The EBRARY Platform
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One eContent platform. Many ways to use it. Subscribe, Purchase or Customize Share, Archive & Distribute Integrate THE EBRARY PLatFORM Our eContent Your eContent eBooks, reports, journals, Theses, dissertations, images, journals, sheet music, and more eBooks – anything in PDF Subscribe Purchase Customize Share Archive Distribute SULAIR Select Collections SUL EBRARY COLLECTIONS Select Collections TABLE OF CONTENTS Infotools All ebrary Collections CONTRIBUTORS Byron Hoyt Sheet Music (Browse) INTRODUCTION Immigration Commision Reports (Dillingham) Contents BUSINESS: A USER’S GUIDE Women and Child Wage Earners in the U.S. CSLI Linguistics and Philosophy BEST PRACTICE SUL Books in the Public Domain MANAGEMENT CHECKLISTS Medieval and Modern Thought Text Project ACTIONLISTS MANAGEMENT LIBRARY BUSINESS THINKERS AND MANA DICTIONARY WORLD BUSINESS ALMANAC Highlights Notes BUSINESS INFORMATION SOURC INDEX CREDITS InfoTools Integrates Define Explain Locate multiple online Translate Search Document... resources Search All Documents... Search Web Search Catalog with one Highlight Add to Bookshelf customizable Copy Text... Copy Bookmark interface. Print... Print Again Toggle Automenu Preferences... Help About ebrary Reader... EASY TO USE. Subscribe, Purchase AFFORDABLE. or Customize your ALW ay S AVAILABLE. eBook selection NO CHECK-OUTS. Un I Q U E S U B SC R I B E T O G R OWI ng E B O O K D ataba S E S W I T H SIMULtanEOUS, MULTI-USER ACCESS. RESEARCH TOOLS. ACADEMIC DATABASES Academic Complete includes all academic databases listed below. FREE MARCS. # of # of Subject Titles* Subject Titles* Business & Economics 6,300 Language, Literature 3,400 & Linguistics “ebrary’s content is Computers & IT 2,800 Law, International Relations 3,800 multidisciplinary and Education 2,300 & Public Policy Engineering & Technology 3,700 supports our expanding Life Sciences 2,000 (includes Biotechnolgy, History & Political Science 4,800 Agriculture, and (also includes a bonus selection faculty and curriculum. Environmental Studies) of historical maps) Medical 1,300 I am impressed by the Humanities 1,600 (includes Music, Theater, Dance, Nursing & Allied Health 1,600 large number of titles Film, Media, Communcation, Art, and Architecture) Physical Sciences 1,400 from leading academic Interdisciplinary & Area Studies 2,900 Psychology & Social Work 2,000 publishers.” (includes Asian, Ethnic, Native American, Gender, and Gay & Religion, Philosophy & Classics 2,200 Lesbian Studies) Jim Dooley, Head, Sociology & Anthropology 2,000 Collection Services, University of California, Merced, USA OTHER DATABASES # of Subject Titles* D&B International Business 7,100 Reports™ Datamonitor Industry Reports™ 10,700 Online Sheet Music 9,000 Public Library Complete 9,400 SME (Society of Manufacturing 4,400 Engineers) Source™ * Estimated title count as of May 2007 Subscribe, Purchase or Customize your eBook selection P U R CH A S E I N DIVIDU A L E B O O K S W I T H Y OU R CHOICE OF SI ng L E - O R CORPORATE DATABASES MULT I-USE R A C C E S S FOR MOST TITLES. Business: Engineering: # of # of ebrary offers a growing selection of Subject Titles* Subject Titles* more than 46,600* eBooks available for purchase! Leadership & Management 1,010 Engineering & Technology 2,430 • The vast majority of our subscription Sales & Marketing 750 Aerospace 450 titles are also available for purchase. Accounting 170 Biotechnology, Bioengineering 300 • Choose “purchase only” titles from & Agriculture publishers such as Yale University E-Commerce & 220 Online Marketing Chemical Engineering 380 Press, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Elsevier. These titles are not available Civil & Construction 150 execuBooks 320 in any other ebrary collection. Engineering Finance 200 Electrical & Power Engineering 120 Financial Markets 210 eBook ordering made easy! & Investment Electronic Engineering 310 & Semiconductors Purchase titles directly through ebrary or Global Business 400 through print book vendors. The ebrary Environmental & Coastal 320 Ordering Platform (eBOP) is integrated Personnel Management & 450 Engineering Organizational Behavior with YBP’s GOBI™ and Blackwell’s Food Science & Technology 120 Collection Manager™. Sales & Business Skills 380 Industrial, Manufacturing & 70 Operational Systems Technology: Materials Science & Plastics 210 C US T O M I Z E A COLLEC T IO N O F # of Mechanics & Mechanical 120 Subject Titles* Engineering SU B SC R IP T IO N an D PU R CH A SED t I T L E S . Computers & Information 2,740 Petroleum, Mining & 100 Technology Geological Sciences With ebrary’s flexible platform, you can Database Design 220 select individual eBooks and choose a Pharmaceutical & 430 & Management payment model for each title to meet Biological Sciences your needs and budget