Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
This article is a revised and shortened version of a paper given at the Internet Librarian International Conference in October 20051; it draws on a recent ground-breaking tender for e-books for higher education (HE) libraries in the UK
The object was to negotiate with aggregators to make this collection available in electronic form, in order to overcome some of the problems experienced by nurses in HE, who work and study in different locations under considerable time pressure
Following a long and painstaking tender process, ebrary and ProQuest were chosen under Requirement A, and ebrary under Requirement B. These two suppliers were felt to offer most to Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) members in terms of: innovative business models giving value for money; flexibility, offering those with differing requirements appropriate options; and exploiting the electronic medium in terms of granularity and multi-user access
Summary
This article is a revised and shortened version of a paper given at the Internet Librarian International Conference in October 20051; it draws on a recent ground-breaking tender for e-books for higher education (HE) libraries in the UK. This is not the way that users, or librarians, have worked with hard-copy books, and the end-product is quite different. In 2004 the member libraries of the SUPC decided to go out to tender for e-books.
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