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RCN Publishing joins Portico

RCN Publishing has signed an agreement with Portico to preserve its e-journal content. Through the agreement, institutions participating in Portico’s E-Journal Preservation Service will be assured continued access to RCN Publishing title content for their nurses, students and academics for generations to come.

RCN Publishing is the latest publisher to join the continually growing group of participants that strive to ensure ongoing access to essential research for future generations of students, researchers and scholars. Speaking of the agreement, Rhonda Oliver, managing director said, “RCN Publishing journals provide some of the most authoritative information and research on nursing that is available globally. By partnering with Portico, we are thrilled to be able to ensure that this content will always be accessible, for whoever may need it, whatever the future of publishing holds.”

RCN Publishing publishes 10 core journals including Cancer Nursing Practice, Emergency Nurse, Learning Disability Practice, Mental Health Practice, Nursing Management, Nurse Researcher and Nursing Standard. In total, the journals comprise more than 18,000 articles, dating from 1996 onwards. As Rhonda further commented, “The significant costs incurred in digital curation means very few publishers or libraries are able to provide their own perpetual archive of digital content. We trust that Portico will be able to provide access to our content in perpetuity, so that new generations will be able to draw upon the knowledge that has shaped the global nursing profession.”

Stephanie Orphan, director of publisher relations for Portico added, “We are very pleased that RCN Publishing has joined Portico. With the addition of RCN’s titles, more than 17,500 e-journals along with more than 210,000 e-books and 72 digitized historical collections are committed to the archive for preservation. RCN is joining publishers from around the globe that support long term access to scholarly materials. We look forward to working with them.”

 

The Max Planck Society buys the entire Springer Book Archives

The Max Planck Society, a highly reputed research institution, has bought the entire Springer Book Archives (SBA) consisting of 110,000 individual titles. The purchase gives staff in 82 Max Planck institutes in Germany direct online access to the retro-digitized books via the SpringerLink platform (link.springer.com).

The Springer Book Archives contain the digital copies of nearly all the books published by Springer from 1842, when the publishing house was founded, up to and including 2004. The works are divided into 11 collections in English (around 56,000 titles) and five in German (around 54,000 titles). Licenses are available for each of these individual packages. The Springer Book Archives give today’s researchers access to key academic work from the past two centuries, and researchers can use these e-books on a wide variety of electronic devices.

The Springer Book Archives contain around 50 different imprints, although scientific works published by Springer Verlag account for the majority of publications. In addition, there are also titles by the longstanding engineering publisher Vieweg (now SpringerVieweg), the economics book portfolio Gabler (now SpringerGabler), the U.S. IT publisher Apress, and the U.S. science publisher Copernicus.

“The Springer Book Archives clearly demonstrate once again that today’s scientists stand on the shoulders of giants. Our digitized titles include publications by prestigious researchers and a number of Nobel laureates,” commented Focko van Berckelaer, Vice President Library Sales, Springer.  “All these works were out of print for a long time and are now available again online in the Springer Book Archives. I am delighted that the researchers and post-doctorate students at the Max Planck institutes now access this basic knowledge.”

“The Springer Book Archives books had only been available a short time before the Max Planck institutes signaled their interest in acquiring these titles,” explained Dr Ralf Schimmer, head of Scientific Information Provision at the Max Planck Digital Library. “We would like to congratulate Springer on implementing this fantastic retro-digitization project, and we are pleased to be able to make this historical body of work available to researchers in the Max Planck Society in today’s digital working environment.”

Popke Huizinga appointed director of IOS Press

Mr. Popke Huizinga has been appointed as director of IOS Press as of the 1st of February. The announcement was made by Dr. Einar Fredriksson during Mr. Huizinga’s 20th anniversary celebration on February 4th.

Dr. Fredriksson, who founded IOS Press in 1987, said: “Popke joined us in 1994, when the company was going through a difficult period. He has helped us build IOS Press into a successful academic publisher. His contributions in team building, sales and administration are significant and of lasting value.”

Mr. Huizinga, formerly Deputy Director, is touched by the trust given to him through his new appointment. “I am confident that with the over forty years of experience of Einar Fredriksson in the publishing business, combined with the good help of so many qualified colleagues and external partners around me, I will be able to fulfill all the duties and responsibilities accompanied with such an appointment.”

