Enhanced User Experience with EBSCOhost: Seamless Access to eBooks and Audiobooks

2. User Experience – Highlights • Fully integrated into EBSCOhost • Strength of the EBSCOhost platform • Familiarity for existing EBSCOhost users • Permalink (page, chapter, title level) • TOC in results and detail record • Streamlined audiobook experience • eBook browse • Extensive citation support • Flexible download and print options • Full 508 accessibility • Strength of EBSCOadmin • COUNTER compliant usage statistics • ECM collection management • Later in 2012: ePub and more

3. User Experience – Download • Chapter or Page Range • Watermarked PDF – compatible with anything that can read an open PDF, including Kindle • Entire eBook • Protected PDF – compatible with Adobe supported devices and applications • Optional • Adobe (ACS) license for library • Adobe Digital Editions for user

4. Today – Compatible Devices & Applications • Sony, Nook, Kobo, HP, Samsung, Toshiba • iPhone, iPad (via Bluefire Reader app) • Droid (via txtr app) • And more – for a complete list: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices Future – Expanded Options • Continued support for Adobe solution • Apps for iOS and Android devices • Optimized web site for eBook access from mobile devices

5. User Experience – Download

6. User Experience – Download

7. Licensing – Business Models

8. Business Models

9. Business Models – Purchase • 1U, 3U, UU • Purchase for true ownership with perpetual access • 5% back promotion through March • One-time title price No fees! No markup! No ACS download fees No maintenance fees No platform fees No hosting fees No MARC fees No annual fees No setup fees No markup None

10. Business Models – Purchase – EBSCO

11. Business Models – Subscription • Academic Collection to start, more to follow • Over 66,000 titles, unlimited user, downloadable, annual subscription, continuously growing • Strict collection development policy • More titles from top publishers, fewer deep backlist titles

12. Business Models – PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) • Standard pricing, no additional charges associated with PDA • Purchase / lease triggers include any of the following: • 10 minutes in full text • 10 page views in full text • Downloading • Printing, emailing, or copying any portion of full text • PDA management is through ECM

13. Business Models – Consortia • Market is moving away from old shared collection concept • New approach is for each member to purchase its own titles and all participants receive a discount • More targeted collections, more flexibilityand control for participants

14. Business Models – Short-term Lease • 1, 7, 14, or 28 day lease periods • Priced at a fraction of the 1U purchase price • One user access (but can license multiples, e.g. four 7-day leases) • Money spent on lease cannot be counted toward eventual purchase • A good option for providing access to content with uncertain ongoing demand • Easily set up and managed through a PDA

15. Content – eBooks • Over 300,000 titles from more than 700 publishers available and growing • Leveraging EBSCO’s strength in acquiring the best content • Adding content more aggressively than ever, proactively soliciting new content in key areas • Thousands of non-English titles, including: Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Dutch

16. Content – Audiobooks Over 15,000 titles Over 50 publishers, including: Simon & Schuster AudioGO (BBC) Blackstone Tantor Scholastic Audio Complete Apple device compatibility

17. Acquisition Options Search title-by-title Predefined Collections Custom Collections Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) Multiple options, title-by-title flexibility

18. Acquisition – EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM) • Online resource providing libraries with extensive collection development and management capabilities • Version 1 • Streamlined title discovery, selection and ordering (with fund codes) • 1U, 3U, UU purchase; PDA (PDO) • Title level detail – metadata and preview • View owned titles • Selector and Approver roles • Selector can create lists of books and submit for approval • Approver can approve lists and submit orders

22. Acquisition – Collection Development Team • Dedicated team of librarians • Develop predefined and custom collections to save you time and money • Draw on library expertise and collection knowledge to meet your collection development needs including • Matching or complementing print collection • Updating a subject collection with new materials • Meeting accreditation standards • Creating an outstanding opening day collection

23. Acquisition – Predefined Collections – Subject Sets www.ebscohost.com/ebooks

24. Acquisition – Predefined Collections – Subject Sets • Prepackaged set of titles in high demand subject areas • Frontlist (2009-2011) only titles from our leading publishers • Designed with different types of libraries in mind • No duplication among current or past offerings • Collection development is already done • Over 100 Subject Sets available to choose from

25. Acquisition – Predefined Collections – Subject Sets www.ebscohost.com/ebooks

26. Acquisition – Predefined Collections – Market Packs • Corporate Learning Competency Collection • Business Book Summaries Companion Collection • Business Source Corporate Companion Collection • CINAHL Core • Healthcare Management • Doody’s Core • General Reference • Audiobook Core • And more

27. Acquisition – Custom Collections • Tailored specifically to fit any library’s budget and collection development needs (e.g. subject, publication years, publishers, language) • Dedicated Collection Development team works to help define and refine your eContent needs • Alternative or complement to Subject Sets, Market Packs, and title-by-title searching

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