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VOLUME 33, NUMBER 4
SEPTEMBER 2021 TM
“Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians”
ISSN: 1043-2094
eBooks in Academic Libraries: The Librarians’ Perspective By David Gibbs (Interim Associate Dean, University Library, California State University, Sacramento) <david.gibbs@csus.edu>
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perspectives of publishers. It is my hope that publishers will respond directly to the critiques and suggestions raised by the librarians in this issue.
This is the first in a two-part series on the state of eBooks in academic libraries 20 years in. This first issue takes the perspective of academic librarians: what is working and what isn’t on the academic eBook front? The follow-up issue, in February 2022, will present the
Most of the articles here address the eBook experience at a particular institution, and I have attempted to include a range of academic library perspectives. Debbie Dinkins recounts the history of eBook acquisition at a small undergraduate-focused institution, where demand-driven acquisition (DDA) has allowed the library to provide instant access to a larger pool of monographs
t has been just over 20 years since eBooks first made their entrée into academic library collections. Since then, libraries have struggled to promote awareness of eBooks, understand and manage user expectations, navigate often frustrating and confusing digital rights management (DRM) software, and find the right balance between print and electronic collections on a limited budget.
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appy Fall Everyone! Hope you have enjoyed your summer. There is much to talk about and a limited amount of space, so let’s dive right in!
Announcements and Congratulations Clarivate has named Elena Pallari, postgraduate researcher at University College London, as the recipient of the 2021 Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis. Launched in 2017, the award recognizes early-career scientists developing innovative approaches to citation analysis that improve how the impact of scientific research is measured. Ms. Pallari will receive $25,000 for her proposal for innovation in clinical research assessment. Her plans to evaluate methodological research impact in
clinical trials will help us learn from past trials and quickly adopt and adjust them in order to speed up medical advances, while also measuring and improving their influence on funding, policy, practice and health outcomes. This type of work in health sciences is especially relevant amidst a global pandemic when clinical trials are conducted at enormous speed. Congratulations to the bam zowie Jason Price for 15 years as an academic library consortium administrator, science librarian, and data analyst at Research & Scholarly Communication Director at SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium)! continued on page 6
than ever before. Keri Prelitz and Ann Roll take a deeper dive into DDA to assess the cost-effectiveness of short-term loans at their university. Ramune Kubilius and Tim Butzen-Cahill provide a twenty-year longitudinal assessment of the availability of core eBooks in the health sciences. The final two articles explicitly call for publishers to modify current practices: Michael Rodriguez presents a case for allowing libraries to share whole eBooks via interlibrary loan, and I make an argument for bundling the sale of print and eBook titles.
What To Look For In This Issue: Dance and Copyright................. 26 Q&A — Copyright Column........ 28 For the Love of Books................. 30 Hum: A Unifying Tune for Societies and Associations?....... 44 TOC for ATG Online Articles..... 32
Interviews BibliU and Kanopy.................... 39 Colleen Campbell...................... 54 Greg Eow................................... 56
Profiles Encouraged People, Library and Company Profiles...................................... 58 Plus more...................... See inside
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