ebrary(R), a leading provider of eContent services and technology,
today announced that Duke University Press has licensed its platform
to host and deliver a new eBook product, the e-Duke Scholarly Books
Collection. The new product is due to be fully released in January
2009, with a pilot program taking place during the 2008 year for a
limited number of library partners. Using the ebrary platform, Duke
will distribute the new collection directly to the academic library
community under a perpetual access model.
"Duke University Press chose the ebrary platform for a number of
reasons: It supports multiple business models including subscription
and perpetual access, offers rich functionality such as InfoTools,
personal bookshelves, and multiple search options, and is highly
affordable and reliable," said Steve Cohn, Director of Duke University
Press. "Additionally, we are able to easily submit our eBooks into the
ebrary platform through the web-ready PDFs supplied to us by the
University of Chicago Press's BiblioVault program. Since ebrary's
technology is available as a hosted service, we do not have to invest
in additional resources to build and maintain the system."
"Duke University Press is at the forefront of university presses
in making its scholarship available electronically, and we are very
excited that it chose our platform to host and deliver its new eBook
product," said Monica Nogueira, ebrary's Global Director of Business
Development. "ebrary has long been aggregating content from leading
publishers and distributing it to libraries under multiple models. We
are extremely pleased that innovative publishers like Duke are now
licensing the same ebrary platform to sell and market their own
content directly to libraries and other markets."
Key features and benefits of the ebrary platform include the
following:
-- Ability to distribute digital content under multiple business
models (subscription, perpetual access, pay-per-use)
-- "Browse-before-buy" capabilities
-- Full text searching and indexing -- No need for complex XML or
meta tagging PDF files
-- Easy PDF submission
-- ebrary InfoTools(TM) provide contextual linking across
multiple online resources
-- The ebrary Reader(TM) delivers eBooks page-by-page online,
eliminating cumbersome document downloads
-- Personal bookshelves
-- Highlighting and annotating
-- Copying and printing with an automatic citation and URL
hyperlink back to the source
In a separate press release issued today, Gibson Library
Connections, a leading supplier of eBooks to the Canadian library
market, announced that it has significantly grown its business since
licensing the ebrary platform. The press release is available at
http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newspdf/ebrary_Gibson_platform.pdf.
For more information about the ebrary platform, please email
platform@ebrary.com.
About Duke University Press
Duke University Press is the publishing arm of Duke University.
The Press publishes cutting-edge books and journals, primarily in the
humanities and interpretive social sciences, as well as books intended
for a general audience. For more information, please visit
www.dukeupress.edu.
About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)
ebrary(R) is a leading provider of eContent services and
technology. The company helps libraries, publishers, and other
organizations disseminate valuable information to end users, while
improving their research and document interaction.
The company has developed a flexible eContent platform, which
customers may use in a number of different, integrated capacities:
ebrary customers may purchase or subscribe to eBooks and other content
under a variety of pricing and access models, and they may license the
ebrary platform to distribute, sell, and market their own content
online. All options are delivered using a customizable interface and
include the ebrary Reader(TM) with InfoTools(TM) software, which
enable integration with other resources to provide an economical and
efficient way to utilize information.
ebrary currently offers a growing selection of more than 120,000
eBooks and other titles from more than 260 leading publishers and
aggregators.
For four consecutive years, ebrary has been named to the EContent
100 list of "companies that matter most" in the digital content
industry.
Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in
Palo Alto, CA.
