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Pricing in Channel Book Supply Chain Considering Possibility of Selling E-Book under Fixed and Decreasing Demands [PDF]

open access: yesمدیریت تولید و عملیات, 2019
The purpose of this research is to determine the optimal wholesale and final prices of printed and electronic books in a dual channel supply chain. Here, a comprehensive sensitivity analysis has been conducted on different supply chain parameters such as
Kamran Kianfar, Mitra PashootaniZadeh
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The evolution of an e-book demand-driven acquisition programme at Swinburne University of Technology

open access: yesInsights: The UKSG Journal, 2017
In 2006 Swinburne University of Technology became the first library in the world to launch a large-scale implementation of a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programme for e-books.
Tony Davies
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Demand-Driven Acquisition E-books Have Equal Cost Per Use as Print, but DDA Has Much More Active Use Overall

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2015
A Review of: Downey, K., Zhang, Y., Urbano, C., & Klinger, T. (2014). A comparative study of print book and DDA e-book acquisition and use. Technical Services Quarterly, 31 (2), 139-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2014.875379 Abstract
Laura Newton Miller
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Establishment of an electronic library in forensic psychiatric wards: a survey of its actual use by forensic inpatients [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry
Background Similar to prison inmates, patients in forensic psychiatric wards may have restricted access to information. From a human rights perspective, improving information access is a desirable objective.
Koji Takeda   +17 more
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Überregionaler Zugang zu E-Books und E-Journals bei ZB MED durch Fernzugrifflizenzen

open access: yesGMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information, 2021
The article introduces the ZB MED remote access licenses, the licensed content and how to get the virtual ZB MED card.
Adolph, Claudia   +4 more
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Implementation & Management of a Consortial Demand-Driven E-Books Pilot: The USMAI Experience [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2015
This issue's ERM Ideas and Innovations column is from Randall A. Lowe, Collection Development, Acquisitions & Serials Librarian, Frostburg State University, and Lynda Aldana, Head of Technical Serv...
Randall A. Lowe, Lynda Aldana
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Implementing E-Book Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) At Asbury Theological Seminary

open access: yesTCB: Technical Services in Religion & Theology, 2023
As we explored the potential for DDA, we quickly realized everything that had been promised was not as it appeared.
Don Butterworth   +2 more
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Comparison of E-Book Acquisitions Strategies Across Disciplines Finds Differences in Cost and Usage

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2017
A Review of: Carrico, S.B., Cataldo, T.T., Botero, C., & Shelton, T. (2015). What cost and usage data reveals about e-book acquisitions: Ramifications for collection development. ALCTS, 59(3).
Laura Costello
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Cross-Generation Analysis of e-Book Consumers’ Preferences—A Prerequisite for Effective Management of Public Library

open access: yesInformation, 2020
Nowadays, with the growing importance of providing digital services, public libraries offer a wide range of e-books. However, current studies show that reading preferences vary across countries, and identifying e-book demand is therefore difficult.
Viktor Prokop, Jan Stejskal
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Book selling and e-books in Sweden

open access: yesLibellarium: Journal for the Research of Writing, Books, and Cultural Heritage Institutions, 2015
This paper addresses the issue of the understanding of the book-selling situation as Swedish booksellers see it. It pursues the answers to the following questions: 1.
Elena Maceviciute   +2 more
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