Hackelmeier Memorial Library, along with PALNI (the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana) is pleased to announce a pilot project running from April 7 through June 30, 2017 with JSTOR that will provide access to over 22,000 eBooks from thirty-one, mostly University Press publishers and representing books of significant academic quality. PALNI users will have unlimited access to all of the available titles published in 2014 and earlier throughout the pilot period.
These eBooks can be discovered through the library catalog available through each PALNI library and by their users from on- and off-campus via the JSTOR search site: http://www.jstor.org/.
Access to these eBooks includes full-text online reading plus downloads of individual chapters as .pdf files with mobile compatibility and without digital rights management restrictions or a content expiration date.
This trial represents a creative exploration between PALNI and JSTOR of Evidence Based Acquisition, a recently developed model that provides access to a broad range of titles and selective acquisition for ownership by PALNI libraries of titles known to be used. It’s something like “rent to own” – whereby many titles are “rented” and some will actually become owned.
More information about JSTOR eBooks including lists of subject collections can be discovered here: http://about.jstor.org/content-on-jstor-books
The project will also serve to gather data on collection use to support further collaboration in acquisitions and collection management. If the pilot is successful, PALNI will pursue an extension of the project for the July 1, 2017- June 30, 2018, with funding through central funds and library contributions.
About PALNI
The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana was founded in 1992 as one of the first state-wide automated resource sharing networks for private academic libraries. Annual operating costs are shared among the 23 participating small college and seminary libraries throughout the State of Indiana. In addition to sharing library systems and collections, the PALNI libraries have initiatives to share expertise in reference, instruction, management, development, institutional repositories, assessment, and all other information service areas. PALNI is focusing on collaboration between its supported organizations and also external groups to provide enhanced, cost-effective, and valued services to enhance the teaching and learning missions of private higher education in Indiana. More about PALNI is at www.palni.edu.
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