JISC national e-books observatory project

This page contains a variety of materials that have been written to aid librarians in promoting the MyiLibrary and Wolters Kluwer e-book collections. It also provides materials to help librarians explain to others the JISC national e-book observatory project and why you have participated in it. All of the materials in this pack can be customised, adapted or altered to suit your needs. The materials have all been written to be clear and easy to adapt. They are not prescriptive, rather they aim to act as a starting point which can be added to.

1. General Information:
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• The press release used when the e-books were first made available.
• A case study of e-books in JISC Collections. This provides background on e-book licensing, the collections JISC Collections has licensed, the reason for the project and the project aims.
• Librarian FAQs about the project – very useful to have a quick read through and to disseminate to other staff.
• E-books: Setting up the national observatory project is an article that I wrote for Library and Information Update. It looks at some of the challenges the project has faced so far such as the cost issues that the board faced in finalising the selection of e-books.
• Promoting and Embedding E-books is a summary of the JISC Collections workshop held in September 2007. It looks at what librarians would like JISC Collections to do, publishers to do and aggregators to do to help librarians promote and embed the use of e-books in education. It also looks at how new technologies might be used to promote e-books.

2. Deep Log Analysis Information:
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• Introduction to the Deep Log Analysis (DLA) study provides an overview of the aims and objectives of the study and what DLA is.
• Deep Log Analysis Workplan is how the team at CIBER intend to carry out the study, who it will involve and the data that they will be pulling out of the logs and providing to subscribed institutions.
• What do universities need to know? This is a briefing paper explaining what librarians will need to do for the study, the impacts on the level of data returned and further useful information. This really is useful to disseminate to all library staff.
• A guidance time table created for the DLA contacts with details of information required

3. MyiLibrary Information:
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• MyiLibrary Customer Information pack includes information on the e-book titles, how to log in, MARC records and training.
• MyiLibrary Help Pack provides information on searching, annotating and the functionality of the platform. (This link takes you to slideshare - please then download the presentation)

4. Wolters Kluwer Information
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• Wolters Kluwer E-book Titles provides an overview of the titles, recommendations and links to reviews.
• Ovid Platform Functionality is a collection of slides showing the platform functionality and how to use the platform.
• Ovid Web Gateway User Guide has information on the use of the Books@Ovid platform embedded within it. (This link takes you to slideshare - please then download the presentation)
• Ovid Books Reference Cards is a useful introduction to the platform and how to search etc.

5. Power Point Presentations:

• The JISC national e-book observatory project in 5 mins is a short presentation that can be used to inform staff, colleagues, VCs about the project.
• Why our library is participating in the project is a presentation that again can be used to inform staff of the project. It explains why it is important that the library participates, what this participation means, what data is collected and provided back to the library and then goes on to look at the e-books project in more depth and the results of the national consultation.
• The national e-books observatory project – the challenges is a presentation that I gave at Internet Librarian International 2007 and has some interested information about the project. This is more for reference.

6. News Items for Library Website:
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• News item for the library news page – this is focused at students.
• News item for the library news page – this is focused at teaching staff.
• Little news ideas – this includes little snippets of news that you may like to use on the library website to attract attention to your e-book collections.

7. Text for Library Website:
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• Check the list page is the e-book titles listed by subject area. This can be linked to from a variety of places.
• Text to add to e-books page - if you have an page dedicated to e-books then you may like to use some of the text made available here.
• Information for teaching staff page – if you have a page for teaching staff you could place this information up on the e-books. It also briefly explains access and what they can and cant do with the e-books.

8. Email Templates for Academic Staff:
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• The same basic template is used to inform teaching staff or it could be department heads of the new titles in their subject area, that they are free for two years with unlimited access and what they can do with the e-books.

9. NEOCaR MARC records:
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• NEOCaR information explains what NEOCaR is and provides a background to its creation. It also looks at what it aims to do in the future.
• MARC record fields – these are field in the MARC records that have been deemed as essential, important and desirable. These fields were identified by a group of cataloguing experts to help ensure uniformity and quality.

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