Discovering, selecting and evaluating foreign language e-books

1. Discovering, selecting and evaluating foreign language e-books An overview Joanne Edwards Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

3. Selecting & Evaluating Availability & Cost Access Content Value & Statistics Resource discovery Usability Technical functionality Recommendations

4. Availability & Cost

5. Access

6. Content

7. Value & Statistics

8. Resource discovery

9. E-books in other languages at Oxford • Ebrary has 15% mixed non-English content, primarily German and French • Past Masters 50% non-English original language (German, Latin, French, Dutch & Danish) • East View E -Books 150 Russian e-books • ClassiquesGarnier • Los Primeros Libros de las Américas16th centuryMexicanimprints • Apabi 15,000 Chinese language e-books • Tibetan Buddhist Resource CenterCore Text Collection • E-Korean Studies includes 7,823 Korean e-books • Al-Manhalheritage Arabic texts, 5,422 e-books

11. E-books in other languages at Oxford • Ebrary has 15% mixed non-English content, primarily German and French • Past Masters 50% non-English original language (German, Latin, French, Dutch & Danish) • East View E -Books 150 Russian e-books • ClassiquesGarnier • Los Primeros Libros de las Américas16th centuryMexicanimprints • Apabi 15,000 Chinese language e-books • Tibetan Buddhist Resource CenterCore Text Collection • E-Korean Studies includes 7,823 Korean e-books • Al-Manhalheritage Arabic texts, 5,422 e-books

12. Technical functionality

13. In summary…