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The No Shelf Required Guide to E-Book Purchasing
I have just finished reading Sue Polanka’s extremely helpful No Shelf Required Guide to E-Book Purchasing. This timely Library Technology Report outlines the various ways to purchase e-books including directly from publishers, through aggregators, and buying through consortia. I was thrilled to see a whole chapter on open access e-books written by E.S. Hellman. If you’re going to be proposing an e-book initiative in your library you’ll want to check out this issue.
Chapters include:
- “Purchasing E-books in Libraries: A Maze of Opportunities and Challenges” by Sue Polanka
- “Consortial Purchasing of E-books,” by Susan Hinken and Emily J. McElroy
- “Academic Library Dilemmas in Purchasing Content for E-readers,” by Eleanor I. Cook
- “Open Access E-books,” by E. S. Hellman
- “The E-textbook Revolution,” by William D. Chesser
- “Digital Textbooks,” by Stephen R. Acker
- “Textbooks, Open Educational Resources, and the Role of the Library,” by Greg Raschke and Shelby Shanks
