[Eril-l] weeding purchased ebooks?

[Melissa Belvadi]

Hi, all.

We've now been purchasing (perpetual access rights) ebooks long enough that
we're starting to run into the situation where an ebook is old enough to be
"wrong" (eg older editions of medical or legal texts), where if this were a
print book, we absolutely would be discarding it. I can see in the COUNTER
data that even when we've bought the newest edition with unlimited simul
users, some patrons are still using the older ones, which could be anything
from harmless to fatal.

We can remove catalog records for older editions, but we can't, to my
knowledge, remove them from the actual platforms, and anyone who looks at
BR3 (denial/turnaway data on books) knows that patrons seem able easily to
find their way to the content on platforms without the help of our catalog
records.

The only platform I know of that makes it easy for us to "remove" an ebook
from access on their platform is Proquest, which has that nice "visible"
checkbox.

I would like to hear from other libraries who have faced this issue and
tried to remove ebooks. What vendors/publishers cooperate and actually
remove the book from your account? What do you have to go through to make
that happen? What recordkeeping do you do internally to track those
requests (eg for auditors)?

Finally if anyone knows of any good publications (articles or books) or
conference presentations on this topic, I would appreciate the references.

Thanks!

Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
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