Lund Online 2012.

E-Books & E-Reference

Malin Asplund & Monique Schutterop

Higher Education & Library Reference

Higher Education - Malin.Asplund@cengage.com

Lectures, Professors, Instructors

Print - Textbooks

Print & Digital Combined - E-Textbooks, E-ChaptersBring course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and

exam preparation tools that support the printed textbook.

Fully Digital Solutions - Adapting textbooksAssignments and active learning opportunities that include randomized, automatically graded questions, text integration detailed explanations to reinforce course concepts.

Tutorials

Problem Sets

News Analyses

Experiments

Library Reference – Monique.Schutterop@cengage.com

Libraries, Academic and Research institutions, Public Libraries, National Libraries, Museums

- Reference works- Digital Newspaper Archives- Digital Historical Archives- Literature Databases- Journal Databases

The Pattern Driven Acquisition - PDA questions

What is your experience of PDA/textbooks?Do not yet offer PDA on our e-books, we are considering this option.We have worked on a small scale via a third party platform on PDA for the eBooks for FE

project (also JISC.) Still work in process.

What are the pros and cons with PDA?Library & user: Pro -getting access to a wide range of content without significant capital outlay & only

pay for what is used.Con – finding that many titles are randomly accessed which will be costly for the Library.

Publisher: Pro - having an opportunity to let users influence/drive purchasing of our contentCon – creating a platform is costly and will take manual monitoring and constant

adjustments

What do you think about the market for PDA/textbooks?So far our experience has been that the usage of textbooks is influenced by

lecturer recommendation more than any other factor.

What do you think about the future of e-books in general?We have been publishing eBooks through both digitisation and from our

reference and textbook publishing groups for a number of years now and are committed to providing valuable and unique content to our students and researchers in a way that fits the needs and outcomes of libraries, students, and researchers.

Based on extensive customer feedback, market research and our usability experts, the Gale Virtual Reference Library

Remember – GVRL?

A collection of encyclopedias and specialised reference sourcesfor multidisciplinary research Reference works from over 50 publishers

Allowing: Research/Reference books online No readers, no check-outs, no barriers Unlimited usage, downloads and prints Full flexibility with your collection – make your own collection Customer owns the content forever Different publishers, cross-searchable Easy access for all sorts of users

Do you remember:

WHAT’S NEW:

• A vibrant and more engaging user interface

• Improved, user-focused navigation and organization

• Article-level eReader download capabilities

• User interface language options expand to more than 35 languages*

• Multi-page viewing capability, recreates the book experience

* See slide 11

• Brings users closer to the eReference titles that best fits their search parameters by narrowing results

• Book covers in the search results

• New toolbox features: sending articles to your eReader, view html or PDF, and on-demand content translation expands to 13 languages*

• Enhanced relevance search & filtering

* See slide 11

• ‘Related Subjects’ allows researchers to dig deeper into content

• Navigate through the entire book using the Table of Contents, or showing results at the article level

• Improvements on results relevancy

As you can see, the multi-page viewer allows the option to choose either a one or two page view – recreating the book experience within the context it was intended it to be viewed.

• Easily browse and search across series pages, such as Business Plans Handbook and Contemporary Authors

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ABC-CLIOASCD (Association of Supervision and

Curriculum Development)CQ PressCambridge University PressCharles Scribner’s SonsColumbia University PressDorling KindersleyElsevier Inc.Encyclopedia Britannica Facts On FileGaleGreenhaven PressGreenwood Publishing GroupGrey House Publishing

• IGI Global (formerly Idea Group, Inc.)

• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.• Kogan Page• Linworth Publishing, Inc.• Lucent Books• Macmillan Reference USA• Omnigraphics• Oxford University Press• Peterson’s• Rough Guides• SAGE Publications• Salem Press• Schirmer• Springer• St. James Press• U X L∙ ∙• Dozens of others and growing

With one resource, access thousands of full-text eReference titles from Gale

and more than 80 leading publishing partners on virtually any subject.

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AfrikaansBengaliChinese, SimplifiedChinese, TraditionalCroatianCzechDanishDutchEnglishFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIndonesian, Bahasa Indonesian, MalayItalianJapaneseKorean

PolishPortugueseRomanianRussianSlovakSlovenianSpanishSwedishTagalog TamilThaiTurkishVietnameseWelsh In December 2011 adding (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Urdu) for a total of 38 user interface languages.

38 User Interface Languages

• English ⇔ Arabic

• English ⇔ Chinese

• English ⇔ Dutch

• English ⇔ French

• English ⇔ German

• English ⇔ Italian

• English ⇔

Japanese

• English ⇔ Korean

• English ⇔

Portuguese

English ⇔ Russian

• English ⇔ Spanish

• English ⇔ Greek

• English ⇔ Polish

13 Machine Translations

• Arabic

• Chinese,

Cantonese

• Chinese, Mandarin

• Czech

• Dutch

• English

• French

• German

• Greek

• Italian

• Japanese

• Korean

• Polish

• Portuguese,

Brazilian

• Romanian

• Russian

• Spanish,

(Americas)

• Swedish

• Welsh

19 ReadSpeaker Text-to-speech Languages

Lets go online!http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/webdemo