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-Chapters
Bring course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and
exam preparation tools that support the printed textbook.
Fully Digital Solutions - Adapting textbooks
Assignments and active learning opportunities that include
randomized, automatically graded questions, text integration detailed
explanations to reinforce course concepts.
Problem Sets
Tutorials
News
Analyses
Experiments
Library Reference – Monique.Schutterop@cengage.com
Libraries, Academic and Research institutions,
Public Libraries, National Libraries, Museums
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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 content
Con – 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 sources
for 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, userfocused 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 ondemand 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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With one resource, access thousands of full-text eReference titles
from Gale
and more than 80 leading publishing partners on virtually any
ABC-CLIO
subject.• IGI Global (formerly Idea
ASCD (Association of Supervision and
Curriculum Development)
CQ Press
Cambridge University Press
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Columbia University Press
Dorling Kindersley
Elsevier Inc.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Facts On File
Gale
Greenhaven Press
Greenwood Publishing Group
Grey House Publishing
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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
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38 User Interface Languages
Afrikaans
Bengali
Chinese, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian, Bahasa
Indonesian, Malay
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese
Welsh
In December 2011 adding
(Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and
Urdu) for a total of 38 user
interface languages.
13 Machine Translations
19 ReadSpeaker
Text-to-speech Language
• English ⇔ Arabic • English ⇔
• English ⇔
Chinese
Spanish
• English ⇔ Greek
• English ⇔ Dutch • English ⇔ Polish
• Arabic
• Japanese
• Chinese,
• Korean
Cantonese
• Polish
• English ⇔ French
• Chinese, Mandarin • Portuguese,
• English ⇔ German
• Czech
Brazilian
• English ⇔ Italian
• Dutch
• Romanian
• English ⇔
• English
• Russian
Japanese
• French
• Spanish,
• English ⇔ Korean
• German
• English ⇔
• Greek
• Swedish
• Italian
• Welsh
Portuguese
English ⇔
Russian
(Americas)
Lets go online!
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/webdemo