As of August 1, 2018, Humanities E-Book (the ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection (ACLS HEB) is live hosted on the Fulcrum platform. To view the collection, visit fulcrum.org/heb. Please contact aclsheb-info@umich.edu with any issues.
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OpenURL Compliance
ACLS 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, you may use the title-specific handle, which can be found in the book’s catalog record, and the format for which matches the following example:
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The Citable Link may be used to link to a title in the ACLS HEB collection on syllabi and course packs or on learning management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas and D2L.
ADA Compliance and Accessibility
ACLS Humanities E-Book Ebook is live on the Fulcrum platform as of August 1, 2018. From https://fulcrum.org/accessibility
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If you have any further questions, please email subscriptions@hebookaclsheb-info@umich.orgedu.
Printing and Downloading
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Do not distribute the download link — ACLS HEB titles can be accessed by subscribers in a variety of ways, which impacts the URL generated.
A chapter may be downloaded or printed at a time. This is generally sufficient for following a citation or extracting a quotation and follows ACLS HEB’s policy for fair-use rights and limitations.
Please note, ACLS HEB’s XML titles on Fulcrum currently do not support chapter downloads.
ACLS HEB also offers a subset of titles from its collection for purchase separately as print-on-demand or handheld editions.
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Subscribers may share the ACLS 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 ACLS HEB titles, complete with OCLC IDs, are also disseminated via WorldCat, and are available as a separate WorldCat Collection set.
Titles/MARC Records Removed
Since ACLS HEB went live in September 2002, 161 titles have been removed from the collection. Libraries can download a list of those titles (including removal dates) here.
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Stats have been recorded on Fulcrum since our migration on August 1, 2018. You can still access stats from before July 31, 2018 at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/s/stats/subscriber (choose ACLS Humanities E-Book (acls) in scrolling menu).
ACLS HEB stats are COUNTER 5 compliant. The COUNTER 5 standard is markedly different from COUNTER 4. The biggest difference comes in the way the reports count the number of hits. Your stats look different because the new COUNTER 5 standard shows use in a very different way and Fulcrum provides readers with a more modern way of reading which doesn’t rely on individual page views in a page turner.
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IMPORTANT: Several reports are available, but for details on title usage ACLS HEB subscribers should draw on the Title Master Report with the total item requests metric. For general platform usage, subscribers should draw on the Platform Master Report using the total item investigations metric. For details on chapter downloads, subscribers should draw on the Item Master Report using the total item requests metric.
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Quick Reference COUNTER 5 guide
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NOTE: ACLS HEB tracks usage through IP access only. Consequently ACLS HEB does not track off-site 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: ACLS HEB also does not track off-campus password access for secondary schools that do not use a proxy server. Consequently, depending on how ACLS HEB is accessed at those schools, stats for ACLS HEB may seem unexpectedly low.
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If your campus uses a proxy server, it generally needs to be configured with the host names and/or domains of our servers. Please note, since the DLXS platform will remain live until December 2018, librarians should keep the DLXS proxy stanza in place until notified otherwise. Questions? Email subscriptions@hebookaclsheb-info@umich.orgedu.
As of August 1, 2018 these are:
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If you would like to add an IP address to your authorized range (or remove one), please send us your update request by contacting subscriptions@hebookaclsheb-info@umich.orgedu, and the data will be forwarded to our technical support team. We will send a confirmation when the update has been made. Please note there is no separate log-in allowing subscribers to independently enter updates.
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- Your institution must have a SAML-based Identity Provider (IdP) whose metadata we can consume via a stable URL and which defines a security domain using shibMD:scope. This is most commonly achieved through membership to an identity federation that participates in eduGAIN. The following federations have been confirmed to support access to Fulcrum via eduGAIN as of November 2019:
- Canadian Access Federation (CAF)
- HEAnet / Edugate
- InCommon
- UK Federation
- Your Identity Provider must be configured to release attribute 'eduPersonScopedAffiliation' to entityId 'https://fulcrum.org/sp'.
- You must provide us with the entityId of your Identity Provider.
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The University of Michigan Library, which hosts the ACLS HEB collection, may collect some data about your institution’s use of ACLS HEB in order to improve services and to integrate with university teaching and learning initiatives. It is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of user data in compliance with federal and state laws and professional standards. Follow this link to read the university’s Library Privacy Statement, which governs Michigan Publishing’s hosting of ACLS HEB.