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E-book news from Collection Management

by lener, posted on April 9, 2014

Collection Management has continued to expand our available eBook collections and options in the first quarter of 2014. New eBook resources and packages are now available through YBP and Gale. New title lists for renewed Springer and Elsevier eBook packages are also available. All eBook titles are discoverable in Summon. Read below for more details.

GOBI – New publisher direct options for firm ordered eBooks are now available in GOBI. The Oxford UPSO platform, Elsevier, World Scientific Publishing, IGI Global, and Palgrave Macmillan are among the new YBP partners.

UDA – Collections has signed on to a new eBook program with Gale/Cengage. The Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) has a new platform called User Driven Acquisitions, UDA. More than 2,000 Gale titles are included in this collection. UDA allows us to purchase e-books based on our actual usage. We deposit funds upfront, use the platform for one year, and at the end of the term can select titles to purchase from among those with high usage.

Springer – VIVA has continued four statewide packages for 2014: Behavioral Science, Biomedical and Life Science, Computer Science, and Earth and Environmental Science. The Lecture Notes are included in the Computer Science package. And, the 2005 Archives are available for all four subject areas. To view the title lists refer to:http://www.vivalib.org/licensed/collect/titlelists/Springer/Springer_FY14_titlelist.xlsx.

Elsevier – VIVA has also continued with the frontlist package from Elsevier which encompasses a broad range of subjects. To view the Frontlist of eBooks for 2014 refer to: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/sciencedirect/books/titles