Sentences with phrase «of ebrary»

Formerly president and general manager of ebrary ®, Kevin Sayar led the company from its conception to a position as a leading ebook provider to libraries worldwide.

The list of ebrary titles includes over 750,000 ebooks through Academic Complete as well as content uploaded by member libraries.

«ebrary was surprised to see such a variation of results in the UK,» said Kevin Sayar, President and General Manager of ebrary, in a press release today.

Not exact matches

Online (and sometimes downloadable) PDF eBooks are available from a number of different library services (for example, netLibrary, ebrary, Ingram MyiLibrary, Dawson, Blackwell).

«Designed using the strengths of the EBL and ebrary platforms, ProQuest Ebook Central will feature a user - centered design that will improve ebook research and management experiences from end to end.

The balance is made up of streamed bundle services including ebrary Academic Complete and EBSCOhost.

Ebook provider ebrary announced this morning that it has now added the Boston Library Consortium to its growing list of library systems that rely on the company to make publishers» titles available for online reading by its member patrons.

The ebrary acquisition was timed to occur on the eve of the ALA midwinter meeting, and this has been duplicated with the EBL acquisition.

ebrary won a government contract a month ago that put it in the unique position of being the only ebook business on the government buyers list.

ProQuest's ebooks businesses — ebrary ® and EBL ™ — are renowned for their breadth of content and flexible models including subscription, perpetual archive (purchase), demand - driven acquisition, and short - term loans.

EBL is part of ProQuest's ebooks area, which also includes ebrary, a company renowned for its inventive acquisition models and robust platform.

And of course eBrary says that their DRM is absolutely necessary to protect the copyright holders, but then you have a platform like EBook Library, where users can download books using Adobe Digital Editions where the document will simply expire after a predetermined amount of time.

Academic Complete was recently named Library Journal «s «Best E-Book Database,» among other accolades and awards, and serves its member libraries and institutions by offering a catalog of more than 80,000 titles which are available for unlimited access by multiple users simultaneously through ebrary's subscription model.

Specifically in reaching out to Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, ebrary is furthering the global reach of digital publishing, as well as helping authors and publishers with their discoverability in finding whole new customer bases.

Kathy Masnik, ebrary director of product management told us, «We are already seeing a shift in the market toward using HTML5 to implement sophisticated ebook products.

With the growth of Android powered devices and the popularity of tablets such as the Kindle Fire and the Nook tablet, whose app marketplaces give Amazon and Barnes and Noble customers a centralized location for finding apps, ebrary's response to the Android market is well - timed and the distributor joins an ever - growing list of companies who are working in both the iOS and Android platforms.

«ebrary possesses an ideal combination of rich understanding of customer needs — reflected in their breadth and depth of e-books and robust technology — and flexibility in trying new models that allow libraries to work more efficiently.»

This not only entails aggregating vast amounts of content but also packaging it in a way that is digestible and makes sense for the researcher,» said Leslie Lees, ebrary's Vice President of Content Development, in a press release.

«We are delighted to make our ebooks available to libraries through ebrary in order to meet the research needs of our end - users,» said Dr. Karin Timme, Publisher at Frank & Timme.

ebrary has instituted a couple of different options for schools and individual teachers who are actively looking for digital content that will align with the standards.

«At this point in time, ebrary is in investigation for how to support both ingestion of EPUB3 content and display of this format.

That said, the DRM issues are a significant barrier that is stopping aggressive adoption of this standard in ebrary's market.

ebrary's Android app allows for online and offline reading, a benefit that more and more companies are working toward in order to give consumers the option of downloading content prior to entering areas of low coverage.

«With the growing demand for digital content, we are committed to offering content in multiple languages,» said Leslie Lees, vice president of content development for ebrary, in a press release.

ebrary is currently working with academic libraries in Germany, but the popularity of ebook lending in the current climate of VAT can easily spark the crossover to public libraries.

«By partnering with ebrary and YBP, we found a program that offers attractive DDA technology, superior content, and integration of members» existing e-book plans with Consortium purchases.

Many of our members subscribe to ebrary's Academic Complete ™ database and purchase essential titles outright,» said Melissa Trevvett, Executive Director at Boston Library Consortium, in a press release.

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Just months after rolling out its newly redesigned search and discovery platform, ProQuest announced January 6 that it has acquired e-book pioneer ebrary, setting the stage for the company's plans to offer greater depth of access to content from a growing variety of sources and media types.

ProQuest and OCLC have announced the launch of a data exchange program that will share metadata across OCLC's Worldcat Local, ProQuest's Summon service, and the full text of ProQuest Central and ebrary e-books, enriching discoverability for users of each of these services.

ProQuest affiliate Bowker, ProQuest e-book business ebrary and Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) uniting to improve the accessibility and utility of Resources for College Libraries (RCL).

«Within ProQuest, Books In Print is used as a key bibliographic component for a variety of services, from Intota Assessment to Syndetic Solutions to building the new ebook platform for ebrary and EBL.

Some of the purveyors of electronic content for libraries (ebrary, MyiLibrary, etc.) already offer individual chapters for sale.