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Information Today March 31, 2011 |
ebrary and YBP Library Services Announce Integrated Demand Driven Acquisition and Short Term Loans The new program enables libraries to cost-effectively and efficiently provide patrons with access to vast amounts of information through their existing YBP workflow and only purchase ebooks that are used. |
Information Today April 30, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Ebook Solution for Medical Libraries The new, discounted packs include essential ebooks from publishers such as Informa Healthcare, F.A. Davis Company, and Oxford University Press that are purchased outright under a perpetual archive model. |
Information Today March 26, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Strategic Approach to Ebook Acquisition To help libraries meet the research needs of their entire institutions and maximize their budgets, ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced a new approach to ebook acquisition |
Information Today September 4, 2007 |
ebrary Ebooks Now Available Through YBP Library Services The two companies have integrated ebrary's platform and its ebooks with the GOBI system, providing an easy and efficient way for libraries to preview, order, and manage ebrary titles along with their other print and digital holdings. |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
ebrary Releases Extended Access Extended Access reduces up-front costs to the library, eliminates speculative purchases of multiple copies, and prevents turn-aways when titles are in use. |
Information Today August 6, 2012 |
ebrary Enhances Strategic Ebook Acquisition Program for Public Libraries To enable public libraries to affordably and strategically meet the nonfiction ebook needs of patrons, ebrary, a ProQuest business, added more than 9,000 new titles from publishers including Bentham Science and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt across acquisition models. |
Information Today July 25, 2011 |
NetLibrary Ebooks Now Integrated on EBSCOhost Platform EBSCO Publishing's collection of more than 300,000 ebook and audiobook titles (formerly from NetLibrary) is now integrated on EBSCOhost. |
Information Today November 18, 2014 |
APA Ebooks Are Now Available From ebrary The American Psychological Association signed an agreement with ebrary (a ProQuest business) to make 250-plus ebooks available through ebrary's platform. |
Information Today November 10, 2015 |
ProQuest Plans New Ebook Acquisition Model ProQuest will pilot a new ebook acquisition model, Access-to-Own, which applies budget money spent on title rentals to perpetual purchases. |
Information Today January 28, 2013 |
Ingram Adds Ebook Lending Model to MyiLibrary Ingram Content Group, Inc. announced that it has added a new content access model to its MyiLibrary econtent platform to provide libraries greater flexibility in ebook lending. |
Information Today August 10, 2009 |
Transaction Publishers Distributes Ebooks Through ebrary The company announced that the new selection from Transaction, which can be seamlessly integrated with Academic Complete or any other ebrary product, features primarily new and recently published titles as well as select classic works by leading international figures in the social sciences. |
Information Today May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition. |
Information Today January 29, 2007 |
ebrary Introduces New Online Ordering Platform ebrary announced the availability of eBOP, its new online ordering platform that lets librarians preview ebooks and other content, purchase and subscribe to individual titles, or create a custom collection on-the-fly. |
Information Today January 31, 2013 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Adds Ebook Library (EBL) to Its Collection ProQuest signed an agreement to acquire Ebook Library from Australia-based Ebooks Corp. Ltd. After the transfer is completed over the next few weeks, Ebook Library will begin its merger with ebrary, acquired by ProQuest in 2011. |
Information Today August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
Information Today August 13, 2012 |
Elsevier Adds Ebooks to ebrary's Academic Complete This marks the first time that these Elsevier titles covering subjects such as mechanical engineering, chemical and process engineering, and civil engineering, as well as environmental energy and alternative energy, have ever been available under a subscription model. |
Information Today October 1, 2013 Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebooks Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. |
Information Today August 6, 2012 |
Expanded Access to eBooks on EBSCOhost Now Available Through GOBI3 Librarians accustomed to selecting and managing their ebook collections through GOBI3 from YBP Library Services, now have additional access options for the more than 320,000 ebook titles from eBooks on EBSCOhost. |
Information Today April 25, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today November 4, 2010 |
ebrary Launches Ebook Ordering System To help libraries more affordably and efficiently acquire, manage, and distribute e-books from leading publishers, ebrary announced it has launched a new ordering system with instant fulfillment and real-time collection management. |
Information Today April 2, 2015 |
OverDrive Marketplace Now Allows Preorders OverDrive introduced a preordering feature in its OverDrive Marketplace for all libraries, schools, and consortia. |
Information Today August 17, 2009 |
ebrary Announces Publisher Half-Off Sale Under the Publisher Half-Off Sale, institutions around the globe can save 50% off list price when they purchase as few as 15 to 25 backlist titles from a single participating publisher through Dec. 15, 2009. |
Information Today June 13, 2011 |
ebrary Announces New Corporate Computing Ebook Collection The collection features more than 210 titles in Certification & Compliance, Databases, Software Engineering, Internet & Web Development, and other subject areas from Wiley, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and other leading publishers. |
Information Today December 2000 |
