Name:
Florida Scholarship Online/MIT Press Scholarship Online (E-books from Oxford University Press)
FiscalYear:
2013
Audience:
University Libraries
Submitter:
Kornblau, Amy
Budget Manager:
Lynch, Beth
Project Manager:
Kornblau, Amy I
Dept. Chair:
Miller, William
Local IT:
N/A
Dean:
Miller, William
Facilities:
N/A
OIT:
Campbell, Glen R.
Year 1:
$ 22,531.00
Year 2:
$ 0.00
Year 3:
$ 0.00
Total:
$ 22,531.00
The FAU Libraries are requesting $22,530.66 to purchase e-book collections from Oxford University Press’s Florida Scholarship Online (FLASO) and MIT Press Scholarship Online (MITPSO).
FLASO and
MITPSO are subsets of University Press
Scholarship Online (UPSO) which serves as the academic monograph platform
for content from 13 university presses including the University of California
Press, Stanford University Press, University Press of Florida, MIT Press, and
Oxford University Press, and totaling over 13,500+ titles in 28 subject areas.
The FAU Libraries currently own a collection of history and philosophy e-books
through Oxford Scholarship Online,
the UPSO subset for Oxford University Press.
Oxford has not yet released the list of e-book titles that will be published in FLASO and MITPSO in 2014, but FLASO is slated to add approximately 50 titles at $69.31 per title, while MITPSO could see 30 titles at $48.70 per titles. The amount that the Libraries are requesting would be for the one-time purchase of FLASO content for 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 as well as MITPSO content from 2014. It includes a 20% discount that Oxford University Press is offering to FAU through spring 2014 when the Technology Fee funds are distributed.
New e-book content is added to FLASO and MITPSO three times a year (in January, May, and September). All titles provide simultaneous access and will be discoverable through SearchWiSE (the Libraries’ tool for searching across a variety of quality information that the FAU Libraries provide), the library’s online catalog, and Oxford’s UPSO cross-searchable platform. Users are allowed to print and download (in PDF) single copies of pages from FLASO and MITPSO e-books, but must also abide by the legal notice that is available on the UPSO website. Pages from these e-books can be downloaded to mobile devices that support PDFs.
Collection |
Subjects |
Years |
Number of Titles |
Price |
Florida Scholarship Online |
Archaeology; History; Literature; Music; Society and Culture |
2011-2013
2014 (forthcoming) |
254
50* |
$17,604.16
$3,465.50* |
|
|
|
|
|
MIT Press Scholarship Online |
Business and Management; Computer Science; Economics and Finance; Environmental Science; History; Information Science; Linguistics; Mathematics; Neuroscience; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; & Society and Culture |
2014 (forthcoming) |
30* |
$1,461.00*
|
|
|
|
*figures are approximate |
|
Totals |
334* |
$22,530.66* |
Target Student Population to Be Served by the Project
E-books are ideal for students in both distance learning and face-to-face courses, and provide simultaneous access to all students, faculty, and staff, which is a great benefit to multi-campus institutions such as FAU. Many of the FLASO and MITPSO books support student course work and faculty research in areas that include but are not limited to Florida history and culture, Latin American Studies, English literature, African American history, behavioral neuroscience, media studies, econometrics, climate studies, and bioethics.
Space Administration
No physical space is needed to store the content of the FLASO and MITPSO e-books. The resources would be made accessible 24/7 to current students, faculty, and staff on campus and remotely through EZproxy.
Florida Scholarship Online/MIT Press Scholarship Online can be purchased as soon as funds are available.
FAU Libraries Electronic Resources
Fiscal Year 1 | Fiscal Year 2 | Fiscal Year 3 | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hardware One-Time | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Hardware Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Software One-time | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Software Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Personnel One-time | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Personnel Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Other One-time | $ 22,531.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 22,531.00 |
Other Recurring | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 |
Totals | $ 22,531.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 22,531.00 |
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