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fully prepared. We’re now seeing gaps between those high demand e-resources and the model available to acquire them, and pricing is a part of this,’ he added. ‘The issues are complicated but ultimately, the most important outcome is that these digital resources get into the hands of the users – there’s no use in offering content that a library can’t afford.’ Clearly, University of Gloucestershire’s


Anderson agrees. However, she also wonders if aggregators could apply more pressure to publishers when it comes to ebook pricing: ‘Shouldn’t aggregators be joining forces with librarians, as publishers are making ebooks so expensive that we can’t actually buy from them?’ ‘I believe some publishers are


overstepping the mark, by asking us to sign up with third-party providers, such as Kortext and Bibliu, and dictating what we have access to,’ she added. ‘I get asked if [high ebook pricing] is widespread – well, this is what I’ve come to expect and I’m now shocked if there’s one that’s a reasonable price.’ So what comes next? Beit-Arie believes the demand for print books will ‘bounce back’ in the future, but also expects the elevated demand for ebooks to continue:


“We have the expertise in higher education to produce content ourselves”


‘We believe that most academic librarians are e-first now.’ Given this, solutions to tackle pricing model issues are needed, and fast. Beit- Arie is absolutely certain that now is the time to create pricing models that will work for both publishers and libraries, but cautions that ‘there is no single magical solution’. Right now, ProQuest is considering how


its acquisition models can help libraries to support curriculums with scalable, high- demand collections, and is also looking at workflows designed around libraries acquiring for purpose. However, he also reckons that more open access books, as well as open educational resources (OERs), could form part of the answer. ‘We are focused on content curation and expansion for librarians, and there is a growing range of


titles and collections available, including open access and OERs,’ he said. ‘We will need a range of options to solve this problem, but open educational resources and textbooks are a part of this.’ RLUK’s Prosser also advocates OERs as one route forward. He pointed out that such freely available online teaching and learning materials are widespread in the US, with UK-based organisations, including University College London and The Open University, also now sharing educational output. ‘If we’re thinking about long-term


remedies, open educational resources really excite me,’ he said. ‘My hope would be that some of the clear outrage that we are seeing with ebooks, will be leveraged by the community into some really qualitative thoughts on what we can do to sort these problems.‘ Anderson concurred. ‘I would argue that


we have the expertise in higher education to produce the content ourselves – our academics write the books and it is often public money that funds the research,’ she said. ‘If publishers want to price themselves out of relevance, then universities must come together and do it themselves.’


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