requirements. Networking 420 Operating Systems 150 Our content seamlessly integrates with multiple online resources as well as any Programming 280 documents you own and submit into the ebrary platform. And, information is delivered to end-users using a single, library-branded interface. * Estimated title count as of May 2007 Int E grat E S Y OU R C O nt E nt Share, Archive & WITH Ebrary’s E B O O K S an D Distribute your own MULTIPLE O N LI N E RESOURCES. eContent online N O DEVELOPME nt L ICE N S E T H E E brary P L at FO R M F O R Y OU R OW N E C O nt E nt an D B E N EFI T F R O M T H E COSTS. S A M E R I C H F U N C T IO na LI ty I N C L U D E D I N O U R EBOOK PRODUCTS. S U B MI T any • Any time, anywhere access. DOCUME nt S • Integration with other library resources and information on the web. IN PDF. • Page-by-page, online delivery of eBooks with the ebrary Reader™. • Multiple search options including simple, advanced, full-text, and key word. • Personal bookshelves automatically save links to highlights, notes, and bookmarks. RELI ab L E an D • Copying and printing text with automatic citations and URL hyperlinks back to SECURE. the source. • Usage statistics. • Hosted solution eliminates “The ebrary platform overhead costs. has enabled us readily • Easy PDF submission. to create dynamic • Simple meta-tagging. topical sites based • Support and training tools. on our own content. • Ability to customize and further integrate with ebrary APIs. We specifically like the way it enables us to integrate subject- Who’s using the ebrary platform for their specific sites with own eContent? ebrary’s InfoTools, our • The McGraw-Hill Companies OPAC, and ebrary’s • Blackwell Book Services databases. It is • American Library Association easy for our staff to (ALA) upload PDFs, though • Special Library Association ebrary implements (SLA) and maintains the • Stanford University databases of PDFs • Cyberlibris for us.” • Gibson Library Connections • e-Libro, and more Michael Keller, University Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA The ebrary platform provides granular usage statistics. Above: Stanford University licenses the ebrary platform to distribute its own special collections as well as ebrary databases via a single interface. Right: Cyberlibris uses the ebrary platform to distribute content to business schools and corporations throughout Europe. Integrate your digital resources and information on the web H O W C an Y O U O P T I M I Z E Y OU R E N D-USE R E X P E R IE N C E , I N C R E A S E U S ag E , an D G E T MO R E V A L U E O U T O F Y OU R EXISTING RESOURCES? 1. Optimize your InfoTools™! All ebrary products include InfoTools, a customizable set of utilities that link end-users to the online resources of your choice. Many InfoTools features can be activated simply by selecting words or phrases of interest with your mouse. ebrary automatically provides a contextual link. InfoTools Define Explain Locate Translate Search Document... Search All Documents... Search Web Search Catalog Highlight Add to Bookshelf Copy Text... Copy Bookmark Print... Print Again Toggle Automenu Preferences... Help About ebrary Reader... ENHANCES T H E E N D-USE R EXPERIENCE. In C R E A S E S USAGE. E X T E N D S T H E VALUE OF InfoTools provides a rich end-user experience created by you! Y OU R OPA C Customize InfoTools to search almost any online resource in your library and on the an D E X I S T I ng web. End-users never lose their place of reference. RESOURCES. Examples of how you can customize your InfoTools: • Search library catalog/ • Search learning • Search maps E VE ry OPAC (digital and management system • Search web (Google, WO R D I S A print holdings) • Search content Yahoo, etc.) CO nt EX T U A L • Search databases management system • Search video (Hoovers, • Search dictionaries • Search audio LI N K W I T H ProQuest, etc.) • Search biographies • Search news INFOTOOLS. • Search institutional • Search encyclopedias repository Standard InfoTools features include the following: “ebrary integrates • Search current document or all ebrary documents with our OPAC, and • Translate text to and from different languages • Highlight text and automatically store on your personal bookshelf most of our users • Copy text with automatic citation and URL hyperlink back to the source find it that way… • Print pages with automatic citation and URL back to the source Additionally, students 2. Load our MARCs can search across ebrary provides free MARC records, allowing our eBooks to be found and accessed other resources in directly through your catalog. By loading ebrary MARCs, you can significantly increase usage! the library and on the web without 3. Deeply integrate using our APIs losing their place ebrary’s APIs allow you to customize our interface and integrate our key features with your own website and workflow.