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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Library Services is currently running a pilot project involving users in the acquisition of e-book content.

For a trial period, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº students and staff will be able to read and download 1000s of extra e-books across a wide range of subjects. ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Library Services will buy those used most often and add them to the existing collection.

June Hedges, Academic Support Manager said, "¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Library Services already have access to over 14,000 e-book titles, but in our efforts to make sure we have all the books that you need, when you need them, we have been trialling new ways to buy e-books which effectively give the purchasing power to you, our library users.

Trialling access

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Library Services have been trialling two different methods of acquisition, Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) and Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA). As a result ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº has access to all the books available via a particular publisher or e-book service and users get to decide which books are purchased.

June explains, "With PDA the library pays a lump sum up front and it gets spent as and when users download the books until the money runs out. With EBA you have access to everything for a set amount of time and at the end of that period the library uses the data collected to select and buy the most popular titles."

Currently ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Library Services has access to everything in the Ìý under the EBA model. While ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº IOE library is currently making approximately 850 additional ebooks in the area of education and social sciences available with Taylor and Francis under the same model. ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Library Services will soon have access to ebooks via Jstor too.

For more information visit ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Library Services.

June Hedges, Academic Support Manager, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Library Services