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Access and Browser Requirements
Books may be accessed directly from links in the MARC records that have been loaded into the catalog of a subscribing institution. These records contain stable URLs that represent the most reliable way to reach the material at our site. If a subscribing institution has an access system that requires that URLs be rewritten, such as for proxy service, statistics tabulation, etc., that institution will need to make those local modifications to the URLs as system access requires.
For most access problems (particularly off-campus), including any proxy server questions, please consult the list of common access problems at:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/digital-library-production-service-dlps/dlps-common-access-problems.
If you experience any browser compatibility issues, you may want to try downloading an updated browser from one of the following sites: Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari.
HEB is OpenURL compliant on the title level, but not on the chapter and page level. In order to offer the most stable link to an individual title, please use the title-specific handle, which can be found in the book's catalog record, and the format for which matches the following example:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01234.0001.001For guidance on linking to text sections, see below.
HEB currently does not support permanent URLs to the chapter/section level. However, if users wish to create links for individual text sections within a title (e.g., for course-reserve reading), if properly formed, URLs should remain relatively stable. HEB will alert subscribers to any changes in the URL configurations, which will be timed to have minimal impact.
When linking to text sections in individual titles, the following protocol applies:
For page-image books, include URL elements c, idno, view=image, and seq
Link example: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=acls;idno=heb02308.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000027
For books with XML encoded text, include URL elements c, idno, rgn, view=text, and node parameter
Link example: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb90009.0001.001;view=text;rgn=div1;node=heb90009.0001.001:6
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB), along with its technical partner, the University of Michigan Libraries, is currently reviewing HEB for ADA compliance and making improvements to the site based on this review. Completion of the initial improvements is ongoing and a statement on ADA compliance will be posted to the HEB site once the work is complete.
ACLS Humanities E-Book follows fair-use rights and restrictions for all books on the site. Since most material on this site is licensed for electronic distribution only, fair-use restrictions should be carefully followed by users for any printing. This means that you may print pages for your personal research use only. If, as an instructor, you want to use material in a course, you can provide the permanent URL on the title record page and the appropriate page numbers to students. If you want to photocopy pages for your course, you must apply directly to the original publisher for permission.
For best printing results see Viewing Options above and choose “Page pdf.” The default setting is set to both view and print three pages at a time. This is generally sufficient for following a citation or extracting a quotation and follows HEB’s policy for fair-use rights and limitations. If in doubt, or for further information, see our section on fair use.
MARC records are available free to subscribers and can be downloaded here.
As of September 2012, the following files are available:
acls9.zip (includes 392 records for the 404 books added in July 2012, plus one corrected record)
New subscribers or those who have not recently updated their catalogs should download the cumulative file, acls1-9.1.zip, which includes MARC records for all HEB titles currently available. If you have previously downloaded records for the July 2012 release, the set released in September is identical except for the following: The control number in field 001 was streamlined for a subset of records, records for 18 titles have been removed (the existing link in your catalog will now lead to an inactive title record page; please see below for a list of all titles removed to date), and this batch includes one new frontlist title released in September. (HEB will typically release 2-3 frontlist titles per year in between official "rounds".)
PLEASE NOTE: All MARC records going forward will be made available in Unicode UTF-8 format rather than the older MARC-8 format. The records are MARC21, USMARC records prepared by the University of Michigan Libraries. There is a discrepancy between the number of files and the number of books in the collection due to the fact that multi-volume sets have a single record. Every effort has been made to bring these records up to current national standards.
Fixed Fields:
- Record Type: a - Language material
- BLvl: d - Subunit of a collection
- 001 System-supplied control number
- 005 Date and time of latest transaction
- 006
- Form of material: m - Computer file
- Type of computer file: m - Combination
- 007 Record characteristics for remote access computer file format for textual data
Variable Fields:
- 035 A unique identifier of the record
- 040 MiU |c MiU (University of Michigan NUC symbol)
- 090 LC call number derived from the original print version
- 260 Record publisher information pertinent to the original print source
- 300 Physical description for the original print source
- 533 Reproduction note on the processing of the page-image version - or
- 534 Original version note for text-based items
- 6XX Relevant LCSH assignments
- 7XX Additional access points
- 830 Uniform title series added entry
- 856 URL for Electronic access
MARC records are provided “as is.” A free MARC editing tool known as “MarcEdit” can be downloaded from:http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/downloads.html.
Subscribers may share the HEB bibliographic records and metadata with third-party, not for profit databases as well as other service developers and providers working to make this data more broadly accessible as long as the records are not being resold by any party.
Records for all HEB titles, complete with OCLC IDs, are also disseminated via WorldCat, and are available as a separate WorldCat Collection set.
Since HEB went live in September 2002, eighty-four titles have been removed from the collection. Libraries can download a list of those titles here.
Institutional subscribers can access their stats at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/s/stats/subscriber (choose ACLS Humanities E-Book (acls) in scrolling menu).
HEB stats are COUNTER compliant. (Be sure your email will receive emails and emails with attachments from dlxs-info@umich.edu.)
IMPORTANT: Even though four reports are technically available, for details on title usage HEB subscribers should draw ONLY on COUNTER Book Report 2. The reason for this is that BR1 provides data only on those digital texts that the user can view in their entirety all at once. This does not apply to any of the books in the HEB collection, which can be viewed exclusively on a page-by-page or section-by-section basis. Therefore, only BR2 will give an accurate picture of title usage for HEB.
- CUSTOM report will provide total browse requests, searches, and page/text views across the collection by month.
- COUNTER Book Report 1 will provide the number of successful full title requests by month (not applicable for HEB).
- COUNTER Book Report 2 will provide the number of successful requests for an individual page image or section of digital text (such as a chapter or section) with title information for each month.
- COUNTER Book Report 5 will provide data on searches but with title information as well.
NOTE: HEB tracks usage through IP access. Consequently HEB does not track institutional access through ATHENS or SHIBBOLETH. Athens and Shibboleth users need to combine the results of HEB stats with those stats for an accurate picture of usage.
NOTE: HEB also does not track off-campus password access for secondary schools that do not use a proxy server. Consequently, depending on how HEB is accessed at those schools, stats for HEB may seem unexpectedly low.
If your campus uses a proxy server, it generally needs to be configured with the host names and/or domains of our servers. As of 2008-11 these are:
Title ACLS Humanities E-Book
URL http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
HostJavaScript ets.umdl.umich.edu
HostJavaScript hdl.handle.net
HostJavaScript hdl.lib.umich.edu
HostJavaScript name.umdl.umich.edu
HostJavaScript quod.lib.umich.edu
HostJavaScript www.hti.umich.edu
For the proxy service to take effect, users at your campus or institution need to access the service via a connection through the proxy server, not directly. Your proxy server administrator can provide you with a proper URL for linking to our service; ensure that your users are entering via that URL.
If you experience problems that result in being prompted for authentication, inability to reach the authentication page itself, or receiving a message that collections are not authorized, please consult: http://www.lib.umich.edu/digital-library-production-service-dlps/dlps-common-access-problems.
HEB now provides Shibboleth service via the UK Federation. Support for other federations is possible. If you are interested, please contact us at info@hebook.org for details.
rev. 05/07/13