Dr. Fredriksson will stay involved in the day to day business of IOS Press.

McGraw-Hill Education Acquires Area9, Developer of Adaptive Learning Technologies for K-12 and Higher Education

McGraw-Hill Education today announced that it has acquired Area9 Aps, an adaptive learning company, which McGraw-Hill Education has partnered with to deliver personalized learning experiences through technology since 2007. In January 2013, McGraw-Hill Education purchased a 20 percent equity stake in Area9; the agreement announced today covers the 80 percent of the equity in Area9 that McGraw-Hill Education did not already own. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition marks the culmination of a longstanding relationship between the two companies and solidifies McGraw-Hill Education’s position as the leader in adaptive learning, a method of education that helps drive student performance by making learning more personalized and efficient. McGraw-Hill LearnSmart®, the result of the first collaboration between McGraw-Hill Education and Area9, immediately became the leading adaptive study tool in higher education upon its release in 2009. At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2013, McGraw-Hill Education expanded the number of products built on the LearnSmart technology with the release of the LearnSmart Advantage™ suite of adaptive learning products, which included SmartBook™, the first-ever adaptive e-book for higher education.

In 2013, LearnSmart surpassed the following milestones as the leading adaptive learning tool in higher education:

3 million total student users since LearnSmart’s launch in 2009, and almost 1.5 million users in 2013 alone
More than 2 billion questions answered by students using LearnSmart
User growth of 45 percent in 2013 compared to 2012

“The new McGraw-Hill Education is passionate about reimagining learning, and we believe that delivering personalized experiences through adaptive technology is a key ingredient to teaching and learning success,” said Buzz Waterhouse, president and CEO of McGraw-Hill Education. “Area9 has been instrumental to our success in becoming the leader in adaptive learning. This acquisition will allow us to accelerate our development of integrated teaching and learning experiences that help generate results for students and instructors – and which we see as a central element in the future of education in the U.S. and across the world.”

Area9 is the second major acquisition that McGraw-Hill Education has recently made in the area of adaptive learning. In 2013, McGraw-Hill Education acquired the ALEKS Corporation, a developer of adaptive learning technology for K-12 and higher education targeted toward the subjects of math and chemistry. “These moves are key examples of what we’re doing to strengthen our digital capabilities and provide our customers with the most comprehensive solutions in all of the markets we serve,” added Waterhouse. “Through our organic growth, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships, we are committed to establishing McGraw-Hill Education as the world’s leading digital learning company.”

The LearnSmart Advantage suite of adaptive learning products continually assesses students’ knowledge and skill levels to design personalized study paths that help students improve in the areas where they need to improve the most. By allowing students to focus their outside-of-class study time on the topics and concepts that are most challenging to them, McGraw-Hill Education’s adaptive solutions have been shown to help students study more efficiently, develop greater proficiency, and earn better grades.

Founded in 2006 by Dr. Ulrik Juul Christensen, Area9 develops technologies that fix the gaps in helping people learn with the goal of finding a better way of delivering training and education. As part of the acquisition, Dr. Christensen will join McGraw-Hill Education’s executive leadership team as Senior Fellow of Digital Learning.

“Personalization is the holy grail of education,” said Dr. Christensen. “Through Area9’s long relationship with McGraw-Hill Education, we’ve developed technologies that have changed the industry and improved lives by making learning more effective and efficient. As we become part of McGraw-Hill Education, I look forward to continuing our mission to reimagine teaching and learning through technology.”

Thomson Reuters Cortellis Data Fusion Addresses Big Data Challenges by Speeding Access to Critical Pharmaceutical Content

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of CortellisTM Data Fusion, an addition to the Thomson Reuters Cortellis suite, the industry’s most comprehensive information solution for drug discovery and development. Cortellis Data Fusion utilizes linked data technologies – frameworks that allow content to be shared across applications and enterprise or community boundaries – connecting users with data from internal proprietary systems as well as third-party resources to address Big Data challenges.

Big Data and the Needs of the Pharma Industry, a Thomson Reuters whitepaper surveying IT leaders within pharma, found that access to external content is the industry’s top challenge around managing the ever-growing Big Data environment. Cortellis Data Fusion provides users with seamless access to internal and external content and the ability to aggregate, integrate and analyze large volumes of varied data through a single, user-friendly interface.

