Academic E-Books Stepping up to the Challenge / edited by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon. [print]

Publishers' and vendors' products and services-- An industry perspective: publishing in the digital age/ Nadine Vassallo-- The journey beyond print: perspectives of a commercial publisher in the academic market/ Rhonda Herman-- The university press perspective on e-books in libraries: production, marketing, and legal challenges/ Tony Sanfilippo-- Delivering American Society for Microbiology e-books to libraries/ Christine B Charlip-- Platform diving: a day in the life of an academic e-book aggregator / Bob Nardini-- Librarians' challenges-- University of California, Merced: primarily an electronic library/ Jim Dooley-- Patron-driven acquisitions: assessing and sustaining a long-term PDA e-book program/ Karen S. Fischer-- Use and cost analysis of e-books: patron-driven acquisitions plan vs librarian-selected titles/ Suzanne M. Ward and Rebecca A. Richardson-- E-books across the consortium: reflections and lessons from a three-year DDA experiment at the Orbis Cascade Alliance/ Kathleen Carlisle Fountain-- The simplest explanation: Occam's reader and the future of interlibrary loan and e-books/ Ryan Litsey, Kenny Ketner, Joni Blake, and Anne McKee-- Developing a global e-book collection: an exploratory study/ Dracine Hodges-- Users' experiences-- A social scientist uses e-books for research and in the classroom/ Ann-Marie Clark-- The user experience of e-books in academic libraries: perception, discovery and use/ Tao Zhang and Xi Niu-- E-book reading practices in different subject areas: an exploratory log analysis/ Robert S. Freeman and E. Stewart Saunders-- Library e-book platforms are broken: let's fix them/ Joelle Thomas and Galadriel Chilton-- Case studies-- A balancing act: promoting Canadian scholarly e-books while controlling user access/ Ravit H. David-- Of Euripides and e-books: the digital future and our hybrid present/ Lidia Uziel, Laureen Esser, and Matthew Connor Sullivan-- Transitioning to e-books at a medium-sized academic library: challenges and opportunities: a feasibility study on psychology collection/ Aiping Chen-Gaffey-- E-books and a distance education program: a library's failure rate in supplying course readings for one program/ Judith M. Nixon-- Mobile access to academic e-book content: a Ryerson investigation/ Naomi Eichenlaub and Josephine Choi-- E-reader checkout program/ Vincci Kwong and Susan Thomas-- Out with the print and in with the e-book: a case study in mass replacement of a print collection/ Stephen Maher and Neil Romanosky-- Epilogue/ Michael Levine-Clark-- Contributors.

"Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences. Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users' experiences with scholarly works"--