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Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014 Publishers, and Consortium Collaborate: The Occam’s Reader Project

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Page 1: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 2: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 3: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 4: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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?

Page 5: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

Exploring eBook Loans

Collaboratively

• Positive/negative impact on publisher sales?• Acceptance by patrons?• Acceptance by libraries & ILL staff?

eLoans?!

Page 6: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 7: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 8: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 9: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 10: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 11: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 12: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 13: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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.”

Page 14: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

The Occam’s Reader Team

Page 15: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 16: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 17: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 18: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

• 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

Page 19: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

email

Borrowing library completes the request

How it works

Borrowing library receives the email with log in credentials and forwards it to the patron

Page 20: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

LUA scriptPHP web pagesShares ILLiad data

Borrowing addon: discovery tool

Lending addon: software launcher, email generator

ILLiad Addon Integration

Page 21: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

Windows .NETprogram launched from within ILLiad

Generates, archives, and uploads images

Prerequisites: Imagemagick, GhostScript, 7zip

The Conversion Software

Page 22: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

• 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

Page 23: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

Occam’s Reader Web Viewer

OpenSeadragon + More

HTML5PHP

Javascript

Page 24: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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)

Page 25: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 26: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

• 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

Page 27: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 28: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 29: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 30: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

Page 31: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

Springer Science+Business Media

• Victor Laoo Director Library Sales, US and Canada

• Robert Boissyo Manager, Account Development and Strategic Alliance

Page 32: Naomi Chow UH Mānoa Hamilton Library ILL/ESP Librarian Mitch Moulton Springer Science+Business Media Account Development Specialist HLA, December 5, 2014

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

[email protected]