[Mla-cds] Question about options when a current textbook is not available online

[Locke J Morrisey]

The only thing I wouldn't recommend is implementing a technology that is
driven by a specific resource. For example, if you don't serve other
CD-ROMSs with a Citrix server (something we haven't done for a number of
years where I am) then why start? If this is still standard practice
where you are then I do think it's an option you could look at (although
not an ideal one). 

I've shied away from e-textbooks as I don't see a lot of our nursing
students using them. This might be different in other healthcare
disciplines though. 

Locke J Morrisey, ACRL Councilor 2007-2010, Vice-Pres/Pres Elect NCNMLG
Head of Collections, Reference & Research Services
Library Liaison for School of Nursing, Department of Biology, Department
of Chemistry.
University of San Francisco
Gleeson Library/Geschke Center
2130 Fulton St
San Francisco, CA 94117-1049
415-422-5399

----- Original Message -----
From: Ramune Kubilius <r-kubilius at northwestern.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:20 am
Subject: [Mla-cds] Question about options when a current textbook is not
available online
To: mla-cds at colldev.mlanet.org

> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for any insights, suggestions, or success stories 
> folks 
> might have.
> 
> There are some publishers that just do not seem to be rolling out 
> electronic versions of their textbooks. Books- yes, book series- 
> yes, 
> but textbooks seem to hit a business model snag with some 
> publishers. 
> One publisher's rep told me they haven't figured out the digital 
> rights management (DRM) issues yet for their textbooks....With so 
> many business models out there, and so many third party e-book 
> vendors--that excuse is not very acceptable anymore, in my 
> mind...Maybe they're afraid of losing print textbook revenue? For 
> now, we're still buying library copies of many popular textbooks, 
> even when they're available online.
> 
> Case in point. One very very frequency requested title by our 
> faculty 
> (for at least 3 years on my "waiting to see if it becomes available 
> online" list) is:
> Maternal-fetal medicine : principles and practice / editors, Robert 
> K. Creasy, Robert Resnik
> The imprint is Saunders, the publisher is Elsevier.
> 
> The textbook is available in print and CD-ROM only, as far as I can 
> tell, but not available through Elsevier's e-book packages (via the 
> ScienceDirect platform), or any third party vendor I could think of 
> (R2, STAT!Ref, Ovid, ebrary, netLibrary, etc.). There is a spot on 
> the publisher's Web site to send a blind "permissions to re-use 
> book 
> material not on ScienceDirect", so I suppose I can start there. I 
> thought I'd also pick my collection development colleagues' brains 
> on 
> their experience with this or other publishers...
> 
> Has anyone successfully sought permission to somehow mount book 
> CD-ROMs onto a (Citrix?) server? Has anyone worked out any other 
> type 
> of permission with the publisher to electronically offer a textbook 
> to its institutional users when the textbook is not available 
> online 
> through the usual channels - publisher or third party vendor e-book 
> gateways? If so, how did that work out? What e-book platform was 
> used- the publishers' or a third party that doesn't normally offer 
> that publisher's e-books? Purchase or subscription licensing model?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> Ramune Kubilius, MALS
> Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian
> Galter Health Sciences Library
> Northwestern University 
> 
> 
> 
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