Book description
This book provides a companion volume to Digital Library Economics and focuses on the ‘how to’ of managing digital collections and services (of all types) with regard to their financing and financial management. The emphasis is on case studies and practical examples drawn from a wide variety of contexts. A Handbook of Digital Library Economics is a practical manual for those involved - or expecting to be involved - in the development and management of digital libraries.- Provides practical approach to the subject
- Focuses on the challenges associated with the economic and financial aspects of digital developments
- Will be valuable to practitioners, and tutors and students in a wide variety of situations
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- List of figures and tables
- About the authors
- Chapter 1: Digital economics: introduction and overview
- Chapter 2: Sustainability
- Case Study 1: The JSTOR platform
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Case Study 2: Project MUSE
- Abstract.
- Introduction
- The MUSE mission: a balancing act
- The MUSE experiencemanaging the digital transition
- The MUSE experience: reinventing the platform at the article level
- The MUSE experience: adopting a content neutral approach
- The MUSE message: evolve, expand, engage and embrace the future
- Muse 2020
- Case Study 3: Organic, symbiotic digital collection development
- Case Study 4: Developing a portal framework for humanities scholars
- Chapter 3: Models and tools
- Case Study 5: accessCeramics: building and sustaining a global resource for arts education
- Case Study 6: The Chronopolis digital network: the economics of long-term preservation
- Case Study 7: Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models
- Case Study 8: Sustainable economic models: Portico
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Case Study 9: Methods and metrics for assessing the return on investment of public, academic and special libraries
- Abstract.
- Introduction
- Framework for assessing ROI
- Survey methods
- Surveys of public library users
- Surveys of academic faculty and staff
- Special library surveys
- Cost analysis methods
- Return metrics
- Amount of use metrics
- Reasons and purposes of using library services
- Value of library services
- Investment metrics
- Return on investment
- Case Study 10: EZID: a digital library data management service
- Case Study 11: Adding e-books and audiobooks to the search experience: How one vendor addressed customer needs and created a better e-book system for libraries
- Case Study 12: Woodhead Publishing Online – Chandos Publishing Online
- Case Study 13: A cost study of BMCC electronic reserves with a streaming video service
- Case Study 14: National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System in the Netherlands
- Chapter 4: The universal library: realising Panizzi’s dream
- Index
Product information
- Title: A Handbook of Digital Library Economics
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): Chandos Publishing
- ISBN: 9781780633183
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