ebrary Snags Key Investors for Pay-Per-Use Service ebrary, a company founded in February 1999 to establish an online research library, has announced an unprecedented joint investment by three leading publishing and information services companies: Random House, Inc., Pearson, and The McGraw-Hill Companies... |
Information Today April 30, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 39 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets provide libraries with convenient ways to begin or expand their ebook collections with current, reputable content from leading publishers. |
Information Today September 11, 2008 |
Matthews Book Co. to Offer ebrary Digital Content ebrary will distribute ebooks and other authoritative content in medicine and allied health to libraries and other organizations throughout the world. |
Information Today August 11, 2008 |
Serials Solutions to Offer ebrary Titles Through KnowledgeWorks This provider of econtent services and technology has announced that it has become the first ebook provider to become Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certified. |
Information Today January 26, 2012 |
ebrary Ships New Mobile App; Integrates with Baker & Taylor's Title Source 3 With ebrary's new app, researchers can access content on the ebrary platform, including ebooks that their librarians acquire from leading publishers and documents uploaded and integrated by librarians with DASH! or Data Sharing, Fast. |
Information Today December 3, 2009 |
ebrary Launches New Title Preview as SaaS Feature ebrary announced the availability of Title Preview, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) feature that enables publishers, aggregators, corporations, and others to effectively market their digital content and increase leads. |
Information Today April 22, 2013 |
Ingram Expands OASIS Library Platform Through EBL Collaboration Through the alliance with EBL, Ingram will add more than 325,000 EBL ebook titles to the OASIS platform, substantially growing the selection of econtent available to libraries. |
Information Today July 7, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
Information Today February 28, 2013 |
RosettaBooks and ebrary Team Up RosettaBooks, an independent ebook publisher, and ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced three bundled film and fiction perpetual packages for libraries. |
Information Today June 3, 2010 Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
Information Today June 11, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Android App ebrary's Android and iOS apps work with ebooks acquired under all of ebrary's acquisition models including the 75,000 titles available through Academic Complete, the industry's first and only aggregated ebook subscription to be designated as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. |
Information Today July 1, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
Information Today January 13, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Acquires Ebook Pioneer ebrary With the goal to "accelerate the process of serious research," ProQuest has acquired ebrary, a respected, pioneering ebook provider to libraries and corporations. |
Information Today October 9, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Partners With NOOK for Library Lending U.S. libraries can purchase GlowLight e-readers directly from Barnes & Noble to loan to their patrons and offer access to 3M Cloud Library titles on the devices. |
Information Today March 4, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
ebrary Upgrades ebrarian, Secures Distribution Agreement with Amigos Just about 6 weeks after launching ebrarian 2.0 with some pilot library customers, ebrary has delivered on its promise to roll out version 2.1 globally to libraries within the first quarter of this year... |
Information Today June 14, 2012 |
EBSCO's New Medical Ebook Collections EBSCO Publishing released three new medical ebook collections featuring Doody's recommended content. Doody's is an authoritative medical book review service designed to assist medical libraries and institutions with their purchasing decisions. |
Information Today October 17, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry. |
Information Today June 28, 2010 Barbara Quint |
Knock, Knock! OCLC at the Door With WorldCat Direct OCLC, the library vendor run by librarians, continues to push its services and the services of the libraries it serves into a more demanding user environment. |
Information Today August 2004 Paula J. Hane |
Ebooks Corp. Announces New Ebook Lending Platform The company worked closely with the library, technology, and publishing communities to develop EBL, which is said to offer a pioneering approach to lending. |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Get a Cheap Loan Fast ... From Yourself If you're facing a temporary setback and need a short-term solution, a 401(k) loan may not be as bad as some experts think, and a lot better than other alternatives. |
Information Today June 11, 2012 Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material. |
Information Today October 15, 2015 |
BiblioCommons Gains Random House Ebooks Libraries can use this platform to offer their patrons library-centered ebook discovery, borrowing, and reading. |
Information Today July 9, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Information Today January 10, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
ebrary Announces New Technology, Custom Collections, and Partnerships ebrary uses its technology to create online databases of content from leading publishers, which it then licenses to libraries and other institutions. Now, with Isaac, ebrary is taking the next step in allowing any library or other institution to license its technology, not just its content. |
Information Today November 14, 2013 |
ProQuest Enters Automation Beta Phase ProQuest entered a beta test phase to automate ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) holdings updates in its Summon service and 360 discovery and management services. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2010 David Stern |
Ebooks: From Institutional to Consortial Considerations It is not too early for academic libraries to begin considering the implementation issues for consortial purchases and/or leases of ebooks. |