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I n t e g r at e s w i t h e b r a r y Do you have electronic content that is • Easy PDF submission. p r o d u c t s a n d not accessible to your users? Do you • Simple meta-tagging. o t h e r o n l i n e want that information to be accessible • Usage statistics. to other institutions and archived • Ability to customize and integrate with resources according to industry best practices ebrary APIs. and standards? • Reliable and secure. H o s t e d o N The same technology that powers • Available in multiple languages. O u r S e r v e r s ebrary’s e-book products is available as an ASP service or ISIS, standalone or Yours licensed software that runs on your own ebrary “ISIS” Toolkit – A servers. With ebrary’s technology, you modular, flexible, and scalable system that runs on your Reliable can cost-effectively distribute your own digitized materials online and integrate servers, behind your firewall. and secure them with other digital resources • You have complete control and including e-books from ebrary. ownership. • Extends the functionalities of your All ebrary products include rich features “The ebrary platform has existing repositories of PDF files. that enhance the end-user experience enabled us readily to create including our InfoTools™ software. • Deals with multiple metadata dynamic topical sites based standards (or lack thereof). on our own content. We • Customized metadata. specifically like the way ebrary’s ASP Services – a quick • Integrates multiple business models it enables us to integrate and affordable way to easily and supporting workflows. distribute and share your own subject-specific sites • Handles many delivery formats. digital content online. with ebrary’s InfoTools, • Local content and DRM control. • Pain free – we do the work for you. our OPAC, and ebrary’s • Local user management. databases. It is easy for • Integrates with ebrary content, other • Collection management. our staff to upload PDFs, resources in your library and on • User interface customization. though ebrary implements the web. • Automated maintenance and and maintains the • Can be delivered via a single, easy-to- monitoring. databases of PDFs for us.” use interface. • Support for remote collections. • Supports multiple business and Michael Keller, payment models. University Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA Share, Archive and Distribute your own digitized content online

All ebrary products include powerful technology for optimizing the end-user experience such as InfoTools and features for easily finding, managing, and organizing information (see next page).

Who’s using the ebrary platform for their own e-content? • The McGraw-Hill Companies • Blackwell Book Services • American Library Association (ALA) • Special Library Association (SLA) • Stanford University • Cyberlibris • Gibson Library Connections • Duke University Press • Ontario Council of University Libraries • Brigham Young University/Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives • Informa Healthcare • PrioInfo • iGroup • TechKnowledge • The Citadel • Southwestern Oklahoma State University • Tartu University • Kirtas • Jamaica Tourist Board • e-Libro • BRA Virtual eCONTENT (BRAVeCONTENT) • Many others

Left: The ebrary system provides granular usage statistics.

Above right: Stanford University licenses ebrary’s technology to distribute its own special collections as well as ebrary content via a single interface.

Right: Cyberlibris uses ebrary’s technology to distribute content to business schools and corporations throughout Europe and Africa. Enhance Your End-User Experience with ebrary’s powerful technology

W h at s e t s ebrary apart?

ebrary is one of the first e-book content and technology providers, serving the library community for more than a decade.

Based on feedback from our customers, we have developed a powerful system that creates a user experience that integrates with the way in which people find and use information.

With more than 1,700 library customers throughout the world, our interface is generally recognized as the best in the industry.

Top left: QuickView instantly displays documents in your browser – no downloads or installations required!

Middle: With the Unity Reader, you can highlight text in multiple colors with or without moveable notes. The Unity Reader also offers text-to-speech.

Bottom: Notes and highlights are automatically saved on your personal bookshelf and managed through the use of folders. Enhance Your End-User Experience E a s y t o u S e with ebrary’s powerful technology Customizable A v a i l a b l e with all e b r a r y Our products get used! Key Features and Benefits* products Year-over-year, ebrary sees a dramatic • Anytime/anywhere access increase in usage. While recent studies • Integration and word-level interaction show that end-users spend less than with InfoTools (see next page) four minutes on most e-book sites, • Multiple search and navigation options “The most useful end-users spend more than 17.5 minutes • Simple in ebrary! Similarly, while reports show • Advanced feature is the that e-books in general have relatively • Refine by subject low usage, ebrary end-users spend an InfoTools menu, • Find similar average of nearly 40 seconds on any especially the ability given page, proving that our content is • Search document being used. • Search all documents to highlight text • Search history and take notes. • Navigate to search term A choice of viewing technologies and functionality • Navigate page-by-page Our students also • Navigate to highlights and notes ebrary recognizes that there are different like the ability to • Go to page number methods of research and different • Search results by top books automatically store requirements for various users. By offering our customers a choice of • Search results by top chapters all their highlights viewing options, we can help address • Browse these diverse needs. • Text-to-speech and notes on their • Highlight text with or without moveable ebrary provides a number of options for personal bookshelf.” and resizable notes viewing our content at both the customer Marie Wenander, and end-user levels. • Personal bookshelves with folders that store documents and individual notes Acquisitions Librarian, Chalmers University We currently offer the ebrary QuickView • Copy and paste text with of Technology, Reader™, which allows instant viewing automatic citations Göteborg, Sweden in a browser, no installations or plug-ins • Print with automatic citations required. We also offer the ebrary Unity • Transform text to hyperlinks Reader™ and ebrary Plug-in Reader™, which offer greater functionality such as • Zoom and scale printing, copying text, text-to-speech, and ebrary InfoTools™. * Functionality may vary depending on Many of our end-users use QuickView to which ebrary Reader is used. instantly peruse a document, then use the Unity Reader or Plug-in Reader for more in-depth research and functionality. Integrate every document with other digital resources and information on the web

H ow can you o p timize your end-u s e r Multiple e x p erience, increa s e u s a g e , a n d g e t m o r e viewing options value out of your existing resources? optimized for different users and different 1. Optimize your InfoTools™! 4. Use our Blackboard environments. Building Block All ebrary products include InfoTools, a customizable set of utilities that link Single sign-on provides seamless end-users to the online resources of your control of user access from your choice. Many InfoTools features can be Blackboard system, with automatic activated simply by selecting a word or bookshelves on ebrary. phrase of interest with your mouse. ebrary automatically provides a contextual link.

2. Load our MARCs ebrary provides free on-demand MARC records, allowing our e-books to be found and accessed directly through your catalog. On average, ebrary customers achieve a 400% increase in usage after loading MARCs.

3. Integrate further using our APIs ebrary’s APIs allow you to customize our interface and integrate our key features with your own website and workflow. Additionally, our APIs may be used to enable single sign-on access from your own servers and can seamlessly direct end-users to their personal bookshelves.

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