Ebrary
Encyclopedia
Ebrary is an online digital library
of full texts of over 70,000 scholarly e-book
s. It is available at many academic libraries and provides a set of online database collections that combine scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also includes sheet music (9,000 titles) and government documents. Additionally, ebrary offers content services—DASH! (do-it-yourself), software as a service (SaaS) and licensed—for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online.
Ebrary contains a suite of reference tools and a rich collection that includes books, journals, magazines, maps, and other publications. Illustrations are included. Users gain access through a subscribing library and can browse, view, search, copy, and print documents from their computers. Ebrary's aggregated collections cover academic disciplines including business and economics, computers, technology and engineering, humanities, life and physical science, and social and behavioral sciences.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, ebrary was privately held until it was acquired by ProQuest
in 2011. It had 2,700 subscribers (mostly libraries) at the end of 2009.
Allen W. McKiel, the director of libraries at Northeastern State University, looked at the response of 550 libraries worldwide using ebrary. He found three broad patterns. First, librarians are deciding about optimizing access to content that is relevant to their own institutions. Second, e-book collections and the research opportunites that they provide are poorly understood and underutilized by many of the faculty and students. Third, more librarians are participating in the distribution of econtent. McKiel predicted that academic libraries will play an increasing role in epublication for their institutions.
Digital library
A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks...
of full texts of over 70,000 scholarly e-book
E-book
An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital...
s. It is available at many academic libraries and provides a set of online database collections that combine scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also includes sheet music (9,000 titles) and government documents. Additionally, ebrary offers content services—DASH! (do-it-yourself), software as a service (SaaS) and licensed—for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online.
Ebrary contains a suite of reference tools and a rich collection that includes books, journals, magazines, maps, and other publications. Illustrations are included. Users gain access through a subscribing library and can browse, view, search, copy, and print documents from their computers. Ebrary's aggregated collections cover academic disciplines including business and economics, computers, technology and engineering, humanities, life and physical science, and social and behavioral sciences.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, ebrary was privately held until it was acquired by ProQuest
ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based electronic publisher and microfilm publisher.It provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types. Its content is estimated at 125 billion digital pages...
in 2011. It had 2,700 subscribers (mostly libraries) at the end of 2009.
Allen W. McKiel, the director of libraries at Northeastern State University, looked at the response of 550 libraries worldwide using ebrary. He found three broad patterns. First, librarians are deciding about optimizing access to content that is relevant to their own institutions. Second, e-book collections and the research opportunites that they provide are poorly understood and underutilized by many of the faculty and students. Third, more librarians are participating in the distribution of econtent. McKiel predicted that academic libraries will play an increasing role in epublication for their institutions.