“Cortellis Data Fusion gives us the ability to tie together information about entities like diseases and genes and the connections between them. We can do this from Cortellis data, from third party data, from a client’s internal data or from all of these at the same time. Our analytics enable the client to then explore these connections and identify unexpected associations, leading to new discoveries”,” said Chris Bouton, general manager, Thomson Reuters Life Sciences. “Driving novel insights for our clients is at the very core of our mission and these technologies help to enable that.”

The faster and deeper insight from Cortellis Data Fusion is possible because content is parsed into manageable, actionable Little Data. There are inherent, intuitive data analytic links that enable users to discover unexpected associations, generate hypotheses and share novel ideas. The solution also employs enterprise information security architecture ensuring proprietary data and analyses remain safe.

Opportunities created by Cortellis Data Fusion are a result of the recent acquisition by Thomson Reuters of Entagen, an industry-leader in providing semantic search/navigation software and custom development services to large pharma, biotech and laboratory automation companies.

Learn more about Cortellis Data Fusion.

Wolters Kluwer Health Transitions the Journal Medicine to Fully Open Access, Broad-Based Biomedical Title in 2015

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, today announced that Medicine, one of the most respected and frequently cited journals in general medicine, will transition to an open access publication from a subscription-based model. Medicine will provide authors with a distinctive new service offering continuous publication of original research across a broad spectrum of medical scientific disciplines and sub-specialties.

As an open access title, Medicine will continue to provide authors with an established, trusted platform for the publication of their work. In addition, Medicine will provide author tools for ongoing promotion of published articles and data on article usage. To ensure the ongoing quality of Medicine’s content, the peer-review process will only accept content that is scientifically, technically and ethically sound, and in compliance with standard reporting guidelines. Medicine is indexed in MEDLINE® with an Impact Factor of 4.233 based on the latest Journal Citation Reports® (ranking 18th in General & Internal Medicine specialty).

“Providing our partners, authors, and readers with greater access and distribution options to peer-reviewed content is essential to how medical content is consumed by practitioners today. Open access publishing strategies are part of this channel mix,” said Jayne Marks, Vice President Publishing, Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research.

Medicine will continue to offer subscribers a complete volume of content for 2014, while accepting submissions under the new open access model. The journal will transition from subscription to a fully open access title in 2015.

Open access articles in Medicine will be freely available to read, download, and share from the time of publication. Articles will be published under the terms of the Creative Commons License 4.0, which enables authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work. Medicine will use article payment charges (APCs), applied to accepted manuscripts only. The APC covers the cost of the publication process, including peer-reviewing, editing, publishing, maintaining, and archiving.

AIP Publishing and Publishing Technology go-live with next generation Scitation

AIP Publishing LLC and Publishing Technology have launched the next generation of AIP’s Scitation site, serving hundreds of thousands of scientists around the world.

Launched on a new custom platform developed using Publishing Technology’s pub2web hosting solution, AIP Publishing and seven AIP Member Societies are now housing nearly a million articles from 47 journals, as well as conference proceedings, standards and blogs. The site also hosts Physics Today, AIP’s flagship magazine.

Content on the new platform is semantically enriched using the Scitation thesaurus of 7,500 terms, which can be searched and browsed across Scitation’s publishers and content types enabling smarter discoverability. Moreover, concept boosting, a unique search feature of the pub2web platform driven by semantic tagging, means that subject homepages are bumped to the top of search results, directing Scitation users to information hubs for accessing associated content and creating unique resource collections.

“Our focus has always been to provide world-class service to our readers, authors, librarians, and Member Society publishing partners, and so we are thrilled to announce that the next-generation Scitation site is up and running on Publishing Technology’s pub2web platform,” said John Haynes, CEO of AIP Publishing, LLC.  “pub2web not only provides the full spectrum of core e-journal functionality that today’s users expect, but delivers several new and exciting content-discovery tools built on our investment in semantic technology.”

Further features of the site are designed to improve user experience, including article-level metrics and comment functionality, social network integration, and search and browse options by author and affiliation. Extensive semantic enrichment will enable article pages to suggest related content, and cross-publication author page generation offers new opportunities for author promotion and visibility.

