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eBooks. First steps at the European Commission Central Library. Multiple Formats – Multiple Devices. At least 8 formats Wide variety of devices Kindle doesn’t support open standard ePub Library owned tablets to load and loan - NO. eBooks in ECLAS. eBooks on SFX. DRM free eBooks.

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  1. eBooks First steps at the European Commission Central Library

  2. Multiple Formats – Multiple Devices • At least 8 formats • Wide variety of devices • Kindle doesn’t support open standard ePub • Library owned tablets to load and loan - NO

  3. eBooks in ECLAS

  4. eBooks on SFX

  5. DRM free eBooks

  6. No restrictions to download print transfer to other mobile devices =Easy to use

  7. DRM secured eBooks • Not at all easy to read on personal devices ! • Very difficult to use (at least the first time) • Both categories are mixed together in the catalogue. • How to explain to users?

  8. Reading a DRM secured eBook in the office • Security restrictions apply:Forbidden to plug personaldevices into any Commission PC • Download to personal mobile devices blocked

  9. Read on screen only

  10. Limited printing & emailing

  11. Book already in use

  12. Read a DRM secured eBook on your own device • Not possible in the office! • At home/on the move?

  13. Reading a DRM secured eBook on your own device • It’s complicated! • Register & login to EBSCO account • Get an ADOBE ID • In the office, activate the option "Authorise computer" in Adobe Digital Editions • Log in with ADOBE ID from home

  14. In my EBSCOhost account: • My loans:

  15. In my EBSCOhost account: • My notes:

  16. eBook Return

  17. Acquisitions interface:EBSCOhost Collection Manager

  18. Customize your EBSCOadmin interface • Resource selection

  19. Selection • Collection manager • Mainly English • Cost can be >3x paper • Number of simultaneous users • Some books only readable on-line –> only available in the office • And …

  20. Publication dates? • Greening International Institutions • Author: Werksmann, Jacob • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publication Year: 2014 • But was published in 1996!

  21. Metadata • Free from OCLC (EBSCO activates) • BUT • Not all data is available immediately (publisher hasn’t supplied to OCLC) • Reminders to EBSCO  • Duplicate data • Whose job is it to sort out the duplicates?

  22. Your experience?

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