The Evolution of E-books and Interlibrary Loan in Academic Libraries

Wicht, Heather

doi:10.29087/2011.3.4.06

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“…Our study on researches in e-book models showed that this research topic was less well considered. As shown in Appendix A1, some of the research studies were devoted to collection development such as resource selection strategy, e-resource management, to discover users’ experience on using e-books, e-book preservation (Ebook Strategy Working Group, 2014), some others dealt with to e-book pricing models (Hardy et al , 2002; Oppenheim et al , 2001; Wicht, 2011) and just one research dealt with publishers’ e-book models (Thomson, 2014).…”

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“…Research results showed the economic, technological, licensing and management factors effect on pricing models (Oppenheim et al , 2001) showing that different pricing models can be used in the e-book domain. Models should be simple, understandable to all, transparent for all stakeholders and suitable for existing and future technologies (Oppenheim et al , 2001); in addition, they should consider and analyze short-term pricing models, order and print on demand and consortium purchase (Wicht, 2011). Moreover, Ebook Strategy Working Group (2014) also states that e-book content should have simultaneous user access, be free of digital rights management restrictions with downloadable PDF format, be printable as well as have other user friendly features.…”

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E-lending in digital libraries: a systematic review

Alipour-Hafezi

Khedmatgozar

2016

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to systematically review e-lending research studies in the digital library domain to identify their subjects, existing research gap and their research methods. Design/methodology/approach This is a systematic review. Through several stages of searching in related databases, 30 research works including journal and conference research papers, theses and dissertations, research and technical reports were identified and reviewed based on the guidelines of systematic review protocols. Findings It was found that research in e-lending domain is growing, and the subject will receive greater attention in the near future. Studies were in the following four categories: e-books (specifications, creation and software and viewpoints), business models, e-book status in libraries and copyright issues, e-book lending and inter-library loan. Some research gaps were identified including e-lending domain, business models and legislation. Little has been done with qualitative and mixed approaches in terms of research methods. Moreover, findings showed that this area has received less attention in developing countries. Originality/value This is the first review of the e-lending domain in digital libraries. It identifies the key works related to e-lending, categorizes them, provides an overview and identifies emerging research issues.

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E-lending in digital libraries: a systematic review

Alipour-Hafezi

Khedmatgozar

2016

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“…Interlibrary loans are a long-established practice used to fulfill patron needs that are unmet by local collections. Despite the success of regional and national resource sharing networks for e-journal articles as well as books in print, the burgeoning acceptance of e-books over the past twenty years has presented unique challenges to interlibrary loan efforts (Frederiksen et al 2011;Horava 2009;Machovec 2013;Percy 2013;Walters 2013;Walters 2014;Wicht 2011;Zhu 2018). In order to advance and protect information equity in higher education, librarians must champion the right to share the entirety of both purchased and licensed e-books through interlibrary loan workflows and technologies.…”

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Toward information equity among academic libraries

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2022

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For two decades, publishers and vendors have used e-book licenses to back academic libraries into a corner. These rightsholders and intermediaries lease rather than sell content, and they dictate what constitutes permitted downstream usages. Libraries have historically used interlibrary loans to fill gaps in collections, but publishers and vendors unilaterally claim that interlibrary loans of entire e-books infringe on their exclusive rights. As a result, libraries at small and mid-sized colleges and universities are constrained to providing patrons access only to e-books that fall within the limits of modest collections budgets. Grounded on the premise that e-book interlibrary loans are needed to advance and protect information equity in higher education, this presentation invites interdisciplinary discussions and collaboration with respect to the future of resource sharing in academic libraries.

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“…Finally, it should be noted that a growing area of research in this field is the possibility of Interlibrary Lending e-books using tools such as Occam's Reader [17]- [21], though these resources are not addressed in this study.…”

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Board 78: ILL Communication: Analyzing Five Years of Iowa State University's Print Interlibrary Loan Requests

Schares

2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service offered by libraries to supply patrons with materials which are not immediately available for lending. This could be for many reasons; the library might not own the item, the library may own a copy but it is already checked out to another patron, or the assignment of a required but expensive textbook spurs high demand for a particular title. Analysis of historical ILL request data is a useful exercise to undertake as each request represents a patron with an information need which was not able to be immediately filled by the library's collection. Each ILL request comes with a guaranteed circulation of at least one interested patron, and the request information is compiled in a dataset and preserved. Loans which are not able to be filled are still recorded and included in the dataset. Investigating trends and tendencies of a user base through this data can lead to more informed collection development practices, and understanding these data sets can reveal gaps in coverage or highlight areas where the user community may find the collection lacking. This study is an analysis of five years worth of Iowa State University's ILL requests of print books, spanning calendar years 2013-2017. 18,841 borrowing requests were analyzed, and monograph title data available for conducting this analysis include loan author, title, year, publisher, edition, and lender library. Patron information includes department affiliation and status; no further identifying information is recorded in the dataset used here. This analysis focuses mostly on requests made by patrons from engineering departments, and it analyzes trends over time by constructing visualizations to look at: • the most active academic departments and their request activity over time • the most heavily requested titles • requests by patron status (undergraduate, graduate, faculty, staff, unaffiliated) • the total number of requests made over time • what peer libraries are used to fill the requests This work focuses on requests for print books only; the scope does not include electronically delivered PDF journal articles, book chapters, or conference proceedings. The analysis is done in the statistical software JMP, and the procedure to automatically create the plots which appear in this paper has been coded, saved, and uploaded for others to use or adapt to their home institution's ILL data sets at: https://github.com/eschares/ILL-analysis This study is intended to illuminate the ILL request activity at a large, public, land-grant university in the United States, demonstrate the tendencies and trends of the campus community, and discover where users' information needs are not immediately being met through the print collection. This work can inform future collection development activities not only at the local institution but also at other universities worldwide.

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The Evolution of E-books and Interlibrary Loan in Academic Libraries

Cited by 6 publications

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E-lending in digital libraries: a systematic review

E-lending in digital libraries: a systematic review

Toward information equity among academic libraries

Board 78: ILL Communication: Analyzing Five Years of Iowa State University's Print Interlibrary Loan Requests

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