Dear Lis-Linkers,
Thank you to those of you who replied to my e-mail of 17th November.
Many of you have expressed an interest in the replies to my original
e-mail regarding the above and asked me to summaries them for the list.
Most of the replies were from people interested in the prospect of
subscribing or people who have/had a free trial. The main aspect that
has been putting people off of subscribing to Safari is their limited
simultaneous user subscription system. However, the University of Sussex
has been successfully using Safari Tech Books. There have been no
reported problems caused by the choice of the number of simultaneous
users at Sussex.
Over all I get the impression that there is a hell of a lot of interest
in e-books from libraries, but that the way subscriptions are priced is
a major factor in the lack of uptake.
For further information you might like to look at the papers at the
following URLs, provided by some of you:
1) http://scurl.ac.uk/events/ebooks5.html - a speaker from Hillingdon
Public libraries at a conference in Edinburgh in October.
2) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october04/cox/10cox.html - article about
Irish University Libraries' one year evaluative trial 2002-2003.
3)http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/Admin/Committees/libcom/Agenda%20and%20Papers/22Apr05PaperD.doc
- paper including list of UK/Irish Safari users.
Best wishes,
Lynn.
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Lynn Crothall
Subject Librarian (Computing, Communications Technology and Mathematics)
Calcutta House
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel.: 020 7320 1195
London Metropolitan University
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