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 May 2022)
eBook Collection | No. of Titles | No. of Users | Perpetual Access or Subscription? | |
EBSCO eBook Collection |
470 860
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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 | 86 946 |
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. | |
84 963
|
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) |
43 717
|
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) |
41 162
|
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 |
8 306
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence |
Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
SAGE Business Cases | 4 781 | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
CSA OnDemand | 3 991 | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
Harvard Business School Case Study Collection | 2 200 | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) |
2 233
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence |
Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. NOTE re. Elsevier Evolve Nursing textbooks: Due to licensing availability, Seneca libraries is not able to acquire these e-textbooks. They are sold only to end-users directly. See here for further details. |
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SAGE Books & Reference: Business | 662 | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
Oxford Reference |
386
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Mostly Subscription, with a few exceptions (see Note 2 below). | |
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. | |
Fairchild Books Library | 168 | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases | 156 | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
Gale eBooks (formerly Virtual Reference Library) |
186
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Perpetual: Seneca Libraries holds long-term access to these titles. | |
Irwin Law Books Archive via vLex | 129 | 3 concurrent users, per title, only. | Perpetual: Seneca Libraries holds long-term access to these titles. | |
Harvard Business Publishing Core Curriculum | 76 | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
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. | |
LWW Health Library: Made Incredibly Easy! | 33 | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
Ovid |
40
|
Unlimited simultaneous user site licence | Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. | |
Other |
419
|
Varies by title. See Note 1 below. | Perpetual: Seneca Libraries holds long-term access to these titles. | |
TOTAL |
751 625
|
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 and Podcasts (as of 1 May 2022)
Collection | Number of Titles | Number of Users and Perpetual or Subscription |
EBSCO Audiobooks |
731 eAudiobooks
|
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. |
Safari Books Online | 1 660 eAudiobooks | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence. Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. |
Can-Core Academic Video | 3 465 podcasts | Unlimited simultaneous user site licence. Subscription: This is a leased collection and titles in these collections can appear and disappear without warning. |
TOTAL |
5 856
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