Ebooks Thinking One Person at UCLA Library

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E-books Thinking - One Person at UCLA Library

• Stephen H. Schwartz, Phd, MBA
• Head of System Development

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Speaker Background/Bias

• Systems Scientist
• Businessman Profit and Non
• UCLA Library 8 years. Ridding the disruptive
  web technology horse YEHAW!.
• Active in E-resource, Web Usage, Access
  Integration, Digital Library and Course
  Management - systems management and standards
  designs

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Outline of E-book UCLA Issues/ Trends

• E-book Selection Thinking Today win win
• User Preference Trends
• Access Integration models support for
• E-resource/E-book Life Cycle management
• Authentication/Authorization trends
• Standards Open/ XML /OAI/OKI/SOAP
• Fee/ License models site licenses

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Current Library Selection Thinking

• Currently 400 e-texts in our E-resources db
• More coming ( 14,000 coming months)
• University Press, Proceedings Gov Docs, Society
  Standards, Reference Books, Literature on Line
  (LION)
• Critical collections of books?
• Leverage the power of
• Speed/efficiency of access,
• Convenience (middle of night) and
• Keyword search (analysis).

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Recent Usage Data on E-Journal replacing Print gt
E-books?

• UCs Collection Management Initiative - Gary
  Lawrence Conclusions
• Bottom Line E-journals are very popular
• Faculty only screamed a very little
• Campuses which removed print had higher use of
  e-journals by 60. Only a very few print
  requests at these campuses.
• Digital use is higher than for the same print
• 10x on average
• 33x for Sciences

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Recent Usage Data on E-Journal replacing Print gt
E-books?

• Sample of users heavy on grads and faculty.
• E-j is more widely used than print
• Acceptance is high (faculty slightly
  conservative)
• E-j is favored for research
• Convenience is biggest factor
• Major barrier is screen reading and paging
• Office and home is major use point (1/2 have high
  speed). Proxy/authentication is an issue
• One faculty diffacknowledge deficiency in skills
• Note UC will keep one (1) shared print cc for
  all campuses

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Metadata Oh Yea, but How much?

• Discovery None to More shifting thinking -
  pro and con
• If Little use keyword
• If Lots (DC, MARC) for subject browsing. But
  remember We do not know what terms to browse in
  the future but we can keyword anything.
• Metadata cost money - so at least keyword
• Identifiers for matching and de-dubing OCLA,
  ISSN, DOI??

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Access Integration and Life Cycles E-book support

• Have learned that the data model for supporting
  e-resources is fundamentally different than print
• E.g Packages, coverage, dynamic nature of links
• Therefore Think both Catalog and specialty
  databases for electronic resources accessed via
  Portal for integration and de- dubing
• E.g. Tim Jewels work at UW (with UCLA and other
  large academics) new standards for metadata
• Consider sending XML data which constantly
  updates
• Titles available in package
• Key metadata and
• Access restrictions and privacy statements

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Developing Web System Environment

• XML
• OAI Open Archive Initiative (XML)
• OKI and IMS/CMS
• SOAP
• Web Services

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What Fee Structure ?

• Big Disincentive Current -number of
  simultaneous user limits
• Go for Site License based on size of campus
  community/ class

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Sifting Access Control Models

• Currently use in IP ranges
• Building Campus Authentication and Authorization
  systems
• in test as simple Web Service
• Future - Shibboleth (Liberty Alliance) standards
  federated authentication singe sign on to
  validate a class participant

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Library E-book Conclusions/ Predictions

• Prediction E-books will follow on success of
  E-journals
• Recommendation more open fee structure
• Recommendation access controls are coming
  meanwhile error on the side of Fair Use and build
  market/mind share
• Prediction Keep them E-books coming we will
  buy them someday !