Glossary of ebrary terms
3USER– Three-user perpetual license. A title purchased as 3USER means three (3) users can access the document concurently. Not all documents are available in 3USER or MUPO license, and MUPO license is not available to corporate, K/12, or public libraries.
Book – A document available on ebrary. Interchangeably called book, document, or title. Most ebrary titles are books, but some are journals, maps, or sections of books made available as a separate document by the publisher.
Channel – Also referred to as a site. A hosted ebrary website that provides access to all the documents (subscription, perpetual access, or DASH) for a particular customer such as a school, company, university, or public library.
Collection – An aggregate of books sharing one more similar attributes.
DASH! - Stands for ‘Data Sharing Fast’. It’s an ebrary product that empowers libraries to create, upload, and share their own PDF collections, right from their own computers.
DDA – Demand Driven Acquisition. It is YBP’s ebrary PDA.
eBOP - ebrary Ordering Platform. An eBOP title one that has been purchased from ebrary as a perpetual access title.
Extended Access – Also referred to as Turnaway Prevention, allows an administrator to set rules for a sought-after, but in-use, single-user title to initiate a just-in-time loan, upgrade, or additional purchase – thereby extending availability on demand.
Loan - Also referred to as Short-Term Loan or STL. A loan is an ebrary book that is made available on an ebrary site for 1 day or 1 week (depending on the library’s preferences) at a fraction of the book’s purchase price.
Multi-user – Multi-user titles can be accessed by an unlimited number of users at the same time. All titles in subscription collections (for example, Academic Complete) are multi-user. And purchased titles, if purchased as MUPO, are multi-user.
MUPO – Multi-user perpetual license. A title purchased as MUPO can be accessed by an unlimited number of users at a time. Perpetual access titles can be purchased as either single-user-only (SUPO), three-user (3USER), or multi-user (MUPO). Not all documents are available for 3USER or MUPO purchase, and MUPO is not available to corporate, K/12, or public libraries.
PDA – Patron Driven Acquisition. A purchasing model whereby a library provides a set of books to their patrons, without having to pre-purchase all of them. If a book gets sufficient use, it is then “triggered” for purchase.
Perpetual Access – Purchased titles. An ebrary site has access to perpetual access titles (i.e., titles they have purchased) as long as they have access to their ebrary site. Even if a publisher pulls a title from ebrary, if an ebrary site has purchased the title it will not be taken away.
Site – An ebrary site (also called a “channel”) is a hosted ebrary website that provides access to all the documents (subscription, perpetual access, or DASH) for a particular customer such as a school, company, university, or public library.
STL – Short-Term Loan. A loan is an ebrary book that is made available on an ebrary site for 1 day or 1 week (depending on the library’s preferences) at a fraction of the book’s purchase price.
Subscription collection – A set of documents that are essentially leased to an ebrary site, typically on an annual basis. The specific documents in subscription collections can change without prior notice, but the expectation is that we will add more than we remove. The Admin NEWS tab announces changes as possible. MARC record adds and deletes reflect all additions to and removals from your subscription collections. If an ebrary site requires guaranteed access to a particular document (i.e., it is being assigned for a class), the library should purchase it because with subscription collections, there is no guarantee that the title won’t be removed.
SUPO – Single-user-only perpetual license. A title purchased as SUPO can only be accessed by one user at a time. Perpetual access titles can be purchased as either single-user-only (SUPO), three-user (3USER), or multi-user (MUPO). Not all documents are available for 3USER or MUPO purchase, and MUPO is not available to corporate, K/12, or public libraries.
Title – Often used to mean an ebrary document; interchangeably called book, document, or title. Most ebrary documents are actual books, but some are journals, maps, or sections of books made available as a separate document by the publisher.
Triggerable use – The amount and type of use required for a PDA or STL+PDA document to be triggered for purchase or loan. See the knowledge base for the details of what constitutes triggerable use: http://support.ebrary.com/english/1586
Turnaway - When a user tries to open an ebrary document but it is a single-user book (or the last copy of a 3USER book) that’s already in use. The user is alerted to this and are asked if they would like to queue for it.
Turnaway Prevention – also referred to as Extended Access, allows an administrator to set rules for a sought-after, but in-use, single-user title to initiate a just-in-time loan, upgrade, or additional purchase – thereby extending availability on demand.