ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4214-9917
Abstract
Scholars Portal has been aggregating locally loaded e-books for Ontario universities on an ebrary-backed platform since 2009—eons ago in the world of library technology! Over the last year, Scholars Portal Books has received a rewrite from the ground up, and this time the focus is on building a platform that anticipates the future of e-book access and usage. No surprise that there have been many challenges along the way, and most of them are unique to consortia: How do we handle corrections to old PDFs? What do we do with six ISBNs? More broadly, how do we support local scholarship at scale, and how can we make space for the open educational resources increasingly being integrated into higher education? This session looked at the complex e-book landscape through a consortial lens—from licensing and entitlements management, to wrangling a dozen XML schemas and implementing ever-changing DRM restrictions, toward the ultimate goal of preserving Ontario universities’ books content for the long term.
What’s Past Is . . . Still Messing With Our Workflows
Scholars Portal has been aggregating locally loaded e-books for Ontario universities on an ebrary-backed platform since 2009—eons ago in the world of library technology! Over the last year, Scholars Portal Books has received a rewrite from the ground up, and this time the focus is on building a platform that anticipates the future of e-book access and usage. No surprise that there have been many challenges along the way, and most of them are unique to consortia: How do we handle corrections to old PDFs? What do we do with six ISBNs? More broadly, how do we support local scholarship at scale, and how can we make space for the open educational resources increasingly being integrated into higher education? This session looked at the complex e-book landscape through a consortial lens—from licensing and entitlements management, to wrangling a dozen XML schemas and implementing ever-changing DRM restrictions, toward the ultimate goal of preserving Ontario universities’ books content for the long term.