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• Part of the ECC (negotiated centrally, paid for centrally, systemwide access)
  • Examples, purchased centrally:
    • The former “NetLibrary” package, now hosted in EBSCO ebooks.
    • The more recent systemwide DDA-triggered purchases, hosted on ebrary, myiLibrary, and EBL
  • Examples, subscribed centrally:
    • Safari Tech Books
    • Ebrary Academic Complete
• Opt-ins offered via SDLC (negotiated centrally, but paid for by each campus, local access only)
  • Examples, opt-ins:
    • ACLS Humanities Ebooks
    • Oxford Scholarship Online
• Locally purchased or subscribed (by each campus, outside SDLC, local access only)

Policy Statement

Collections purchased/subscribed centrally:

• If unique to the CSU (i.e. the Netlibrary and ebrary/EBL/myiLiibrary packages mentioned above), should be managed by creation of their electronic collections at the NZ level for sharing by all campuses.
• If standard packages, not unique to the CSU:
  • ebrary Academic Complete must be managed centrally by sharing its CZ collection in the NZ. This is due to the package's large size and frequent changes in content.
  • DECISION PENDING RE SMALLER PACKAGES LIKE SAFARI depending on analysis of CZ record currency and quality, options include:
    • • Active CZ collection in the NZ OR
      • Load records as an electronic collection at the NZ level for sharing (campuses would need to volunteer to maintain)

Collections negotiated centrally but opt-in at the campus level:

• In the absence of some other provision in the NZ (such as a determination to provide a CSU-maintained NZ collection), collections should be managed by sharing their CZ collections in the NZ.

Collections outside SDLC, local-only:

• If the collection is already active in the NZ (for example, because other CSU's have the same package), share the NZ collection.
• If the collection is not already active in the NZ, campus may choose among available options:
  
  • Activate the CZ collection
  • Load records from OCLC Connexion Collection Manager into your IZ and create an local electronic collection
  • Load records directly from the vendor into your IZ and create an local electronic collection

If CZ ecollection records are found to be unsatisfactory or no CZ ecollection exists, campuses should avoid the practice of loading ecollection record sets into the CZ. The better option is for the CSU to pressure both ExLibris and the vendors for better CZ data. 

Activation in Primo Central Index

While campuses may also wish to activate their purchased or subscribed collections in Primo Central Index in order to increase discoverability, activation solely in PCI is not adequate. PCI does NOT provide catalog records (nor is it possible to view PC metadata without pulling it up in a Primo search).

• If you want to offer a catalog scope that includes all your ebooks in one search, you must have catalog records.
• Catalog records are also important for doing collection analysis.
• If linking from PCI is OpenURL, then you must have something active in Alma.

If activating a collection in PCI for which you have an Alma ecollection, watch for possible issues that may appear in Primo, such as duplication of search results or unusual skewing of results ranking (because the entire full text is open to searching). 

Best practice recommendations

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