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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Maribel,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The age-old question. I think it entirely depends on your circumstances and can change for each book or subject.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">As a university that has 5 campuses spread across the state, we are e-preferred but have a set criteria and a set formula to follow depending on a number of factors.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Main things to consider are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Enrolled student numbers (all campuses, all semesters if possible)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">DRM rights of the book – can it be copied/downloaded etc, or read online only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Price – anything over a certain price has to be approved by a manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Is print available as a substitute for some copies, and if so, can the required chapters be digitised for the reading list?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">As an example we tend to stick to 1 user licence per 50 students up to 9 total user licences. Unless of course the DRM is terrible, or the price is exorbitant, but we will assess each case title
by title, working with our reading lists team to see what options we have there too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hope that helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] User licenses for textbook eBooks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We’re working with faculty and IDD on a new course and were asked about an unlimited user license for an eBook. Unfortunately, the publisher only offers 1- or 3-user options for this title.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">If unlimited access isn’t available, how should we decide how many licenses to get? Obviously, we need to know expected enrollment, but is there some other metric we can use?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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