For the 5th year, the library is doing a T&F EBA eBook program in 2021. With this EBA, our students and staff can have access to 1,676 T&F eBooks across a wide range of subjects, close to half of them are engineering eBooks from ENGnetBASE. They are either published recently or with high turnaway this year. These eBooks are available until Oct. 2022, and then we will select those titles with high usage for continuing access up to the amount we pre-paid.

All the eBooks in the T&F EBA program are DRM free, unlimited, multiuser access. Individual eBook bibliographical records are available in both the Catalogue and MultiSearch.

 T&F 2021 EBA title list

Kia ora koutou.

The access issue has been fixed and EBSCO eBooks should be working again.

Ngā mihi

Wendy Wu

We have been alerted we are getting a login screen for our EBSCOHost eBooks when we are clicking on the link.

We have reported this access problem to EBSCO and will keep you posted.

Following my Counterculture post, just to provide an update re the usage on Springer 2020 My Collection. 48,920 eBook chapters are downloaded between Sept. 20-Aug. 21, and the cost per download is NZ$0.98 which is an excellent ROI.

Moreover as per the 2020 contract, we can select titles for continuing access up to the prepaid value of €26,850. As Springer My Collection for 2021 has been renewed recently, we could have access to 3 years (2019-2021) subject eBook collections and will only lose access to the 2018 content by mid October.

Top 135 Springer eBooks with highest usage in 2018 collections are chosen for permanent access.

If you are interested in other titles on the usage report, please let us know as we would be able to purchase them from Springer.

Links:

Springer eBooks selected for continuing Access

2020 Springer My Collection usage report

We have purchased Springer 2021 Engineering eBook Collection and continued Springer My Collection from Trust Funds plus a top up from our book budget.

My Collection is Springer’s new evidence based model for eBooks.  It gives us access to 3 consecutive years Springer subject eBook collections for 12 months. At the end of this program, we will then pick the most relevant titles with continuing access rights up to the amount we prepay.

Springer My Collection 2021 covers 5 subject eBook collections between 2019-2021, including Biomedical and Life Science, Computer Science, Education, Earth & Environmental Science and Intelligent Technologies and Robotics.

All those Springer eBooks (over 8,900 titles) are DRM free, unlimited, multiuser access. Individual eBook are available in both MultiSearch and Library Catalogue.

Links to Springer subject eBook list:

• 2021 Engineering eBook Collection (944 titles)
• My Collection – Biomedical and Life Science (2019-2021) (1,880 titles)
• My Collection – Computer Science (2019-2021) (1,597 titles)
• My Collection – Earth & Environmental Science (2019-2021) (1,618 titles)
• My Collection – Education (2019-2021) (1,187 titles)
• My Collection – Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (2019-2021) (1,698 titles)

We have recently subscribed to ProQuest’s DEI Ebook Collection. It pairs well with our library’s existing subscription to Academic Complete. DEI Ebook collection include more than 13,000 unique titles across topics of gender, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, and political and religious beliefs. In the newest quarterly update an additional 322 titles highlighting Indigenous people of Australia, New Zealand, and Pasifika will be included.

Like with Academic Complete, all titles in the DEI subscription offer unlimited user access and chapter-level downloading.

Individual eBooks in this collection are now available in both library Catalogue and MultiSearch.

We will review this subscription in June 2022 to see if we want to continue with it beyond 2022.

DEI Ebook Subscription-Title list June 2021

DEI Ebook Subscription-Title list coming soon-Australia, New Zealand and Pacifica

ProQuest Academic Complete is a huge multi-disciplinary eBook package with over 200,000 titles we have subscribed since 2016.

In mid-June, over 10,000 eBooks have been removed from Academic Complete, mainly due to content ownership changes, about 8,000 are Elsevier titles. Elsevier claimed they added these titles to the package in Dec. 2020 in error. This removal affects not only UC, but also other ANZ universities.

Here are the removal title lists — Elsevier and Other publishers.

In partnership with Serials Solutions, LAC staff are currently working on removing MARC records of these eBooks from Horizon/MultiSearch. If subject librarians and Customer Services team come across these eBooks with dead link, please send the request to acquisitions@libr.canterbury.ac.nz. We could purchase the eBook(s) asap depends on cohort or individual use.

In the meantime, about 80 withdrawn titles have been identified we would like to purchase for continued access, based on 50+ uses in the last 12 months. Most of these titles we will purchase from Elsevier or other direct publisher are DRM-free with unlimited user access.

Kanopy PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) program is turned off during summer break, but we could continue having access to those Kanopy videos which we currently have had licences.

The main reason for this is recreational use likely to grow over this time, which could cost library a lot of money potentially.

User requests for Kanopy videos in PDA program will be sent to Library Access & Collections for mediation during this period.

We will turn Kanopy PDA program back on when the new semester begins.

Wiley will be making changes to its digital rights management (DRM) policies and title availability for library eTextbooks available via ProQuest.

Below is a summary of the changes:

1. To remove printing, copying, and downloading (including both chapter-level via pdf, and full title via Adobe Digital Editions)
2. These changes will apply only to new purchases and will not impact libraries’ previous purchases.
3. Wiley will not be making newly published textbooks available to libraries for perpetual purchase via Ebook Central. In other words, certain embargo period will be placed for new eTextbook purchase.

No specific start date for those changes is announced yet.

Below is a summary of the changes to Cengage eTextbook on ProQuest Ebook Central:

1. Cengage will be adjusting the digital rights management (DRM) on new purchases available via ProQuest, to remove printing, copying, and PDF chapter-level downloading
2. These changes will apply only to new purchases and will not impact libraries’ previous purchases
3. Full title downloading to Adobe Digital Editions will remain available
4. Adding a 1U license for libraries seeking an alternative to the 3U license or an entry-level price point

 These changes are starting from next Monday (7^th September).