SHEDL
E-BOOK GROUP
Chair: Aileen Foreman (University of Strathclyde)
Vice Chair: Wendy Walker (University of Glasgow)
This group negotiates contracts for the supply of e-books with the support of APUC. They meet twice a year for review meetings with the Print Book Group. There are 7 Lots within this group:
Lot 1 - Title by Title purchases
This Lot has been awarded to EBSCO, Browns Books, ProQuest LLC, Kortext and BibliU
Lot 2 - Title by Title purchase & eBook Collections (Publisher direct via an aggregator)
This Lot has been awarded to Browns Books, EBSCO, and ProQuest
Lot 3 - Aggregated Subscription Packages
Awarded to ProQuest LLC, EBSCO Information and BibliU
Lot 4 - Aggregated Perpetual Collections or EBA
Current suppliers are ProQuest LLC, EBSCO Information, BibliU and Browns Books
Lot 5 - E-Textbooks
Current suppliers are Kortext, BibliU, Browns Books and VitalSource
Lot 6 - Individual Titles & eBook Collections
Awarded to Bloomsbury PLC, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxford University Press, World Scientific Publishing (UK), John Wiley & Sons Inc., Cambridger Unversity Press and De Gruyter
Lot 7 - Individual Titles & eTextbook Collections
This Lot has been awarded to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, John Wiley & Sons Inc. and World Scientific Publishing (UK)
Existing SHEDL Deals - eBook Collections with unconstrained DRM
The group also has exisiting deals from the previous framework agreement which are with Elsevier, Oxford University Press and Springer Nature. Past deals have included Cambridge University Press, Sage and Wiley.