New eBook content for ebrary – nearly 300 AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) titles to be available very soon. More from the press release: ebrary®, a ProQuest business and leading provider of e-books and research technology, today announced that it has partnered with AIAA, the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global [...]

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This is a very interesting development in eBook access from Local Knowledge Online (LKO) and ebrary. It’s not for libraries, but for individuals.  LKO is offering individuals a subscription plan to ebrary’s business collections.  Monthly subscription prices range from $9.99 to $25.00 depending on the collection (single-user license only).  Quarterly and annual subscription rates are [...]

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ebrary is announcing the availability of  the 2011 Global Student E-book Survey.  Full results (downloadable) will be available in January.  Those of you attending the Charleston Conference next week can get a sneak peek at the results during a session on Friday (details below).  Here is more from the press release: ebrary Surveys Suggest Students’ [...]

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Great news from ebrary about the ability to download eBook content to devices.  ebrary conducted a study early this year about downloading capabilities.  The results of this study discovered that 92% of libraries found offline access to be more or equally important to online access.  Matt Barnes, VP of Marketing discussed the survey results during [...]

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This is from an ebrary press release dated 8/22/2011:  ebrary ® announced new publishing partners University of Arizona Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Wayne State University Press, Michigan State University Press, Mercer University Press, The University of Arkansas Press, Kassel University Press, Leuven University Press, The [...]

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ebrary developed an open access collection of e-books related to the events of September 11th at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/september11/. Libraries can include that link on their homepage and enable anyone with access to an Internet connection to download and read any or all of 15 full-text e-books throughout September.  The selection includes We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories [...]

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On Sunday I met with Matt Barnes, Vice President of Marketing, for ebrary. Matt and I discussed ebrary’s new patron driven acquisition model, searching ebrary content through the ProQuest interface, and the results of an ebrary mobility study on the need for downloadable ebooks.  Matt shares a few of the results, which are not yet [...]

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ALA is a great time to connect with librarians and publishers for audio interviews.  Today I met with Dan Stasiewski at OverDrive to discuss the new OverDrive WIN platform features and Rick Lumsden from Encyclopaedia Britannica to discuss the new Britannica eBook platform.  Tomorrow I’ll be with Matt Barnes of ebrary to discuss the new [...]

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The news many have awaited since ProQuest’s acquisition of ebrary – ebrary content is now discoverable through ProQuest databases.  In fact, the databases are interlinked. The Academic Complete collection will launch first, with additional titles available by fall. More from the press release:  Just over five months after acquiring e-book innovator ebrary®, ProQuest launched technology [...]

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This was announced on June 8th, but I’ve just received the press release.  ebrary now has 210 titles available in a corporate computing subscription database. More from the press release: ebrary®, a leading provider of e-books and research technology to libraries worldwide, today announced the availability of its new Corporate Computing subscription database. The growing [...]

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