Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors, agents, etc.) This week's digest contains 2 messages: 1) Cambridge University Press Launches University Publishing Online 2) Some resuilts from Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition ----------------------------------------- Message #1: Subject: Cambridge University Press Launches University Publishing Online From: Erin Igoe <EIgoe@cambridge.org> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:41:49 -0400 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LAUNCHES UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING ONLINE Release date: 31/10/2011 Country of issue: United Kingdom | USA Cambridge University Press’s new integrated eBook and digital content offering, University Publishing Online, launched today (31 October). University Publishing Online, at www.universitypublishingonline.org, provides aggregated content from the Mathematical Association of America (based in Washington D.C.), Liverpool University Press, Foundation Books (based in India), and Cambridge University Press. Access to content from Edinburgh University Press and Nottingham University Press will be available from early 2012. University Publishing Online provides libraries with eBooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide. Building on the established, highly successful Cambridge Books Online platform, users have immediate access to over 13,000 front and backlist titles, accessible through quick, powerful search and browse functionality. University Publishing Online allows users to search within the available content of all four presses, maximising results and offering access to research materials of the highest standard. Users are able to search across all University Publishing Online content or limit their search to selected publishers. The search facility also encompasses Cambridge Journals Online (Cambridge’s extensive journals platform), providing users with access to hundreds of the latest academic, research-rich publications. Institutions are able to make collection or title-by-title purchases from a single publisher or mix-and-match across all of the publishers on the platform. UPO contains comprehensive library support tools, and it is compliant with all major industry standards and initiatives. Functionality on the site includes hyper-linked references and personalization features, as well as enhanced discoverability tools. Two functionality upgrades will take place every year, ensuring the site is consistently developing according to its users’ needs. Two purchasing plans for University Publishing Online are available, each involving unlimited-user concurrent access and minimal digital rights management (DRM). Customers are able to buy content once and then own continuing access, or subscribe annually with a subscribe-to-buy facility. Annual subscription will be available from January 2012. Dr Andrew Brown, Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press, said: “I believe that the launch of University Publishing Online is great news for our customers, as it will bring even more flexibility of access to quality academic content from a range of different publishers. Our mission at Cambridge University Press has always been to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide, and, with the ease of access and the quality of its content, UPO will ensure that this mission continues.” “We would like to take this opportunity to invite other prestigious publishers to join us, and we look forward to adding even more quality academic content in the future.” To view UPO, go to www.universitypublishingonline.org ENDS Notes to Editors: Media contacts For further information, please contact Hannah Gregory on +44(0)1223 325544 or email press@cambridge.org. If you are located in North or South America, please contact Erin Igoe on +1 212-337-5955, or email eigoe@cambridge.org. About Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, its purpose is to further the University's objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning, and research. Its extensive peer-reviewed publishing lists comprise 36,000 titles covering academic research, professional development, over 280 research journals, school-level education, English language teaching and bible publishing. Playing a leading role in today’s international market place, Cambridge University Press has 53 offices around the globe, and it distributes its products to nearly every country in the world. For further information, please go to: www.cambridge.org About Cambridge Books Online Cambridge Books Online offers access to thousands of front and backlist PDF titles from Cambridge University Press and other academic publishers in a fully searchable environment. The site includes dynamic content and features, with frequent addition of new titles. It also features comprehensive library support tools, including downloadable machine-readable cataloguing (MARC) records, usage reports plus access and authentication methods. Functionality on the site includes hyperlinked references and personalisation features, as well as enhanced discoverability tools. Two functionality upgrades take place every year, ensuring the site is consistently developing according to its users’ needs. Libraries can acquire a wide range of subject-based collections or can choose to make an individually customised selection of titles from the 12,000 currently on offer for a one-off access fee. Institutions in over 30 countries have purchased eBooks from Cambridge Books Online since its launch in 2010, and new customers are being added each week. For further information about Cambridge Books Online, please go to http://ebooks.cambridge.org Erin Igoe Associate Director, Library Sales and Marketing Cambridge University Press 32 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013 212-337-5955 eigoe@cambridge.org --------------------------------------------------------- Message #2: Subject: Some resuilts from Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition From: James Moses <primarydat@AOL.COM> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 14:52:01 -0400 Primary Research Group has published Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition, ISBN 157440-184-X. The report looks closely at library eBook purchasing and deployment policies and includes data on overall spending, spending on particular products, the break down of spending between aggregators and individual publishers among thousands of other data points. The study include exhaustive information on library eBook purchasing plans in particular subject areas and for particular types of technologies. Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition also gives detailed data on current and future spending plans on tablet computers, eBook readers, edirectories, etextbooks, eAudio books and many other forms of eBooks. In addition the report examines information eBook issues relating to information literacy, cataloging, interlibrary loan, course reserves, consortium relations and use and other pressing issues in eBook development and deployment. The study is based on survey data from more than 90 public, higher education and special libraries. Just a few of the report’s many findings are that: • Libraries in the sample will spend a mean of $118,453 on e-books in 201l and anticipate spending a mean of $128,712 in 2012. • Libraries sampled have a mean of 3.62 existing e-book licensing contracts with individual publishers and e-book aggregators. • College libraries will renew a mean of 89.4% of their e-book contracts, while corporate and legal libraries will renew a mean of 67.78%. • Among public libraries sampled, a mean of just 0.5% of e-book orders are made direct from the publisher. In comparison, 35% of orders made by corporate and legal libraries and 32.22% of those from government libraries are made this way. • 46.48% of e-book purchases by college libraries and nearly a quarter of those made by government libraries were made through library consortia. • Only 6.93% of libraries in the sample have ever developed a video to explain any facet of e-book use. • Libraries in the sample have MARC records for a mean 66.01% of e-books in their collections. • 29.11% of libraries have taken some measures to integrate e-books searches into journal article searches. • 27.63% of libraries in the sample say that patrons use e-books about psychology occasionally and 26.32% say that they use them significantly. For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
