An Overview of EBL

CIBER / Caspur Meeting

November 21st, 2007

Agenda

Introduction • Brief Overview of EBL• Access Models • Features• Demand-Driven Options• Pricing• Questions

About Ebooks Corporation Founded 1997 by Australian Booksellers

HQ in Australia – operations in US, UK

Hosting content for 450+ Publishers

eBooks.com – launched 2000 ~ 85,000 titles / customers worldwide

EBL – launched end of 2004 Collaborative approach – CERN, Yale, others ~ 65,000 titles / 230 publishers Customers in US, AU/NZ, EU, UK, CA, Asia,

Africa

eB20 Publisher Services eBookstore for Cambridge University Press eBookstore for Australia’s largest bookseller

Before we get started…

“Is anyone using ebooks?”

Download vs. Read Online% Download 46%% Read Online 54%

Average time spent reading online 36.6 minutes (per patron per 24 hour)Longest session (24 hours) / title 689 minutes (11 hours / 29 minutes)Percentage sessions over 1 hour 16%Average # pages accessed / session 18 pages

Growth – 2006 to 2007 (comparing same libraries – October usage)

Ebook usage increased 465%

Some usage stats from last year…

EBL Content

65,000+ titles –scholarly monographs / professional titles

Quality / recent publications

All academic subject areas – strong focus STM

Adding ~2,000 titles/month

230 international publishers

Academic / professional focus – all subject areas

EBL title list can be found at www.EBLChoice.com

Publishers Represented

• Aarhus University Press

• ABC Clio

• Abingdon Press

• Aboriginal Studies Press

• Academic Press

• Adams Media

• ALA Editions, American Library Association

• Algora Publishing

• Allen & Unwin

• AMACOM

• American Legacy Media

• American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

• Architectural Press

• Artech House

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

• Auerbach Publications

• Ausmed Publications

• Australian Academic Press

• Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Press

• Autumn Hills Books

• Ayurveda Holistic Center Press

• B&T Database Management

• Baylor University Press

• Berg Publishers

• Berrett Koehler

• BIOS Scientific Publishers

• Birkbeck Law Press

• Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

• Bloomberg Press

• Bloomberg Press

• Blue Poppy Press

• Boson Books

• Boydell & Brewer Ltd.

• Brepols Publishers

• Brill Academic Publishers

• Brookings Institution Press

• Brookside Press

• Brunner-Routledge

• Butterworth-Heinemann

• CABI

• Cambridge International Science Publishing

• Cambridge University Press

• Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine

• Capstone Press

• CATO Institute

• CCC Publishing

• Chapman & Hall/CRC

• Chicago Review Press

• Class Publishing (London) Ltd.

• Cliffs Notes

• Communication Research Institute Limited (Australia)

• CRC Press

• Crossway Books

• Crown House Publishing Limited

• CSIRO Publishing

• Cyan Publishers

• Dearborn Trade Publishing

• Demos Medical Publishers

• Digital Press

• Digital Press

• Dorling Kindersley

• eContent Management Pty Ltd.

• Edinburgh University Press

• EDP Sciences

• Edward Elgar Publishing

• Electric Book Company

• Electronic & Database Publishing Inc.

• Elsevier Science & Technology

• Emerald Group Publishing

• Emery Publishing

• Ernest Mitchell Publishers

• Europa Publications

• F.A. Davis Company

• Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF)

• FingerTip Press

• Firenze University Press• Fitzroy Dearborn

• Focal Press

• Frank Cass

• Fremantle Arts Centre Press

• Garland Science

• Glasshouse Press

• GMB Publishing

• Gordon and Breach

• Greenwood Publishing Group

• Guildford Press

• Guilford Publications

• Gulf Professional Publishing

• Hackett Publishing Company

• Hart Publishing Ltd.

• Haworth Press, The

• Helicon

• Holy Macro! Books

• Horizon

• HRD Press

• Hungry Minds

• Icon Books

• ICON Group International Inc.

• Idea Group, Inc.

• IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.

