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Key findings and recommendations Final Report, November 2009

JISC national e-books observatory final report

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This is the final report of the Observatory project and includes key findings and recommendations for stakeholders. It brings together the data from the deep log analysis, the user surveys, the focus groups and the print and library circulation analysis.

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Key findings and recommendations

Final Report, November 2009

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JISC national e-books observatory project aims

To license a collection of course text e-books that are highly relevant to UK HE taught course students in four discipline areas:

n Business and management studiesn Engineeringn Medicine (not mental health or nursing)n Media studies.

To evaluate the use of the course text e-books though deep log analysis and to assess the impact of the `free at the point of use’ e-books upon publishers, aggregators and libraries.

To transfer knowledge acquired during the project to publishers, aggregators and libraries to help stimulate the emerging course text e-books market.

Definitions

The JISC national e-books observatory project is referred to in this report as the ‘Observatory project.’

The ‘JISC disciplines’ are business and management studies, engineering, medicine and media studies.

Where the term ‘e-book’ is used, it refers to generic e-books available via the library, retail channels or on the web.

Where the term ‘course text e-book’ is used, it refers to electronic versions of course texts that support taught course students (e.g. undergraduates)

Where the term ‘JISC e-book’ is used, it is specific to the 36 titles licensed for the Observatory project.

CIBER was provided with the raw server logs for the other e-books available on the MyiLibrary platform that were actively being used by the 127 universities. This was about 10,000 e-books and provided a control group against which use the JISC e-books could be compared. These are referred to as the ‘non JISC e-books’.

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