Summary of CBTF Ebook EXPENDITURE Survey Comments, May 2010

Please list up to 5 additional publishers for which OhioLINK deals would benefit your library:

Top 7:

• Wiley • Greenhaven • Lippincott • University of Chicago • Cambridge • Yale University • Gale

Please offer additional comments regarding OhioLINK central purchase or lease of ebooks.

• Purchase preferred (multiple mentions) • Leased okay in (multiple mentions) • Some areas (e.g. “area studies”) will likely o applied areas/tech remain print for some time o business o computer manuals • 5-10% of total budget spent on ebooks o legal would be a considerable commitment o health • Want to give OLink more money for ebooks • Maintain flexibility at local level • Improved search interface (multiple • Budget will impact this (multiple mentions) mentions) • Subject areas mentioned as desired: • Catalog records needed o art/design • Avoid duplication across deals o nursing/allied med • Personalized features (notes, highlighting, o computer manuals etc.) o reference • Ability to purchase ebooks at local level o certification with uptick price for all of OLink o technical (diagram/data heavy)

If your library does NOT purchase ebooks, it is because:

• Catalog issues • Unsure of the technology of supporting them • Main campus takes care of these deals • Prefer OLink deals due to lack of • Some models (netLibrary) not acceptable licensing/staffing support

If your library PURCHASES ebooks it is because:

• Prefer OLink, but have purchased some sets • Print is stolen in certain areas (although • One-time purchase of a large collection many users prefer print) • Content relevant regardless of format

Names of ebooks vendors from which individual titles have been purchased:

• ebrary (multiple mentions) • Uniworld • Gale (multiple mentions) • Rittenhouse • YBP (multiple mentions) • Ovid • netLibrary (multiple mentions) • Tumblebooks • Oxford (multiple mentions) • Mathews Medical Books • Cengage • Christian books via WALDO (New York • Publisher-direct consortium)

My library participates in non-OhioLINK consortial or cooperative ebook purchase plans with:

• Ohionet (multiple mentions) • CIC (EEBO, ECCO) • Association of Christian Librarians Theology Collection • Christian Library Consortium (netLibrary deal) • ebrary medical books deal in cooperation with Kent State

Purchased ebooks provided by:

• ProQuest (multiple mentions) • Ovid • Elsevier (multiple mentions) • Tumblebooks • EEBO (multiple mentions) • Sabin • ECCO (multiple mentions) • Early American Imprints • ebrary (multiple mentions) • Literature Criticism Online • Making of the Modern World • Dictionary of Literary Biography • Making of Modern Law • Rittenhouse • Sabin Americana from Gale • Rittenhouse, Tumblebooks • Amazon (Kindle) • Salem • Alexander Street Press • Greenwood • Readex • M.E. Sharpe • Johns Hopkins UP • Facts on File • Duke UP

• Rittenhouse

Additional comments about allocations of funds for PURCHASE of ebook content:

• Maintenance fees • Selectors encouraged to buy e-books rather • Limited ebook purchases locally thus far than print (multiple mentions) • We have special money for a deal, but needs • What about audiobooks? to be used soon • What about ebook reader formats? • Most print purchasing is in humanities then • Users prefer print social sciences • Ebooks good for reference, computer • Sciences more accepting of ebooks manuals books (multiple mentions) • Ebooks good for distance and point-of-need • Limited funds available (multiple mentions) • Don’t duplicate print content • Buying mostly large sets locally • Mostly leasing (medical) • Prefer OhioLINK deals

Library does NOT lease ebooks because:

• Catalog issues • Leasing unfamiliarity • Access issues • Main campus takes care of it

Library LEASES ebooks because:

• Budget won’t permit purchase • Better option for certain high-change • Desktop access subjects • Keyword searchability • Better for certain titles • Included with other databases (such as • Print may be stolen medical) • Support online/distance education • Only available as leased

If your library participates in any consortial or cooperative ebook lease plans outside of OhioLINK ((e.g. through CIC, Oberlin Group, OHIONET, etc.), please name & briefly describe parameters of plan:

• Ohionet (multiple mentions) • Work with a small group of other OLink institutions

Library currently LEASES ebooks from:

• Elsevier(multiple mentions) • Tumblebooks • McGraw-Hill (multiple mentions) • Sage • Britannica • ABC-CLIO • Statref • BC Decker • Ovid • MD Consult

Please offer additional comments regarding your library's allocation of funds for LEASE OF or SUBSCRIPTION TO ebook content.

• Leasing better for certain subjects (nursing, sci-tech, business, Google Books, non- circulating, etc.) • ebrary is good • Purchase preferred over leasing • Money is limited • Post-cancellation access • Users prefer print for studying/reading

Reference or “by chapter” need books good targets for ebook