Question: Will everyone in my class be able to access the title at the same time?
Answer: Maybe yes, maybe no.
Question: Is the title guaranteed to be there all semester or over multiple semesters if I want to use it every year?
Answer: Often yes, maybe no.
For more information on determining whether we have perpetual/long-term access to a title or a subscription, please see Note 2 located beneath the chart on the right.
Questions:
1. Are publishers’ current/recent titles, especially textbooks, available in these collections?
2. What about the e-textbooks that are being sold to our students?
Answers:
1. Sometimes yes, often no.
2. Definitely no.
eBooks (as of 1 January 2021)
eBook Collection | No. of Titles | No. of Users | Perpetual Access or Subscription? | ||
EBSCO eBook Collection |
429 854
|
Titles may be single-user or multiple-user. To find out how many users for a given title there are, see Note 1 below. |
Titles may be perpetual access or subscription. To find out which titles are which, see Note 2 below. | ||
desLibris | 84 426 |
The books in this collection (i.e. the non-public documents) are 1-user copies only. The public documents/government documents are Unlimited simultaneous user copies. To find out how many users for a given title there are, see Note 1 below. |
Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | ||
61 877
|
Titles may be single-user or multiple-user. To find out how many users for a given title there are, see Note 1 below. |
Titles may be perpetual access or subscription. To find out which titles are which, see Note 2 below. | |||
Safari Books Online (also known as O'Reilly for Higher Education) |
40 774
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence |
Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | ||
Skillsoft Books (formerly known as Books 24x7) (comprised of ITPro, BusinessPro, FinancePro, and EngineeringPro) |
36 822
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence |
Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | ||
CRC ENGnetBASE/Taylor & Francis eBooks |
7 051
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence |
Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | ||
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) |
1 809
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence |
Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | ||
Oxford Reference |
304
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Mostly Subscription, with a few exceptions (see Note 2 below). | ||
Gale eBooks (formerly Virtual Reference Library) |
119
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Perpetual: Seneca Libraries holds long-term access to these titles. | ||
Literature Resource Center (Gale) |
43
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | ||
Ovid |
30
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | ||
Berg Fashion Library |
168
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | ||
Other |
242
|
Varies by title. See Note 1 below. | Perpetual: Seneca Libraries holds long-term access to these titles. | ||
TOTAL |
663 519
|
Note 1: How to determine the number of simultaneous users for a particular title:
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Note 2: How to determine whether we have perpetual/long-term access to a title or a subscription:
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eAudiobooks (as of 1 January 2021)
Collection | Number of Titles | Number of Users and Perpetual or Subscription |
EBSCO Audiobooks |
733
|
eAudiobook titles in this collection are one-copy/one-user-at-a-time titles that may also be "signed out" for an extended period by a user. But they are all perpetual access titles; we hold long-term access to them. |
TOTAL |
733
|