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
Report by Shirley Ward, Subject librarian, University of Bolton. This seminar sought to illustrate some of the varying e-book activities currently in place and was well attended by publishers and the further education (FE), higher education (HE) and public library communites
The three papers given on the day covered consortium purchasing of e-books, the views and activities of JISC and an insight into some current research into e-book activity
■ to ease the access to heavy demand titles ■ to allow more access to out-of-print titles ■ to make available more reference material ■ to make available research monographs, which were often not bought because they are very expensive for the amount of use they would get ■ to create a searchable database ■ to facilitate remote access to information
Summary
This seminar sought to illustrate some of the varying e-book activities currently in place and was well attended by publishers and the further education (FE), higher education (HE) and public library communites. David Whitehurst, from the University of Manchester, talked about e-books from the NoWAL (The North West Academic Libraries) perspective. NoWAL decided on a ‘big bang’ approach in order to make a huge impact with e-books in member libraries.
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