22-Nov-16 | SOAS E-books Workshop | Slide 1

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Workshop Agenda

• Update on the project
• JISC E-books UK Roadshow
• Group activity
• Results of the first user survey
• Any thoughts?

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The national e-books observatory
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Why the project?

• E-book pricing models are not satisfactory (64)
• There is too little choice of e-book titles (62)
• E-book access models are not satisfactory (53)
• Publishers are not making the right textbooks
  electronically available on the right terms
• Different selling chain
• What business models? What licensing models?
• Dont know enough about e-book users

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Project Aims

• license collections of e-books that are highly
  relevant to UK higher education taught course
  students in four discipline areas
• Business and Management studies
• Engineering
• Medicine (not mental health or nursing)
• Media Studies
• evaluate the use of the e-books through deep log
  analysis and to asses the impact of the free at
  the point of use e-books upon publishers,
  aggregators and libraries
• transfer knowledge acquired in the project to
  publishers, aggregators and libraries to help
  stimulate an e-books market that has appropriate
  business and licensing models

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Why the DLA study?

• map the virtual user in real time so we can see
  the impacts very quickly and make changes
  according to the data if we see that the users
  are not using the e-books we can find out why and
  make appropriate changes.
• allow us to base future decisions on real data,
  on a real understanding of what our users needs
  are.
• identify best practice in terms of promotion,
  discovery, access models institutions can
  experiment themselves with different promotional
  methods and watch the effects.
• opportunity to get the business, licensing and
  pedagogic models for e-books right from the very
  start, rather than seek to review and correct
  with the benefit of hindsight.
• allow us to really connect with the users as
  knowledge of what they are doing, who they are,
  how they use e-books and what they want will
  improve the services provided to them

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Where we are now
MyiLibrary

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JISC E-books UK Roadshow
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Librarians and their views
12 workshops 250 librarians from 131
institutions
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Librarians and their views

• I believe that my library should cover the costs
  to provide students with access to their course
  texts online, free at the point of use.
• 90 of librarians agreed with this statement
• I believe that my library should provide students
  with access to their course texts online, but
  that the costs should be shared between the
  library, the department and the student.
• 7 of librarians agreed with this statement
• I believe that my library should provide students
  with access to their course texts online, but
  that the library should not have to pay and
  students should be charged.
• 3 of librarians agreed with this statement

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What is your utopia for the future of e-textbooks?

• The textbook should be in whatever form staff
  and students require, at anytime, in any format.
  You only have to buy it once and you always get
  multiple concurrent usage. There is an automatic
  free replacement of new editions and the old
  edition is placed in a central archive accessible
  for free by all education institutions. You can
  choose what platform you want to access the
  titles on but all titles will be available on all
  platforms. All platforms will have the same
  adopted standards and accessible versions will be
  available for all titles and audio versions.
  Staff and students can personalise the
  functionality of the platforms and integrate
  e-books with their VLEs easily and quickly.
  Everything will have excellent metadata and
  everything will be interoperable, seamless and
  easy to use.

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What is your utopia for the future of e-textbooks?

• The e-book in the future will be content
  aggregated from a variety of formats and with a
  multi functional purpose that is not centred
  around reading but around interactivity with the
  learner the aim being to provide the learner
  with all their content needs, in a way that suits
  their learning styles, the assessment
  requirements of the course they are on and the
  personalised, easy to use interface that fits
  with their lifestyles.

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What is your utopia for the future of e-textbooks?

• There will be an internet price comparison
  website with a checklist of business and
  licensing options for librarians to choose from.
  You will simply select what you want, on what
  platform, add it to your shopping cart and
  directly download the quality assured metadata
  (that is available in the same place) into the
  library catalogue. The interface will be
  standardised so staff and students know how to
  use it and the terms and conditions of use will
  all be the same too.

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What is your utopia for the future of e-textbooks?

• All e-textbooks will be open access or part open
  access!!!

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Group Activity

• At each workshop, after coming up with their
  utopias, the librarians were asked to come up
  with their top 5 drivers that would help reach
  their utopias
• I have identified the 10 most popular drivers
  and ranked them according to the number of times
  they were mentioned at the workshops. I would
  like you, in your groups, to stick the drivers on
  the purple sheet in the same ranked
  order.essentially which drivers do you think
  librarians said were the most important out of
  the top 10?
• The group that gets it right, or closest will
  win..

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The correct answer.

1. Better Technology
2. Student Expectations
3. Publisher Buy-In
4. Updated Teaching Styles
5. Standardisation of Standards

• Author Buy-In
• Budgets
• Space
• New Business Models
• Open Access

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User Survey

• Initial benchmark against which to measure
  changes as the JISC national e-books observatory
  project progresses.
• The survey was circulated to the 127 HE
  institutions participating in the project and
  gathered information on current user awareness,
  perceptions and attitudes towards e-books.
• Over 20,000 responses were received to the survey
  making it one of the largest e-book surveys ever
  undertaken.

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User Survey The Headlines

• 60 of respondents use e-books
• 45.8 find e-books through their library, 42.6
  find them free on the internet
• 38.6 user spend more than 20 minutes reading
  online
• 54.7 dip in and out of the e-books, 8 read a
  whole chapter, 5.8 read the book
• 75.9 of staff were aware of the e-books licensed
  as part of the JISC project
• Students are borrowing books from friends and
  through the library more frequently than
  purchasing them 40 as opposed to 3

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Your thoughts?

• Keep up to date at www.jiscebooksproject.org
• Caren Milloy c.milloy_at_jisc.ac.uk