Citation
(2003), "Update on ebrary", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 31 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2003.12231aab.032
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Update on ebrary
Update on ebrary
In January, ebrary launched its ebrarian 2.0 product and moved officially into the library market, offering patrons unlimited multiuser access to electronic books and documents. During the year, the company has been aggressively ramping up its efforts, providing enhancements to its service, signing additional publishing partners, marketing solidly to libraries, and securing partnerships with resellers. While ebrary may have gotten off to a rather slow start following its creation in early 1999, it certainly seems to have found its groove this year. August was a busy news month for the company, with several announcements of new content and another partnership.
ebrary now has 13,000 searchable, full-text titles from over 130 academic, trade, and professional publishers. ebrary is not the only company providing electronic books to libraries. netLibrary, now part of OCLC, also competes for the library market, and has a large catalog of e-books (over 42,000 copyrighted titles as of late May) as well as a large customer base. But comparing netLibrary to ebrary, according to Warnock, is like comparing apples and oranges. netLibrary is still mainly working with an ownership model for its e-books, with one title and one user at a time, though it is beginning to test some alternative access and payment models.
Source: Newslink, Issue 35.