e-Book Recommendations
Final recommendations for e-book collections and purchased packages is to link to the corresponding collections in the Community Zone (CZ).
We also recommend linking individual e-book titles to the CZ when possible (i.e., a title may be available in a miscellaneous collection).
Below is a list of the e-book targets that are shared in SFX along with corresponding e-collection in Alma CZ. The shared SFX targets will be available from the NZ.
The PDA/DDA purchased e-book packages are available to every library and there have been no changes to the titles since the packages were finalized after the PDA project ended.
The title list for the PDA/DDA e-book packages are available in the Ebook Central NZ License under the Attachments tab.
| EBOOK PACKAGE NAME IN SFX | CZ COLLECTION NAME |
|---|---|
| ACLS Humanities ebooks (ECC) | ACLS Humanities eBook |
| Ebrary Academic Complete (ECC) | ebrary Acacemic Complete (NEW NAME Ebook Central Academic Complete -former e-collection will be migrated to this new collection in July) Ebrary updates their collection in December and June. They remove and add titles during these months. |
| EBSCOhost eBooks (NetLibrary) (ECC) | EBSCOhost Ebooks |
| ProQuest Safari Tech Books Current (ECC) | ProQuest Safari Tech Books Online Current File (Migrating to Safari O'Reilly Fall 2018) Both ProQuest Safari Tech Books and ProQuest O'Reilly e-collections are active as of March 2019) |
| Coutts (MyiLibrary in SFX) -- PDA/DDA project 2012-13 | MyiLibrary (Migrated to Ebook Central Perpetual & DDA beginning in August 2017) *Ebook Central Perpetual & DDA is updated by the autoload feature in Alma (November 2018) |
| Ebook Library (EBL) -- PDA/DDA project 2012-13 | Ebook Library (will migrate to Ebook Central Perpetual & DDA in July 2017 using the new autoload collection ) |
| Ebrary Perpetual -- PDA/DDA project 2012-13 | ebrary Perpetual Titles (will migrate to Ebook Central Perpetual & DDA in July 2017 using the new autoload collection) |
| (wasn't active in SFX) | JSTOR DDA E-books (ECC) Project still current and funds are available. Should have static list of purchased ebooks by end of April 2019. |
| OTHER EBOOK COLLECTIONS -shared resources in SFX | |
ASCE e-books (Opt-in) | American Society Of Civil Engineers ASCE eBooks |
| Oxford Biblical Studies Online (Opt-in) | Oxford Biblical Studies Online |
| Oxford Handbooks Online Complete (Opt-in) | Oxford Handbooks Online Complete |
| OXFORD ISLAMIC STUDIES ONLINE (Opt-in) | Oxford Islamic Studies Online |
| Oxford Music Online (Opt-in) | Oxford Music Online |
| Oxford Scholarship Online (Opt-in) | Oxford Scholarship Online Complete |
| Oxford University Press African American Studies Center (Opt-in) | Oxford University Press African American Studies Center |
| OPEN ACCESS EBOOK COLLECTIONS -shared in SFX | |
Brill Online open access e-books | Brillonline Open Access Books |
DOAJ free e-books | DOAB Directory of Open Access Books |
Elsevier Science Direct open access e-books | Elsevier Science Direct Open Access Books |
INTECH e-books free | InTech Books Free |
JSTOR open access e-books | JSTOR Books Open Access |
Making of America free e-books | Making of America Cornell Books Free |
Misc free e-books | Miscellaneous Free eBooks |
National Academy of Press Free e-books | National Academies Press |
NCBI Bookshelf | NCBI Bookshelf |
OAPEN open access e-books | OAPEN Free |
OpenEdition e-books free | OpenEdition Books Free |
Springer open access e-books | SpringerLink Open Access eBooks |
Walter de Gruyter open access e-books | Walter De Gruyter: Open Access eBooks |
| ProQuest Ebook Central | Notes from ProQuest |
|---|---|
Multiple copies will also show total number of users, for example if a title is available as single user only, a library can own multiple copies of it and Ebook Central would show your library has access to x single user copies. All subscription titles are available as Unlimited Access (UA) meaning everyone can access at the same time with no limits on users. I have been reaching out to libraries to better explain new functionality in Ebook Central, please forward any inquiries to me and I will help them out. | |
Academic Complete (AC) is a collection of Ebooks and is hosted on the EBC platform. AC contains more than 150,000 titles and is paid for by the ECC. Removals occur in June and December, with the exception of a few titles from various publishers that have legal issues. ProQuest always add many more titles than they remove and they are always available to work with libraries to show usage on titles being removed. All ebook hosting fees for MyiLibrary, ebrary and EBL are waived, due to SDLC’s systemwide subscription to Academic Complete. This includes CSU institutions who own titles purchased directly through firm orders, approval plans and DDA programs. These perpetually owned titles would typically include hosting fees, but the subscription component wipes out all of the hosting for all Ebooks on EBC. In addition, several institutions also own MyiLibrary content, which will be migrated to EBC in the coming weeks and the same applies to those titles (no hosting fees). Ebrary, EBL, and MyiLibrary are all becoming EBC. | |
| A book could potentially have been previously available with unlimited access and now be available only with 3-user access if the book used to be both subscribed and owned as 3-user, and then the book was removed from subscription (or the subscription was cancelled), so that only the 3-user owned access remains. The other way this could potentially happen is if the book had also been bought with unlimited access, and then the unlimited access purchase was refunded, leaving only the previously purchased 3-user access available. | |
SUPO (single concurrent User) is the license a book was offered under ebrary, now called 1U (one concurrent user) in Ebook Central. It is not a collection, but the availability of a title. Ebrary called their licenses; SUPO (1U), 3 User (3U) and MUPO (multiple concurrent user) Ebook Central calls the licenses 1U 1 concurrent user), 3U (3 concurrent users), NL (non-linear lending), and UA (unlimited concurrent access) |