Springer e-books – over 6,700 more permanent-access titles purchased

Sunday 19 April 2015

The recent SHEDL (Scottish Higher Education Digital Library) collaborative purchasing consortium negotiation with e-book publishers has resulted in an outright collective purchase of the 12 Springer subject e-book collections.

After the end of the recent extended trial period for Springer e-book content, usage statistics were used to identify the most heavily-used titles for permanent-access purchase (Evidence Based Selection), across all the SHEDL libraries.

We now have access to the 2015 Springer titles, through the Springer website, and details of these will be added to SAULCAT shortly.

St Andrews also has permanent access to all the other e-books bought by other SHEDL libraries, after the end of the initial trial period.

The agreement includes:

over 6,700 books, in total

collections covering 2010-2016 (end of 2015), though the agreement may be extended later, to include other years

material is owned in perpetuity

German language material is excluded

all textbooks, monographs, book series, and reference works are included

material is 100% Digital Rights Management (DRM) free, so it's possible for you to print and e-mail chapters without restriction

Springer e-books – over 6,700 more permanent-access titles purchased

After the end of the recent extended trial period for Springer e-book content, usage statistics were used to identify the most heavily-used titles for permanent-access purchase (Evidence Based Selection), across all the SHEDL libraries.

We now have access to the 2015 Springer titles, through the Springer website, and details of these will be added to SAULCAT shortly.

St Andrews also has permanent access to all the other e-books bought by other SHEDL libraries, after the end of the initial trial period.

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