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Olga Chiarcos, project manager for the Springer Book Archives, and Jennifer Kemp, eProducts manager for eBooks at Springer, which launched its Springer Book Archives…
What are your thoughts on the peer-review system?There is a saying that conservative people are fond of: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.…
Alexandra Jenner, e-products manager, Woodhead Publishing We launched Woodhead Publishing Online (high-level STM e-books) in 2010 and Chandos Publishing Online (library and information science…
Scott Wasinger, vice president, e-books & audiobooks, EBSCO We find that the most popular model for acquiring e-book titles is an ownership model, with…
Suzanne BeDell, managing director of Science & Technology Books, ElsevierWe’ve seen that once a critical mass of e-books is purchased by an academic library…
Stephen Barr, president, SAGE InternationalUnless there are problems with issues such as rights restrictions, we publish all our books as e-books and in print.…
Colin Caveney, sales director, SemanticoE-books were always viewed as something you get as a whole. There is still a lot of talk about digitising…
Valerie Ryder, director of information strategy, Wolper Information Services Research libraries in academic institutions were early adopters of e-books. Most US academic libraries offered…
Becky Hartnup, head of sales and marketing at CourseSmart InternationalCourseSmart was founded by five major textbook publishers but it is open to any publishers…
For many years students and researchers used computers to access journals but still had to make the journey to their institution library to search…
Constance Malpas, program officer, OCLC ResearchE-books are a significant concern for academic libraries. Recent research found e-books to be the number-one priority of academic…
David Whitehair, senior product manager, OCLCThe first challenge for libraries that is routinely mentioned is the rapidly-growing investment required for e-books. From a staff…