• Imperial College Press

• Indiana University Press

• Infinity Science Press

• Infobase Publishing

• Infosential Press

• Infostrategist.com

• Insomniac Press

• Institute of Career Research

• Intellect Books

• Int’l Development Research Centre

• Intercultural Press

• IOS Press

• ISTE

• Jessica Kingsley Publishers

• JIST

• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (USA)

• John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (UK)

• John Wisden & Co Ltd.

• Joshua James Press

• Jossey-Bass

• Karger

• Kluwer Academic Publishing

• Kogan Page

Publishers Represented• Kugler Publications

• Kumarian Press

• Lakeview Research

• Larkfield Publishing

• Landes Bioscience Publishing

• Lantern Books

• Lawrence Erlbaum

• Lewis Publishers

• LifePath Publishing

• Lightbulb Press

• Limelight Media

• Manchester University Press

• Marcel Dekker Inc.

• Martin Books

• Mattily Publishing

• Mayo Clinic Scientific

• Maximum Press

• Melbourne University Publishing

• M.E. Sharpe, Inc.

• Monash University ePress

• Morgan Kaufmann

• Multilingual Matters

• National Research Council (NRC) Research Press, Canada

• National Science Teachers Association

• New Society Publishers

• Newnes

• Nicholas Brealey Publishing

• No Starch Press

• Nolo

• Nomad Press

• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

• Nova Press

• Now Publishers

• Open University Press

• Opera Journeys Publishing

• Orchard Publications

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• Out of Your Mind…and Into the Market

• Oxford University Press

• Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

• Palgrave Macmillan USA

• Pan American Health Organization

• Pandanus Books

• Patria Press

• Pergamon

• Pickering & Chatto Publishers

• Pluto Press

• Practical Psychology Press

• Prep Publishing

• Princeton Book Company

• Profile Books

• Psychology Press

• Rampant Tech Press

• RAND Corporation

• Redmond Technology Press

• Remedica Medical Education and Publishing

• Rosetta Books

• Routledge

• Routledge-Cavendish Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd

• Routledge-Cavendish Publishing Ltd

• RoutledgeCurzon

• RoutledgeFalmer

• Rowmark

• Rutgers University Press

• Saddleback Educational Publishing

• Sage Publications

• Shell Education

• Silver Lake Publishing

• Spon Press

• Springer Publishing Company

• Springer-Verlag

• St Lucie Press

• Stanford University Press

• Stenhouse Publishers

• Summersdale

• Swets & Zeitlinger

• Syngress Publishing

• Taylor & Francis Ltd.

• Taylor & Francis, A Martin Dunitz book

• Taylor & Francis, A Parthenon book

• Temple University Press

• Templeton Foundation Press

• Texas State Technical College

• Thieme

• Thorogood Publishing Ltd.

• Tiger of the Stripe

• Treasures Media

• UCL Press

• United Nations University Press

• University of California Press

• University of Minnesota Press

• University of Nebraska Press

• University of New South Wales Press

• University of North Texas

• University of Wales Press

• University Press of Florida

• Utah State University Press

• Walter de Gruyter

• Woodhead Publishing

• World Health Organization (WHO Press)

• World Scientific

• Zenith Publishing Group

• Zephyr Press

EBL – A Brief Overview of model

Title-by-title selection (not subscription)

Pricing for ebooks similar to print list price

Titles are owned by library in perpetuity once purchased

Multiple-concurrent access to all titles – Non-linear access model

Some titles available as unlimited access as well

Online & offline reading solutions

No minimum purchase requirement

Customizable demand-driven acquisition options (ILL alternative)

Non-linear Lending

Overview of features – for the patron

Simple and intuitive interface

No Proprietary Software (no plug-in)

Full-text search

Free browsing of all content

Offline and online reading solution (ebooks can be downloaded)

Ability to add notes to text and save

Read Aloud available for all titles (for visually impaired students)

Federated search and OpenURL linking through link-resolvers

Easy access to help guides and support

Overview of features – for the librarian

Custom branding of EBL web-site – library can add logo

Free browsing of all content in catalogue

Perpetual ownership and archiving

Chapter-level reserve & coursepacks

Free EBL MARC or OCLC MARC

Real-time usage statistics and invoice reports

New title and system alerts (customisable settings)

Options for deposit account

EBL’s Demand-driven Acquisition Explained

EBL’s Demand-driven acquisition allows libraries to make ebooks visible to patrons without purchasing the titles outright. Titles can then be ‘rented’ or purchased according to pre-defined rules as needed by patrons.

