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Commercial digest (2 messages) Bob Persing 04 Nov 2011 18:04 UTC

Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing
informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors,
agents, etc.)

This week's digest contains 2 messages:
1) Cambridge University Press Launches University Publishing Online
2) Some resuilts from Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition

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Message #1:

Subject: Cambridge University Press Launches University Publishing Online
From: Erin Igoe <EIgoe@cambridge.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:41:49 -0400

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LAUNCHES UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING ONLINE

Release date: 31/10/2011
Country of issue: United Kingdom | USA

Cambridge University Press’s new integrated eBook and digital content
offering, University Publishing Online, launched today (31 October).

University Publishing Online, at www.universitypublishingonline.org,
provides aggregated content from the Mathematical Association of America
(based in Washington D.C.), Liverpool University Press, Foundation Books
(based in India), and Cambridge University Press. Access to content from
Edinburgh University Press and Nottingham University Press will be
available from early 2012.

University Publishing Online provides libraries with eBooks and related
database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide.

Building on the established, highly successful Cambridge Books Online
platform, users have immediate access to over 13,000 front and backlist
titles, accessible through quick, powerful search and browse functionality.
University Publishing Online allows users to search within the available
content of all four presses, maximising results and offering access to
research materials of the highest standard.

Users are able to search across all University Publishing Online content or
limit their search to selected publishers. The search facility also
encompasses Cambridge Journals Online (Cambridge’s extensive journals
platform), providing users with access to hundreds of the latest academic,
research-rich publications. Institutions are able to make collection or
title-by-title purchases from a single publisher or mix-and-match across
all of the publishers on the platform.

UPO contains comprehensive library support tools, and it is compliant with
all major industry standards and initiatives. Functionality on the site
includes hyper-linked references and personalization features, as well as
enhanced discoverability tools. Two functionality upgrades will take place
every year, ensuring the site is consistently developing according to its
users’ needs.

Two purchasing plans for University Publishing Online are available, each
involving unlimited-user concurrent access and minimal digital rights
management (DRM). Customers are able to buy content once and then own
continuing access, or subscribe annually with a subscribe-to-buy facility.
Annual subscription will be available from January 2012.

Dr Andrew Brown, Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University
Press, said: “I believe that the launch of University Publishing Online is
great news for our customers, as it will bring even more flexibility of
access to quality academic content from a range of different publishers.
Our mission at Cambridge University Press has always been to advance
learning, knowledge and research worldwide, and, with the ease of access
and the quality of its content, UPO will ensure that this mission
continues.”

“We would like to take this opportunity to invite other prestigious
publishers to join us, and we look forward to adding even more quality
academic content in the future.”

To view UPO, go to www.universitypublishingonline.org

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

Media contacts
For further information, please contact Hannah Gregory on +44(0)1223 325544
or email press@cambridge.org. If you are located in North or South America,
please contact Erin Igoe on +1 212-337-5955, or email eigoe@cambridge.org.

About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of
Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, its purpose is to further the
University's objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning, and
research.

Its extensive peer-reviewed publishing lists comprise 36,000 titles
covering academic research, professional development, over 280 research
journals, school-level education, English language teaching and bible
publishing.

Playing a leading role in today’s international market place, Cambridge
University Press has 53 offices around the globe, and it distributes its
products to nearly every country in the world.

For further information, please go to: www.cambridge.org

About Cambridge Books Online
Cambridge Books Online offers access to thousands of front and backlist PDF
titles from Cambridge University Press and other academic publishers in a
fully searchable environment. The site includes dynamic content and
features, with frequent addition of new titles. It also features
comprehensive library support tools, including downloadable
machine-readable cataloguing (MARC) records, usage reports plus access and
authentication methods.

Functionality on the site includes hyperlinked references and
personalisation features, as well as enhanced discoverability tools. Two
functionality upgrades take place every year, ensuring the site is
consistently developing according to its users’ needs.

Libraries can acquire a wide range of subject-based collections or can
choose to make an individually customised selection of titles from the
12,000 currently on offer for a one-off access fee.

Institutions in over 30 countries have purchased eBooks from Cambridge
Books Online since its launch in 2010, and new customers are being added
each week.

For further information about Cambridge Books Online, please go to
http://ebooks.cambridge.org

Erin Igoe
Associate Director, Library Sales and Marketing
Cambridge University Press
32 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
212-337-5955
eigoe@cambridge.org

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Message #2:

Subject: Some resuilts from Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition
From: James Moses <primarydat@AOL.COM>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 14:52:01 -0400

Primary Research Group has published Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition,
ISBN 157440-184-X. The report looks closely at library eBook purchasing and
deployment policies and includes data on overall spending, spending on
particular products, the break down of spending between aggregators and
individual publishers among thousands of other data points. The study
include exhaustive information on library eBook purchasing plans in
particular subject areas and for particular types of technologies.

Library Use of eBooks 2012 Edition also gives detailed data on current and
future spending plans on tablet computers, eBook readers, edirectories,
etextbooks, eAudio books and many other forms of eBooks. In addition the
report examines information eBook issues relating to information literacy,
cataloging, interlibrary loan, course reserves, consortium relations and use
and other pressing issues in eBook development and deployment. The study is
based on survey data from more than 90 public, higher education and special
libraries.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

• Libraries in the sample will spend a mean of $118,453 on e-books in 201l
and anticipate spending a mean of $128,712 in 2012.

• Libraries sampled have a mean of 3.62 existing e-book licensing contracts
with individual publishers and e-book aggregators.

• College libraries will renew a mean of 89.4% of their e-book contracts,
while corporate and legal libraries will renew a mean of 67.78%.

• Among public libraries sampled, a mean of just 0.5% of e-book orders are
made direct from the publisher. In comparison, 35% of orders made by
corporate and legal libraries and 32.22% of those from government libraries
are made this way.

• 46.48% of e-book purchases by college libraries and nearly a quarter of
those made by government libraries were made through library consortia.

• Only 6.93% of libraries in the sample have ever developed a video to
explain any facet of e-book use.

• Libraries in the sample have MARC records for a mean 66.01% of e-books in
their collections.

• 29.11% of libraries have taken some measures to integrate e-books searches
into journal article searches.

• 27.63% of libraries in the sample say that patrons use e-books about
psychology occasionally and 26.32% say that they use them significantly.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.