ebook info for library staff
Last Updated: 1-11-2008
OhioLINK Electronic Book Center http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu
- Browse, browse by subject, search, advanced search, search inside this book
- Highlighted search results in HTML, "find More Books like this...," search term occurrences
- Chapter as PDF -- can save and print
- Springer loads troublesome
LMS e-books page: http://library.kent.edu/e-books
Search e-books on KentLINK with theKeyword Search.
Use the "All Electronic Resources" limit.
Material type limit for ebooks "@" is broken; we're working on it.
COLLECTIONS:
- Annual Reviews
- Name: Annual Reviews
- Status: current; Ohionet discount deal
- Status: 1,995 denied attempts at backfiles in 2007; one-time backfile purchase available at $ 4,500
- KentLINK: all records
- EBC: no
- LMS ebook page: yes
- Funding: INTDS
- Funding: backfile?? from XXXXX
- Cost: $ 5,934
- Regionals: no
- ABC-CLIO
- Name: ABC-CLIO Electronic Reference Books
- Status: current
- KentLINK: all records in KentLINK
- EBC: yes
- LMS ebook page: yes
- Funding: OREFM
- Cost: $ 3,195
- Regionals: yes
- Safari
- Name: Safari
- Status: current
- KentLINK: loads current
- EBC: no
- LMS ebook page: yes
- Funding: OREFS
- Cost: $ 11,756
- Regionals: yes
- ORO
- Name: Oxford Reference Online
- Status: current; 164 titles
- KentLINK: not yet except one collection-level record
- EBC: not loaded
- LMS ebook page: yes
- Funding: LSTA
- Cost:
- Regionals: yes
- ODRF
- Name: Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
- Status: 20 titles; current; part of ORO
- KentLINK: soon
- EBC:
- LMS ebook page: yes
- Funding: LSTA
- Cost:
- Regionals: yes
- OSO
- Name: Oxford Scholarship Online
- Status: current; 1,815 titles; plans to add hundreds per year
- 9 new subjects are now available as part of expansion, for total of 13 subjects
- Will cancel all OSO standing orders
- KentLINK: not yet
- EBC: some loaded
- LMS ebook page: yes
- Funding: OREFM from XXXXX
- Cost: $ 7,478 with expansion
- Regionals: yes
- Springer
- Name: Springer ebooks
- Status: loading problems at EBC
- KentLINK: no records yet
- EBC: loading problems at EBC
- LMS ebook page: EBC link
- Funding: mono funds with purchase history
- Cost: $28,787 redirected from mono funds
- Regionals: yes
- Chadwyck-Healey
- Name: English Poetry Database; etc; 24 databases/collections
- Status: current
- KentLINK: yes; current
- EBC: just starting to move
- LMS ebook page: have CMS resource entries; need to add
"Collection Groups" page
to LMS e-books page
- Funding: OL
- Cost: ?
- Regionals: yes
- ACLS Humanities Ebooks
- Name: Humanities Ebooks a.k.a. ACLS History Ebooks
- Status:
- KentLINK: 1,437 loaded; waiting on more
- EBC:
- LMS ebook page: yes
- Funding: OL-PTP; local funds: ?
- Cost: ?
- Regionals:
- Sage
- Name: Sage reference books
- Status: in negotation at OhioLINK; likely will proceed
- KentLINK: planned
- EBC: planned
- LMS ebook page:
- Funding: $ 4,000 REFRM current spending, and $400 each from Salem, Trumbull, Geauga, Tusc, E Liv, to OREFM
- Cost: OL request: $ 8,936
- Cost: $ 6,000 pledge; cf. $7,000 current 8-campus spending; cf. $14,000 all ebooks solo
- Regionals: yes
- GVRL
- Name: Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Status: in negotation at OhioLINK
- KentLINK:
- EBC:
- LMS ebook page:
- Funding: REFRM current spending (c. $3,300) and balance from XXXXX to OREFM
- Cost: $ 4,924 pledge
- Regionals: yes
- Elsevier
- Name: Elsevier e-books
- Status: in negotation at OhioLINK; likely DOA
- KentLINK:
- EBC:
- LMS ebook page:
- Funding:
- Cost: $ 329,950 for 498 books
- Regionals:
- Blackwell
- Name: Blackwell/Wiley e-books
- Status: in negotation at OhioLINK
- KentLINK:
- EBC:
- LMS ebook page:
- Funding:
- Cost: too early to know
- Regionals:
Tom Klingler