Michael Cairns, Chief Operating Officer of Publishing Technology’s Online Division, said: “Given that AIP Publishing formerly hosted content itself, entrusting the platform to Publishing Technology was a real measure of its belief in us, and we were determined to deliver a top quality product. I’m pleased to say that we have succeeded in this aim by delivering the new Scitation, a premier research destination providing authors, readers and librarians with personalized discovery routes into content.”

New open access funding pilot for Austria

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Academic Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich), the Austrian Central Library for Physics at the University of Vienna and IOP Publishing (IOP) have today announced a new pilot project that will provide advance funding for Austrian researchers to publish on a hybrid open access basis in IOP’s subscription journals and which will offset that funding against subscription and licence fees paid by the Austrian Academic Consortium for access to IOP’s journals.

The FWF will cover article publication charges for all authors (who meet the qualifying criteria specified by the Austrian Science Fund) when they choose to publish with IOP. The pilot project will run for three years starting at the beginning of 2014. It also encompasses a three-year agreement for access to IOP’s journals for participating members of the Austrian Academic Consortium. It brings two such funding agreements – for open access publication and for access to a portfolio of journals – together for the first time.

Falk Reckling, responsible for Scholarly Communication at FWF, says: “Open Access is the future of scholarly publishing. But models and experiments are needed to migrate the current subscription system into open access. Following the Open Access recommendations of Science Europe, the FWF is happy to present together with the Austrian Academic Consortium and IOP one of the first pilots that applies country-based reductions in journal subscriptions, in line with increases in author- or institution-pays contributions for Open Access.”

Kerstin Stieg, Coordinating Director of the Central Head Office of the Austrian Academic Consortium, says: “This pilot project is outstanding and exemplary in terms of bringing together subscription agreements and Open Access and enabling their costs to be managed at a national level. With both the FWF and IOP we have found competent, reliable and strong business partners in the implementation of this ground breaking pilot. We hope and trust that this agreement will lead the way to further projects in uniting subscription agreements and open access.”

Brigitte Kromp, Head of the Austrian Central Library for Physics at the University of Vienna, says: “As the University of Vienna is one of the key players in the open access movement in Austria we are very interested in developing sustainable open access models. We hope to get reliable figures for the calculation of open access fees, to manage costs nationally and find economically feasible future business models by this project. Knowing IOP for many years as a reliable partner, we considered the publisher to be best qualified for this experiment.”

Steven Hall, Managing Director of IOP Publishing, said: “We are very pleased to be working on this pilot project at a national level with our Austrian colleagues. We are aware of a growing demand from research funders and universities to look more closely at the relationship between open access publication charges and journal subscription and licence fees and believe that this initiative will provide all the partners with valuable data on how it might be made to work, at a global and local level. We hope that this will provide an incentive for more Austrian researchers to publish in our journals.”

Member institutions of the Austrian Academic Consortium are invited to join this agreement any time.

McGraw-Hill Education Agrees to Acquire Engrade, Instructional Improvement Platform for K-12 Education

McGraw-Hill Education, a leading digital learning company, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Engrade, the developer of an open digital platform for K-12 education that unifies the data, curriculum and tools that educators use every day to drive student achievement and inform district educational strategy. The move enables McGraw-Hill Educationto meet U.S. K-12 schools’ growing demand for platforms that bring together the delivery of digital instructional content and assessments and the analysis of student information and performance data. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close imminently, were not disclosed.

The acquisition is one of several that McGraw-Hill Education has made since it was acquired by funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO) inMarch 2013. In June 2013, the company acquired the ALEKS Corporation, a developer of adaptive learning technology for K-12 and higher education.

“As states and districts continue to search for ways to improve the effectiveness of teaching and personalized instruction, the need for an open, centralized technology platform that can provide actionable data and manage instructional interactions with students will only continue to grow,” said Buzz Waterhouse, president and CEO of McGraw-Hill Education. “By combining our content and assessment with Engrade’s platform and tools in an integration-friendly ecosystem, we will help schools bring together the elements of digital education in a cohesive, learner-focused system that advances student achievement. We’re also excited to welcome Engrade’s technology team, which is one of the best in education.”

