Like 2017 and 2018, the library is doing T&F EBA eBook program in 2019 again. With EBA, UC students and staff can access 571 T&F eBooks across a wide range of subjects, plus 349 engineering eBooks from ENGnetBASE for 12 months. At the end of that period (April 2020), we will use the usage data collected to select and purchase the most popular titles up to the amount we pre-paid.

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

T&F 2019 EBA title list

ENGnetBASE Frontlist titles

Trial access to The BWB (Bridget Williams Books) Texts Collection is now live until 31 May 2019.

BWB Texts are short books on big subjects and provide fresh analysis of contemporary issues by leading New Zealand thinkers. This collection contains 73 titles and more released regularly.

A selection of titles included in this collection are:

• The Struggle for Sovereignty: New Zealand and Twenty-First Century Statehood by Margaret Wilson
• Still Counting: Wellbeing, Women’s Work and Policy-making by Marilyn Waring
• Doing Our Bit: The Campaign to Double the Refugee Quota by Murdoch Stephens
• Tax and Fairness by Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher

The BWB Texts Collection can be accessed here

We have purchased 2 more Springer subject eBook collections using Trust Funds plus a top up from our book budget.

• 2019 Engineering eBook Collection — Title list (700 titles)

• 2019 Earth and Environmental Science eBook Collection – Title list (424 titles)

All the eBooks are DRM free, unlimited, multiuser access. Individual eBook bibliographical records are available in the Catalogue and Multisearch.

Kia ora koutou. We are currently experiencing problems accessing Taylor & Francis eBooks. Clicking on the link will result in ““We’ve had an error looking up if you have access to this title. Please refresh to try again.”

We have reported this to Taylor & Francis and asked them to fix the problem.

Trial access to AcessEngineering is now live until 19 October.

AccessEngineering is an engineering reference tool that provides access to authoritative and regularly updated engineering reference information. It also comprises dynamic online features, such as instructional, faculty made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalization tools allowing users to organize crucial project information as they work.

Please note that a personal account needs to be registered for downloading materials from the database.

Kia ora koutou. We are currently experiencing problems accessing our World Scientific eBooks. Clicking on a chapter PDF or Full Book (PDF) will result in “Error loading the page. Please try reloading the page by hitting the “Reload the page” link”.

We have reported this to EBSCO/YBP and asked them to fix the problem.

Following on from ProQuest eBook user survey, here is the survey results:

There were 2,372 unique users. 2,238 users took part in the survey and 134 users chose to opt out. It is good response rate for such a short period when our undergraduates and postgraduates were preparing for or taking their exams.

College users study or work in — In the survey, users from College of Arts (771). Business & Law (553), Education, Health and Human Development (331) claim the first 3 places respectively. This order of placing matches the subject contents of our ProQuest eBooks. In the 165, 000 ProQuest eBooks we currently have access to, the majority of those eBooks are in Humanities and social sciences, business, law and education subject areas. The least users came from Engineering School because of we have very few engineering eBooks in ProQuest platform – Springer is the predominant provider for Engineering subject ebooks with about 20,000 engineering titles.

More information about survey results for this question available at:

File:///K:/LIBR-Library/Info-Resources/Non-Continuing-Resources/E-books/Survey-result-College.xlsx

Role at UC — academic staff, general staff, postgraduate, undergraduate or other. The top 2 user groups in this survey are undergraduate (1,615) and postgraduate (496). ProQuest Academic Complete –a multidisciplinary eBook subscription collection with about 150,000 eBooks provides a comprehensive foundation of ebooks for both our undergraduates and postgraduates.

More information about the survey results available at:

File:///K:/LIBR-Library/Info-Resources/Non-Continuing-Resources/E-books/Survey-results-Role.xlsx

Use of ebooks — Study and research are 2 major reasons to use our ProQuest eBooks, this result also matches with our 2 biggest user group – undergraduates and postgraduates.

More information about the survey results for this question available at:

File:///K:/LIBR-Library/Info-Resources/Non-Continuing-Resources/E-books/Survey-results-Use.xlsx

Summary of survey results can be found at:

File:///K:/LIBR-Library/Info-Resources/Non-Continuing-Resources/E-books/Survey-results-Summary.xlsx

Please contact me if you have any questions about the survey results or suggestions to improve the survey in the future.

To better gather users’ demographic information and find out their main purpose for using eBooks, we are going to run a brief survey using the ProQuest LibCentral patron analytics tool. The data can be fed into all usage and expenditure reports, providing a new window into collection use.

3 questions will be included in this survey:

1. College they study or work in
2. User types, academic staff, general staff, postgraduate or undergraduate
3. Use of eBooks for studying, teaching, research et al.

Users are asked just once to complete the survey the first time they access ProQuest Ebook Central online reader. The eBook survey is anonymized. Users can opt out of the survey.

The eBook survey will run for 3 weeks from 28th May to 17th June.

Please email me if you have any questions.

Just a reminder DDA eBooks (about 3,900 titles) will be removed from library catalogue tomorrow (Friday) and reloaded next Monday. Access to those titles will not be available for this weekend.

The original dates of removing and reloading DDA eBook records clashed with the calendar of School of Education, so we will postpone this process to 20^th-23^rd April.

Please let us know before midday today if you have any concerns with the new dates.