[Eril-l] Perpetual Access to Elsevier titles?

[Heather Shipman]

We’ve cancelled ebook series on ScienceDirect before, but we haven’t tried to host them locally, as far as I know. We’ve just left the ones we bought perpetual access to hosted on ScienceDirect. We didn’t have to make any special requests for this to happen, it’s just the default. The series-level page looks funny because we have access to some of the ebooks but not others – we sometimes get troubleshooting questions about why we have access to some but not others – but that problem manifests when we firm-order single titles out of a series, too.

Sorry I don’t have anything useful to say about hosting them locally. I’m not sure what we would do if it came to that – usually if we have to host an ebook locally, we load it to our institutional repository and put it behind a campus authentication, but we have kind of a lot of ScienceDirect ebooks, so I don’t know if our IR would be down with that.

I’d also be interested to know the answers. “How perpetual is perpetual” is one of the broad ebook questions we’ve only recently begun to have shreds of time to examine.

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Heather Shipman
E-resources Acquisition Specialist
110 Olin Library, Cornell University
Heather.shipman at cornell.edu<mailto:Heather.shipman at cornell.edu>




From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of McClung, Sarah
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 6:20 PM
To: Crawford, Laurel <Laurel.Crawford at unt.edu>; eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Perpetual Access to Elsevier titles?

Hi Laurel,

When we decided not to subscribe to ClinicalKey, Elsevier gave us two options for the ebooks we had purchased perpetual rights to on the MDConsult platform:


·         Host them for us as chapter PDFs on a separate, dedicated site (perpetual.elsevier.com)

·         Send us a CD containing the files (I’m assuming they would also be PDFs on the CD, but I can’t say for sure)

We chose the first option so that we wouldn’t have to host them ourselves. I know this doesn’t exactly answer your question. With other files we’ve had to host locally, we’ve uploaded them to our institutional Box account and limited access to “people in your company” so users are prompted to log in with their university credentials in order to view the file.

I hope this helps!
Sarah

Sarah J. McClung
Collection Development Librarian
University of California, San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 502-2184



From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org>> on behalf of "Crawford, Laurel" <Laurel.Crawford at unt.edu<mailto:Laurel.Crawford at unt.edu>>
Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 2:10 PM
To: eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>>
Subject: [Eril-l] Perpetual Access to Elsevier titles?

Hello all,

Have any of you ever cancelled a subscription for Elsevier ebooks and enacted your perpetual access rights?
We’re trying to figure out in which format the ‘electronic copy’ of titles we are permitted to load on a local server will look like.

If you have loaded them locally, and allow users to access them without being on ScienceDirect, how has the functionality worked out?  Any issues?

Thanks for any input you have.

--Laurel

Laurel Sammonds Crawford
Head of Collection Development
University of North Texas Libraries
laurel.crawford at unt.edu<mailto:laurel.crawford at unt.edu>
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