As part of McGraw-Hill Education’s commitment to open standards, the company plans to grow Engrade’s platform under its current business model while also deeply integrating Engrade with McGraw-Hill Education’s own digital platforms.

“Education in the U.S. and around the world has been undergoing rapid change in recent years that will only accelerate in the next decade,” added Zach Posner, CEO of Engrade. “There’s no better company for us to join forces with than McGraw-Hill Education; combining their 125 years of educational expertise with Engrade’s personalized learning platform empowers schools to offer each student a personalized educational experience. With the Engrade platform, students can log in once and use multiple tools and content sources, and teachers and administrators can track a student’s progress in all of those tools from a single dashboard.”

McGraw-Hill Education will maintain Engrade’s current offices in Santa Monica, Calif.

Access to Research initiative begins two year pilot

Walk-in access to high quality academic research available in UK public libraries

Students, independent researchers and small businesses can now access many of the world’s best academic papers across science, technology, medicine and other disciplines through their local libraries. This is the result of a unique collaboration between librarians and publishers, who have made their journal content available for free to UK libraries under a new initiative,Access to Research.

Access to Research will provide licensed online access to over 1.5 million journal articles and conference proceedings through library terminals. With 8,400 journals included in the initiative at the moment, this will make content in the fields of Health and Biological Sciences (20%), Social Sciences (18%) and Engineering (14%) available to the public for the first time. Users will also be able to read a wide variety of articles in the fields of Art & Architecture, Business, Environmental Science, History, Journalism, Languages, Politics, Film, Philosophy and Religion, Mathematics and Physics.

Access to Research has been launched under the leadership of the Publishers Licensing Society in response to one of the mainrecommendations of the Finch Group, a committee convened by the UK government, to explore how access to publicly funded research could be expanded.

Publishers are making their journal content available free of charge and those participating so far are: ALPSP, Bloomsbury Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Dove Press, Elsevier, Emerald, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Portland Press, SAGE Publications, Science Reviews 2000 Ltd., Springer, Taylor & Francis, Versita,  Wiley,Wolters Kluwer Health.

Public libraries stand to benefit from this enhancement to their services and it is hoped that Access to Research will encourage more customers to visit their local library.

ProQuest, a global provider of digital content and technologies, has generously provided, pro bono, their widely-usedSummon® service to improve discoverability of this online journal content.

The pilot is open to all UK local authorities to participate, with over half of all local authorities already in the process of signing up their libraries to the initiative.

The technology to support the service has been road tested in 2013 by 250 public libraries within 10 local authorities (Buckinghamshire, Calderdale, East Sussex, Kent, Lewisham, Newcastle, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex, Windsor & Maidenhead).

The service will now be rolled out as a two-year pilot, commencing February 2014. During the pilot interest and uptake will be closely monitored to see how the service could be developed in the future.

Universities and Science Minister David Willetts said:  “This country’s excellent science and research base is world-renowned and one of our greatest assets. With less than one per cent of the global population we produce over six per cent of global articles. But this still means the vast majority of global research is not subject to the UK’s open access policy.

“The Publishers Licensing Society’s excellent ‘Access to Research’ programme will now give the public free access to research around the world through our public libraries. This will connect people, including students and small businesses, to a wealth of global knowledge – maximising its impact and value.”

Richard Mollet, CEO, The Publishers Association, said:  “The Access to Research initiative demonstrates publishers’ strong commitment to developing open access in the UK, and in taking forward the recommendations of the Finch review. This will be a hugely valuable pilot for publishers, libraries and their patrons. We look forward to monitoring the progress and update of this pilot and to seeing the collected data at the end of the two year period.”

Sarah Faulder, CEO, Publishers Licensing Society, said:  “We have been impressed by the tremendous support of both publishers and librarians for this project. We are delighted to have been able to put in place a framework which enables ever wider access for the general public to a wealth of academic research.”

Janene Cox, Society of Chief Librarians, added: “This important initiative further cements the library as a local space for learning for the entire community. We are thrilled that we have reached this milestone with publishers and we look forward to rolling this out across all of our libraries.”

Audrey McCulloch, of the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers, said: “Many ALPSP members are excited about this initiative which will bring research from 8,400 academic journals to an even wider audience.  This initiative should support innovation and allow many more interested readers to keep up to date with the latest research.”

