4,500 hundred titles in this new German-language collection featuring several prominent publishers.  Subscription pricing available. More from the press release: ebrary Launches Deutsche Sammlung – Company releases German-language e-book subscription database covering multiple disciplines Palo Alto, CA – March 12, 2013 – ebrary®, a ProQuest business, today announced a new German-language e-book subscription database for [...]

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IPSWICH, Mass. — February 19, 2013 — Librarians have a convenient way to begin or expand their e-book collection with 23 new eBook Subjects Sets from EBSCO Publishing. The eBook Subject Sets are prepackaged sets of titles from leading publishers in specific, high-interest topic areas chosen to meet libraries’ needs while simplifying collection development. This [...]

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New collections from EBSCO announced earlier this week.  More info from the press release below. EngineeringCore™ and ITCore™ E-book Subscription Collections Provide Access to Thousands of E-book Titles for Learning and Research IPSWICH, Mass. — February 5, 2013 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released EngineeringCore™ and ITCore™ , two e-book subscription collections designed to support [...]

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EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released the eBook Public Library Collection™   which includes over 25,000 general reference e-book titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature and science & technology. According to the press release: The collection will provide libraries with a substantial selection in the areas of self-help, [...]

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I’m a big fan of Douglas County Libraries.  They are innovative trail blazers.  This press release from December 27, 2012 is another example of their innovation.  They are partnering with Impelsys to create an acquisitions dashboard.  This sounds similar to the dashboards available at other vendors, where a publisher can send all title metadata and [...]

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From an EBSCO Press Release on November 01, 2012 EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) continues its growth of e-book products with two new grade appropriate e-book subscription collections for the school market. eBook K-8 Collection™ and eBook High School Collection™ are available for schools looking to find full-text e-books specifically catered to their needs. The collections align [...]

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To honor open access week, I’ll be highlighting a different open access eBook platform each day. The purpose is to create awareness of various open access ebook collections. If you have collections to suggest, please let me know. Today’s post is about Knowledge Unlatched. Knowledge Unlatched is not yet an eBook collection, but an initiative [...]

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To honor open access week, I’ll be highlighting a different open access eBook platform each day. The purpose is to create awareness of various open access ebook collections. If you have collections to suggest, please let me know. Today’s post is about CLACSO.  This collection was brought to my attention by Dominique Babini.  She said, [...]

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To honor open access week, I’ll be highlighting a different open access eBook platform each day.  The purpose is to create awareness of various open access ebook collections.   If you have collections to suggest, please let me know. The Directory of Open Access Books – The DOAB – is a service of the OAPEN Foundation. [...]

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To honor open access week, I’ll be highlighting a different open access eBook platform each day.  The purpose is to create awareness of various open access ebook collections.   If you have collections to suggest, please let me know. I first learned about SciELO Books (Scientific Electronic Library Online) when I traveled to Brazil last month [...]

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