Comments on: Are Books Next? About Time! http://acrlog.org/2008/10/02/are-books-next-about-time/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barbara Fister http://acrlog.org/2008/10/02/are-books-next-about-time/comment-page-1/#comment-103398 Barbara Fister Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:12:02 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1015#comment-103398 Laura, thanks for commenting. This seems like a terrific direction to go in - if only to gain that knowledge of reader behavior in a different environment. Thanks, too, to Eelco for the link to the European project. There's more going on than I realized. Getting the world out is not that easy - whether under old publishing models or new. Laura, thanks for commenting. This seems like a terrific direction to go in – if only to gain that knowledge of reader behavior in a different environment.

Thanks, too, to Eelco for the link to the European project. There’s more going on than I realized. Getting the world out is not that easy – whether under old publishing models or new.

]]> By: Laura Cerruti http://acrlog.org/2008/10/02/are-books-next-about-time/comment-page-1/#comment-103395 Laura Cerruti Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:09:03 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1015#comment-103395 UC Press has five book series available in an open access electronic plus short run and/or POD. The open access editions are displayed on eScholarship through our collaboration with the California Digital Library. See http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/ We are hoping to expand this program to enable greater access and use to the scholarship that we publish. We also have nearly 500 titles available in HTML format at http://www.escholarship.org/editions/ I do anticipate that within 5-10 years, improved digital reading tools will mean cannibalization of print sales by electronic. Nevertheless, these experiments put us into position to understand better how people are accessing and using our electronic editions. This will be essential information when business models shift as a result of these new forms of content distribution. UC Press has five book series available in an open access electronic plus short run and/or POD. The open access editions are displayed on eScholarship through our collaboration with the California Digital Library. See http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/

We are hoping to expand this program to enable greater access and use to the scholarship that we publish.

We also have nearly 500 titles available in HTML format at http://www.escholarship.org/editions/

I do anticipate that within 5-10 years, improved digital reading tools will mean cannibalization of print sales by electronic. Nevertheless, these experiments put us into position to understand better how people are accessing and using our electronic editions. This will be essential information when business models shift as a result of these new forms of content distribution.

]]> By: Eelco Ferwerda http://acrlog.org/2008/10/02/are-books-next-about-time/comment-page-1/#comment-103219 Eelco Ferwerda Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:57:05 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1015#comment-103219 I’d like to draw your attention to another project, quite similar to Bloomsbury Academic, called Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). The project was launched in september and is partly funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus program (see www.oapen.com). OAPEN brings together 7 University Presses from 6 European countries, and aims to develop and implement an Open Access (OA) publication model for peer reviewed academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). One of the results will be an online library for OA books in HSS, which will offer access to quite a large number of titles by the end of the project (the target is at least 1500 by 2011). The OAPEN consortium welcomes other publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to join OAPENs network, make use of OA publication models and to expand the available OA content. It seems the idea of ‘open books’ is spreading quite rapidly, changing our perceptions on book publishing! I’d like to draw your attention to another project, quite similar to Bloomsbury Academic, called Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). The project was launched in september and is partly funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus program (see http://www.oapen.com). OAPEN brings together 7 University Presses from 6 European countries, and aims to develop and implement an Open Access (OA) publication model for peer reviewed academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).
One of the results will be an online library for OA books in HSS, which will offer access to quite a large number of titles by the end of the project (the target is at least 1500 by 2011). The OAPEN consortium welcomes other publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to join OAPENs network, make use of OA publication models and to expand the available OA content.
It seems the idea of ‘open books’ is spreading quite rapidly, changing our perceptions on book publishing!

]]> By: Marilyn R. Pukkila http://acrlog.org/2008/10/02/are-books-next-about-time/comment-page-1/#comment-102746 Marilyn R. Pukkila Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:17:12 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1015#comment-102746 I think the POD option for online books is excellent. So many times when a student finds an e-book in our collection, they want to know if they can borrow the print copy from another library! Besides, in a sense, we've already set up a POD operation: it's called e-reserves. Students love e-reserves because they can call them up on the library's computers and print them off "for free" (it's still their tuition dollars at work!), instead of paying large amounts of money for course packs. I don't think this is how it was intended to be when e-reserves was first developed, but that's what it's become. I think the POD option for online books is excellent. So many times when a student finds an e-book in our collection, they want to know if they can borrow the print copy from another library! Besides, in a sense, we’ve already set up a POD operation: it’s called e-reserves. Students love e-reserves because they can call them up on the library’s computers and print them off “for free” (it’s still their tuition dollars at work!), instead of paying large amounts of money for course packs. I don’t think this is how it was intended to be when e-reserves was first developed, but that’s what it’s become.

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