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E-Book management challenges• Variety of formats• Purpose and use• Diversity of software and hardware products/platforms• Digital rights management• Varying pricing models• Licensing models and ownership• Lack of standards• Discovery and accessibility• Provision of archival access

Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA CRICOS Provider Number: 00100G

E-Books at UNSW@ADFA

Diversity of content• Commercial• Free• Institutional

Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA CRICOS Provider Number: 00100G

Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA CRICOS Provider Number: 00100G

Commercial providers

• Content collections• Reference works/Encyclopedias• Monograph series• Conference series

Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA CRICOS Provider Number: 00100G

Content collections

ENGnetBASE Knovel ebooks

National Academies PressSafari Tech Books Online

Praeger Security International Online Literature Online

NetLibrary

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Reference works

Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford English Dictionary Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

SpringerLink Online Reference Works

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Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of astronomy and astrophysics Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences

Encyclopedia of Mathematics Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences

Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies

Enyclopedia of materials and technology

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Freely available material

• Think tanks (ASPI, Lowry Institute, Rand)• Research reports (defence/strategic centres,

universities)• Government documents (Australia, US)• International/Regional organisations

(UN,ASEAN )• Open Access Repositories• Project Gutenberg

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Institutional content

Digitised material for UNSW@ADFA studentsPurchased “one-off”Higher degree theses (ADT)

http://adt.caul.edu.au/homesearch/advancedsearch/?member=adfa.edu.au

UNSWorks http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Index

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Managing Access

Federated search CrossSearch

Advantages

single interface for discovery

http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au/webvoy.shtml

“hybrid electric cars”

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Links in our Catalogue

Individual freely avail. e-booksSignificant e-book collectionStudent Course materialPurchased “one-off” Collection link http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au/webvoy.shtml

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Challenges for UNSW@ADFA

Scale

Books more complex

Identifers

Business/pricing models

Access (catalogue isn’t the solution)