social Sciences & Humanities
Leading Journals Publishers by Number of Titles 2013
Academic/scholarly English language journals published in 2013
2,305
2,174
1,831
1,566
675
322
276
268
WK Health
Sage
Elsevier
Wiley-Blackwell
CUP
Palgrave Macmillan
OUP
Taylor & Francis
Springer
Medicine Science & Technology Social Sciences & Humanities
Leading Book Publishers by Number of New Titles 2013
Data from www.puballey.com ; if a book is published simultaneously in hard- and paperback editions, only the hardback edition was included
5,920
4,651
2,342
1,459
1,500
1,389
1,945
759
241
Contemporary English Language
eBooks
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20140
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
eBooks
0%
1%
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%% of Springer Book Archives titles by copyright year,
English
www.springer.com/bookarchives
Springer Book Archives
• ~110,000 high-quality books dating back to the 1840s• 45% of English SBA books published >1990• 85% of English/International SBA books >1980
Occam’s Reader
A collaboration between
Our vision stems from the idea that, “Other things being equal,
a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one.”
The Occam’s Reader Team
Occam’s Reader:An eBook Sharing Model
An integrated method for discovering, requesting,fulfilling, and viewing eBook content
• Quick access for patrons• Fast processing for libraries, lending and
borrowing• No cost/low cost for resource sharing side
Occam’s Reader Project
• 1 year pilot (April 2014 – March 2015)
• Demo / website www.OccamsReader.orgo PDF Content and list of titles (Springer)o ILLiad integration (TTU)o Discovery tool (TTU)o Simple Web Viewer (UHM)
• Integrated into current ILL request workflow
Model of Compromise
• Restricted access: one patron – one booko Weblink with password
• Time-limited like traditional ILLo Link expires
• Secured access on a remote servero View -onlyo No printing, no downloadingo Like reading a print booko Content auto-deleted from server
• Lendero Support for plain text and PDF eBookso Customizable image quality and text rendering settingso Complete ILLiad integration (as an add-on)
• Servero Secure online access to borrowed eBookso Occam's Reader interface discourages piracy through
simplicityo Usage tracking and statistics
• Borrowero At place of request the ILL staff has access to Occam’s
Reader discoverability serviceo Viewable on any device with an internet connectiono Ability to zoom, rotate, previous, next and jump to page
Current Features
Patron makes an ILL request in the normal manner, Borrowing staff confirms with add-on
ILL staff at the lending library receives the request in ILLiad
ILL staff activates the Occam's Reader ILLiad add-on and launches the Occam's Reader software
Occam's Reader processes the
request and uploads the eBook
Lending library sends an Occam's Reader generated
Borrowing library completes the request
How it works
Borrowing library receives the email with log in credentials and forwards it to the patron
LUA scriptPHP web pagesShares ILLiad data
Borrowing addon: discovery tool
Lending addon: software launcher, email generator
ILLiad Addon Integration
Windows .NETprogram launched from within ILLiad
Generates, archives, and uploads images
Prerequisites: Imagemagick, GhostScript, 7zip
The Conversion Software
• Function across all web browsers• Display PNG images• Zoom• Pan (move) across the page image• Rotate the page image• Navigate to next/previous pages• Jump to specific pages
OR Web Viewer Requirements
Occam’s Reader Web Viewer
OpenSeadragon + More
HTML5PHP
Javascript
Pilot Feedback Thus Far
• Latest usage statso 450 books shared as of Nov. 2014
• Feedbacko Acceptance and Use (no news = good news)o Only a few users really dislike read-only
• Challengeso Image conversion speed, image quality with
large files (file size ~ speed vs. image)
Breakdown of Loans by eBook
Type
31%
24%9%
8%
7%
7%
4%
4%2% 2% 1% 1% Contributed volume
Monograph
Handbook
Professional book
Graduate/advanced undergraduate text-bookProceedings
Encyclop(a)edia
Brief
Popular science
Undergraduate textbook
Reference work
Ph.D. Thesis
• Continue to refine the discovery layer • Improve the image conversion experience
• Display a preview of random pages to test image quality settings
• Add additional image quality settings• Split image conversion into smaller batches to improve
performance• Allow image conversion to run in the background or at
scheduled times
• Offer a “recommend for purchase” option after the item has been used via ILL
Future Goals
Future Goals, continued
• Support additional eBook formats other than PDF• Add options to enforce local lending policies
o Track the number of local userso Set a maximum number of ILL users o Limit number of checkouts per item
• Add watermark capability
Continuing Issues
• Open avenues for other direct collaborative projects between publishers and libraries
• Archive content for e-books in perpetuityo Who is responsible? Publishers, Libraries, Other?
• Build collaborative model for entire life cycle :creation ►distribution/sharing ► archiving
• Create CONTU-like guidelines for eBooks?o E.g., Over X # of eLoans, purchase eBook
Potential Future Uses
• Alternative model for discovery and content provision for publishers/authors
• Alternative delivery system for physical loanso Rare, fragile materials that cannot be loanedo Special collections that will not be loanedo Would provide a challenge to copyright law
interpretation -- If view-only, would this be considered redistributing
o Joni Blake Executive Director, Greater Western Library Alliance
o Ryan Litsey Assistant Librarian, Document Delivery, Texas Tech
o Kenny Ketner Software Development Manager, Texas Tech
o Erin Kim Information Technology Specialist, UH Mānoa
o Arthur Shum Educational Specialist, UH Mānoa
o Wing Leung Information Technology Specialist, UH Mānoa
o Naomi Chow Librarian, ILL/ESP, UH Mānoa
Thank you to the Occam’s Reader Team
Springer Science+Business Media
• Victor Laoo Director Library Sales, US and Canada
• Robert Boissyo Manager, Account Development and Strategic Alliance
Thank You
Naomi Chow Librarian, ILL/ESP
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
[email protected](808) 956-5951
Mitch MoultonAccount Development
SpecialistSpringer
[email protected](646) 200-1763