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
E-books encompass many forms, from incunabula through to student texts, and present a complex library management scenario
■ the expense of e-versions compared to print when available – compounded in the Republic of Ireland by the punitive Value Added Tax (VAT) of over 20% charged on electronic material, whereas print material incurs none
The second web page listed the purchased material, profiled links to major free e-books and pointed to the potential of search engines to locate free e-books
Summary
E-books encompass many forms, from incunabula through to student texts, and present a complex library management scenario. The initial work included: pulling together for the first time a summary of exactly what e-books we had available; providing some website information about this collection; a literature review to establish best practice; and discussions around the major issues These key themes included: reforming our view of what makes a library collection; raising awareness among library staff on availability and benefits of e-books; implementing novel workflows; addressing resource discovery and uploading MARC records to the library catalogue; and promotion and marketing to our users. It is not possible to commit funds to recurrent subscription packages of e-books, and we have at the time of writing, returned focus to a title-by-title approach to e-book acquisition, using a perpetual purchase model
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