UC Libraries Springer eBooks Pilot

The UC campuses have recently obtained perpetual access to nearly every Springer ebook published in English and German from 2005 to 2009, including Landolt-Bornstein, the largest compilation of data in physics and chemistry. The collection includes 20,000+ books from every scientific discipline and many social sciences.

The UC Libraries selected Springer eBooks for the first major systemwide ebook pilot at UC because of Springer's favorable licensing and business terms. The licensing terms are in line with the UC Libraries’ Guiding Principles for Collecting Books in Electronic Format (Collection Development Committee, May 2008) including broad academic use rights, favorable Interlibrary Loan provisions, perpetual ownership, unlimited concurrent users, and digital rights management (DRM) - free format. In addition, a shared UC print copy of each of the books has been included in the package, allowing the UC Libraries to experiment with a largescale conversion from print to electronic format in a controlled manner and reduce duplicative acquisitions across the campuses without sacrificing the benefits of print.

The books will be linked from campus catalogs as well as from Melvyl, WorldCat Local, UC-eLinks and Google Scholar. They can also be browsed or searched directly at http://springerlink.com.

Electronic ILL is permitted for the Springer ebooks. Shared print copies for all of the books published from 2009 forward will be housed at UC Merced and will be available for loan both within UC and via ILL to other institutions. The shared print copies should begin to be available at UC Merced this summer. On the Springer ebook site, UC library patrons can also use the print-on-demand purchase option called "MyCopy" to order a printed copy for personal use. (Springer ebooks ILL FAQ).

The pilot will include a detailed assessment phase to evaluate the success of the pilot in the areas of collection development, technical services, and user experience. Documents will be posted to this page as they become available.

See the Public Release here: [DOC]

Check out the library poster here: [DOC]

Springer eBooks Titles

Books are available in the following categories and click here to view and download the most current list of ebook titles published by Springer from 2005 to 2009.

Springer eTextbooks: 2005-2009 [XLS] updated in July, 2009. ---Sorted by Author

**Springer eTextbooks: 2005-2009 updated in July, 2009. ---Sorted by Subject Collection**

Check out the ebooks online! Sample ebook & sample chapter: Introduction to Boolean Algebras ; sample chapter.

Due to author preference or rights issues, there are some books for which Springer does not hold electronic rights.

The list of excluded individual titles and the list of excluded series: [XLS] updated in August, 2008.

eBooks Usage Report

2009 ebooks usage summary reports: [password-protected] [XLS]
2008 ebooks usage summary reports by campus and by collection: [password-protected] [XLS]

Springer eBooks Pilot Task Force

The pilot is being overseen by a cross-functional task force coordinated by CDL. Members of the task force are listed below. For information, please see the task force charge [DOC]

Task Force Members

Ivy Anderson, CDL, (Co-Chair)	Jacqueline Wilson, CDL (Co-Chair)
Janet Carter, UCLA	Jim Dooley, UC Merced
Martha Hruska, UC San Diego	Keith Powell, UC Irvine
Brian Quigley, UC Berkeley	Lucia Snowhill, UC Santa Barbara
Adolfo Tarango, UC San Diego / SCP	Wendy Parfrey, CDL
Michele Potter, UC Riverside (Resource Liaison)	Chan Li, CDL

If you have any general questions regarding this project, please contact Michele Potter (michelep@ucr.edu).

Document Owner: Chan Li

Last reviewed: February 2nd, 2009

URL: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/springerebooks/index.html