Lizenzmodelle für digitale Schulbücher in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken

Ergebnisse und Perspektiven einer Markt und Bedarfsanalyse

Abstract

With the “Digital Pakt Schule” (Digital Pact for Schools) initiated in 2019, the digital transformation in school education is also being accelerated in Germany and new teaching and learning methods are being developed for the classroom. Educational media publishers have geared their business models for digital textbooks primarily to schools and teachers. The needs of libraries have not been considered so far. Based on a market analysis of existing licensing models, the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI), within the framework of the Specialist Information Service (FID) Educational Science and Educational Research, has elicited the requirements of academic libraries that want to make digital textbooks available to their users. The article presents the results of the needs assessment and shows how educational media publishers must design electronic access rights, acquisition methods and distribution channels, among other things, so that academic libraries can optimally support research and teacher education. The central finding is that educational media publishers could take up proven structures and offers of academic publishers in their cooperation with libraries. This serves as a basis to developing together licenses for digital textbooks in academic libraries.