JISC OA e-Textbooks at Liverpool:
A new model to meet student expectations.
Catherine McManamon, Liaison Librarian, UoL.
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Challenges
Ratio of books to students
Availability of electronic textbooks
The project: JISC
The institution as eTextbook publisher
The project: jisc
The institution as eTextbook publisher
“Will the institution as eTextbook
creator help students by providing a
more affordable HE, & promote a
more sustainable environment for
libraries, students and faculty?”
JISC Collections, (2016)Institution as e-textbook publisher. Available at: https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Institution-as-
E-textbook-Publisher/
The project: Jisc
The institution as eTextbook publisher
JISC Collections, (2016)Institution as e-textbook publisher. Available at: https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Institution-as-E-textbook-Publisher/
Press
Library
Academics
Beginnings
Why work together?
Library perceptions
Subscription prices
Lack of availability of key e-Textbooks
Licencing issues
Publisher Perceptions
High expectations
Open Access Demands
partnership
2014: Modern Languages Open
Timing
2 books
Essentials of Financial Management
Using Primary Sources: A practical guide for students
Essentials of Financial Management
Authored by Management School lecturer
Largest module in the university
+1000 students
Using Primary Sources: A practical
guide for students
20 undergraduate courses
450 students
Learning resource on every course
Home grown
Written by historians at the University of Liverpool
Primary source material from SC and A
Business model & licencing
OA
Print on demand – 3 volumes
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence
Technology
Xerte
Biblioboard
XERTE
Interactivity:
Quizzes
Graphs and tables
Expertise already in the development team.
Biblioboard
Visual
Integrates primary source content and written text
Choose who to share your anthologies with
Biblioboard
Evaluating
Cost benefit analysis
Meeting students’ needs?
Creation process
The future
Without JISC funding?
JISC Collections, (2016)Institution as e-textbook publisher. Available at:
https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Institution-as-E-textbook-Publisher/
Barker, A., (2015) The Liverpool Scene – University Library and University Press as
Partners. SCONUL Focus, 63, pp 18 – 20
Available at: http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/6%20Barker.pdf
Barker, A., (2015) ‘UKSGLive: Breakout session C: Two of Us: Library/Press
Collaboration’ UKSGLive blogspot, Friday 3rd April 2015. Available at:
http://uksglive.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/breakout-session-c-two-of-us.html
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