Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: Interest in Occam's Reader group within ASERL & WRLC?

[John Burger (jburger]

ASERL and WRLC Resource Sharing Friends:

 

We are exploring the feasibility of starting an Occam’s Reader group within ASERL and WRLC, to facilitate sharing of e-book content among our members. 

 

You may recall Occam's Reader provides a single, secure method for lending libraries to share eBooks and similar resources.  Users of the Occam's Reader system receive an email generated by the lending institution. This email includes a customized, token-authenticated link to view their item in a web browser.  For more information about how this works, please see the web-demo at http://occamsreader.org/.

 

NOTE:  At this time, only one publisher (Springer) has agreed to allow their e-book content to be shared using the Occam’s Reader system.   The developers are hoping to attract wider publisher participation as more libraries adopt the system, but for now Springer is the only content provider.

 

COST:  Occam’s Reader is available at a flat-rate annual subscription. 

·         The cost is $500/library/year. 

·         If we are able to attract 10 or more ASERL/WRLC libraries, the cost is $450/library/year. 

·         If we get 20 or more ASERL/WRLC libraries to participate, the cost drops to $400/library/year. 

 

We are hoping to create a cadre of libraries with existing resource sharing relationships to experiment with the use of Occam’s Reader for a year or two, to see if it provides a useful complement to their other resource sharing services.

 

INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THE ASERL-WRLC OCCAM’S READER GROUP?   Please contact me (jburger [at] aserl.org) via reply email by February 29.

 

Please contact John Burger (jburger [at] aserl.org) with any questions.  Thank you.

 

John Burger, Executive Director Association of Southeastern Research Libraries    ASERL    c/o Georgia State University Library - Administration Suite LS7    100 Decatur Street SE    Atlanta, GA 30303-3202    Telephone:  404-413-2896

Mark D. Jacobs Executive Director Washington Research Library Consortium 901 Commerce Drive Upper Marlboro, MD  20774 301.390.2031 (w)    jacobs [at] wrlc.org 301.395.8112 (c)    http://www.wrlc.org