– Access to non-owned titles either through OPAC (by loading MARC records) and/or within the EBL platform

– Non-owned titles allow free browsing for up to 5 minutes

– Libraries can decide what permissions apply for further access• Automatic pay-per-view• Patron may request title (mediated access)• Purchase or auto-purchase at designated level of use

Examples of Demand-driven Acquisition Brown University (USA)

Loaded all EBL titles loaded in OPAC as MARC

MARC for new titles sent monthly by EBL

Automatic pay-per view for non-owned titles

Auto-purchase set on 4th access of title

Swinburne University (Australia)

All EBL titles loaded in OPAC as MARC

MARC for new titles sent monthly by EBL

Automatic pay-per-view for non-owned titles

Auto-purchase set on 3rd access of title

CERN (Switzerland)

Selected and purchased core titles upfront

Loaded 10,000 MARC records for non-owned titles based on profile (dewey ranges)

Monthly MARC updates sent based on pre-defined profile

Automatic pay-per-view for non-owned titles / Auto-purchase on 2nd STL

Why Libraries are Using Demand-driven

Benefits of demand-driven access…

• Provides widest selection of titles available to patrons

• Budget goes toward funding what actually gets used

• Titles purchased on-demand have higher use - (5x higher than pre-selected titles)

• Eliminates time required for selectors to search for titles and purchase

• Patrons access most up to date content - new titles are immediately available when added to catalogue

• EBL profiling tools create a build-in ‘approval plan’

• Seamless access/workflow for patrons

• Provides alternative to ILL

Trends in Usage of Demand-driven Access

2006/2007 = 25% demand-driven / 75% upfront purchase

2007/08 (to date) = 67% demand-driven / 33% upfront purchase

Pricing

2 Components to Pricing– Platform / Maintenance Fee– Content – purchase / pay-per-view

• Platform Fee – 2 options– Paid upfont = low one time payment– Paid incrementally = as a 15% fee on top of content purchases

to a capped amount (once cap is reach, platform fee is paid)

• Maintenance Fee = due 1 year after platform fee is paid in full– Paid upfront = low-cost / one-time annual payment– Paid incrementally = 15% on top of content purchase to a

capped amount (once reached, maintenance fee is paid for year)

• Pricing offers flexible options for libraries – Small libraries with small collections pay smaller

platform/maintenance fees– Demand-Driven = pay as you go

Pricing – Demand-Driven

Pricing for short-term loan is generally as follows:

- 1 day STL = 10-15% of ebook price- 1 week STL = 15-20% of ebook price- 2 week STL = 20–25% of ebook price- 4 week STL = 25-30% of ebook price

• Deposit accounts can be set-up. EBL can sent expenditure alerts.

•Short-term loans and auto-purchases billed monthly (or more frequently if needed).

• Full invoice report of activity available within EBL LibCentral in real time.

Some Reviews

Against the Grain – June, 2006“A Notable Exception”

“In the future, more innovative licensing models such as EBL’s “Non-Linear Lending” are more than likely going to be much more popular as librarians and vendors seek to balance the needs of users and the desires of copyright holders.”

ALA’s Choice – June, 2007ALA Choice rates EBL “Highly Recommended”

“Launched in July 2004, EBL has incorporated the best features of earlier entrants into the market while correcting some glaring annoyances.”

Contact Us

Kari Paulsonkari.paulson@eblib.comwww.eblib.comTel: (301) 760-4922 

Anna MerloCenforamerlo@cenfor.it Tel: 010 313567

Online:www.EBLib.com – websitewww.EBLchoice.com – public catalogue

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