Phill Hall, ProQuest Technologies said:“We are delighted to be involved in the Access to Research project. Our Summon service provides the perfect platform for reinforcing the pivotal role of libraries; facilitating meaningful research by helping users discover the most relevant content, and improving information literacy.”

ProQuest and OCLC continue collaboration to offer improved discovery, access to popular full-text content

More than 320 million records from 88 collections in the award-winning ProQuest® Central database are now discoverable, and the full text associated with those records is now accessible to mutual subscribers through OCLC WorldCat Discovery Services.

The new discovery experience is possible through a data exchange agreement signed in 2013 by OCLC and ProQuest to enhance library discovery for users of WorldCat Discovery Services and the ProQuest Central full-text database. The program shares metadata from some of the world’s most-widely used library collections, enriching the content and creating connections for users of both ProQuest Central and WorldCat Discovery.

“ProQuest’s focus is on supporting libraries by developing seamless research experiences for their users,” said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO. “We’re working within ProQuest to make that happen and also working with organizations outside of ProQuest. This collaboration with OCLC is a great example.”

“OCLC member libraries that subscribe to these popular ProQuest databases can now easily access the full-text of this content through the discovery service of their choice,” said Skip Prichard, OCLC President and CEO. “OCLC and ProQuest are committed to finding new ways to collaborate to benefit libraries and their users.”

In November 2013, OCLC and ProQuest announced a collaboration to facilitate automation of the process to keep e-book holdings from ebrary and EBL – Ebook Library up to date in WorldCat and library catalogs, and offers current links to library users for easy access to those titles.

ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary, full-text database available in the market today. The agreement between ProQuest and OCLC will provide access to the primary ProQuest Central database and 88 of its most widely-used databases. With journal, newspaper and scholarly content in more than 160 subjects, it’s regarded as the broadest single research resource in the world. Now, libraries can choose to access their ProQuest Central subscription content through WorldCat Discovery Services as well as the ProQuest Summon service.

WorldCat Discovery Services is a new suite of cloud-based applications that brings the FirstSearch and WorldCat Local services together. Set to launch in March, the new suite will provide library users increased access to more than 1.3 billion records representing the most widely used e-content collections in libraries.

WorldCat Discovery Services will be available to all 18,000 OCLC FirstSearch subscribers in March. FirstSearch will operate in parallel during a year-long transition so libraries can choose when to migrate to the new service. WorldCat Local libraries will also move to the WorldCat Discovery over the next 18 months. The transition will begin in March with a beta period when WorldCat Local subscribers can begin using the service

eBook Religion Collection Now Available from EBSCO Information Services

EBSCO Information Services has released a new e-book collection designed to meet the content needs of students and scholars in their study of religion. eBook Religion Collection is subscription package of e-books featuring more than 4,100 titles from over 150 trusted publishers.

The unique collection covers a broad range of religious subjects including philosophy, ethics, history of religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and religious texts. Content in the collection help readers explore religious beliefs, faith, cultural systems and world views.

eBook Religion Collection is offered on an annual subscription basis with unlimited access to the content and optional downloading. Each title is offered with unlimited users allowing more users access to each title in the collection. As with all e-books available from EBSCO, eBook Religion Collection is integrated and works seamlessly with all EBSCOhost® content. Users will be able to search the collection on its own or side-by-side with other EBSCOhost databases bringing together e-books, periodicals and other content for a seamless search experience.

EBSCO eBooks™ offers more than 500,000 e-books and audiobooks. EBSCO proactively acquires new content in critical areas, based on the dynamic needs of libraries. Accessing the EBSCOhost platform for e-books and audiobooks saves librarians training time and adds a well-known search platform to the end user’s experience. Allowing end users to search for e-books and audiobooks along with their EBSCOhost database content improves the discoverability of library collections. Lowering the cost for libraries makes the decision to focus on or add to e-book and audiobook collections easier and more cost-effective.

EBSCO eBooks are provided with no markups and no fees and can be ordered through the EBSCOhost® Collection Manager, YBP’s GOBI3 or Ingram’s OASIS, allowing libraries more freedom to make purchasing decisions. More information about EBSCO eBooks is available at: www.ebscohost.com/ebooks.

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