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This 165-page international
study looks closely at how academic libraries are using
eBooks. It helps librarians to answer questions such as:
how fast is eBook spending growing? Which eBook purchasing
models are growing fastest? Subscription models that
allow unlimited access” pay per view models? Outright
ownership? Other models? What percentage of eBook
purchases are through consortia? What percentage direct from
publishers? What percentage through
aggregators?
The report also gives
detailed data on spending on various major players such as
OverDrive, ebrary, EBSCO, Baker & Taylor, EBL and many
others. It's particularly rich on data about eBook purchases
from academic presses. The study also looks at the growth of
tablet computing in academic libraries, at the use of eBooks
in course reserve, at purchases of eDirectories and
eTextbooks, and other issues in academic library eBook
purchasing and deployment.
Just a few of the
study’s many findings are that:
- eBooks accounted for a
mean of 18.44% of titles ordered from academic presses.
- The annual change in
spending on eBooks through a model that grants unlimited
patron use for a specified subscription period was
27.42%.
- Libraries of colleges
that charge more than $20,000 in tuition annually made 20.36%
of their eBook orders directly from publishers.
- For libraries in
colleges with more than 7,000 students, the mean increase in
patron use of eBooks was 62.2% and the median increase of
25%.
- 33.33% of libraries
surveyed said that eBooks were not used for course reserve at
all.
