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Ebooks in education. Realising the vision

“University leaders and managers concern themselves with developments that align with institutions’ strategic priorities, deliver competitive advantage, improve teaching and research performance, reduce costs and enhance value for money. Ebooks have the potential to engage with all these strategic priorities. Following the successful integration of ejournals into the academic workflow, ebooks promise much to universities aspiring to enhance students’ educational experience, enrich research resources and streamline services.”

Woodward, H. 2014. Ebooks in education: Realising the vision. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org//10.5334/bal 

TABLE DES MATIERES

Foreword (Professor Madeleine Atkins CBE, Chief Executive, Higher Education Funding Council for England) v

Ebooks in higher education: a strategic priority? (Christine Fyfe, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester) 1

Ebooks in further education (David Scott, Head of Learner Services, Dundee and Angus College) 9

Ebooks and the distance learner (Claire Grace, Head of Content and Licensing and Gill Needham, Associate Director, The Open University Library) 15

Ebooks: the learning and teaching perspective (Suzanne Enright, Director of Information Services, University of Westminster) 21

Ebooks and accessibility (Alistair McNaught, Senior Advisor, Jisc TechDis and Huw Alexander, Digital Sales Manager, SAGE Publications) 35

Academic ebooks and the mobile user experience (Mark Williams, UK Access Management Federation Operator Manager, Jisc Collections and Ben Showers, Head of Scholarly and Library Futures, Jisc) 51

Ebooks acquisition as a shared service (John Tuck, Director of Library Services, Royal Holloway University of London) 59

CASE STUDIES 69

Ebooks at the University of Portsmouth: a ten year success story (Anne Worden, Faculty Librarian, University of Portsmouth) 71

Instant fulfilment: the successful use of patron driven acquisition to satisfy interlibrary loans (Annette Moore, Technical Service Librarian, University of Sussex) 79

Creating open access books: a partnership between a university library and a research centre (Janet Aucock, Head of Cataloguing and Repository Service, University of St Andrews) 91

“Zap our App!” (Janet Morgan, Liz Chester, Jean Sullivan and Elaine Edwards, Coleg Sir Gâr) 105

A living open book (Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University) 113

The Plymouth ebook project (Philip Gee, Associate Professor in Psychology, Plymouth University) 119

E-textbooks at Coventry University: a pilot project (Sandy Forster, Information Resource Manager, Coventry University) 125

Index 131

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