for Academic Libraries Ian Hames, VP International Sales

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for Academic LibrariesIan Hames, VP
International Sales
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Agenda

• Objective Company overview
• Business models and products
• Subscription
• Purchase
• E-publishing
• Key features and benefits
• Our partner in India

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Company Overview

• eBook and technology provider
• More than 1,400 library customers worldwide,
  serving over 12.5 million end-users
• Aggregating eBooks from gt300 publishers
• Founded in 1999
• Headquartered in Palo Alto, USA

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Today is our 10th Anniversary!
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Business Models and Products

• Subscribe to pre-selected or custom eBook
  databases
• Purchase individual titles
• Mix and match subscription and purchased titles
• License ebrarys technology for your own digital
  content

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Pre-selected Subscription Databases

• Academic Complete
• Business Economics
• Community College
• Computers IT
• Education
• Engineering Technology
• History Political Science
• Humanities
• Interdisciplinary Area Studies
• Language, Literature Linguistics
• Law, International Relations Public Policy
• Life Sciences
• Medical
• Nursing Allied Health
• Physical Sciences
• Psychology Social Work
• Religion, Philosophy Classics
• Sociology Anthropology

• Simultaneous, multi-user access
• Affordable, FTE-based pricing
• Grow at no additional cost throughout the
  subscription term gt2,500 titles per year
• Seamlessly integrate with OPACs and other online
  resources

• Publisher Databases
• Datamonitor
• DB International Business Reports
• IGI Global InfoSci-Books
• Other Databases
• Community College
• Public Library Complete
• Online Sheet Music

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Purchase (Perpetual Access)

• Growing selection of gt 100,000 titles
• Many not available in any other ebrary product
• Front-list from many leading publishers
• Span all academic subject areas
• Starter Packs, publisher-specific collections and
  other discounted packages available
• No check-out period
• Buy access for any number of users
• List price for single-user
• 150 of list price for unlimited multi-user
• Order directly through
• Seamlessly integrate with subscription databases
  and your own content in the ebrary system

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Some of our publisher partners

• New York University Press (NYU Press)
• Oxford University Press (UK and USA)
• Palgrave Macmillan (US and UK)
• Princeton University Press
• Random House, Inc.
• Rutgers University Press
• SAGE Publications
• Springer
• Stanford University Press
• Taylor Francis Group
• Temple University Press
• University of California Press
• University of Chicago Press
• University of Iowa Press
• University of Nebraska Press
• University of Toronto Press
• Walter de Gruyter
• The World Bank

• Blackwell Publishing
• Brookings Institution Press
• Cambridge University Press
• Columbia University Press
• Continuum
• Cornell University Press
• Elsevier
• Facts on File
• Greenwood Press
• Guilford Press
• Harvard University Press
• Humana Press
• John Wiley Sons
• Johns Hopkins University Press
• Manchester University Press
• McGill-Queens University Press
• McGraw-Hill Book Companies
• MIT Press
• National Academies Press

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ebrarys E-publishing System

• Distribution platform for theses and
  dissertations, yearbooks, newsletters, and other
  digitization projects
• Available as a hosted service or licensed
  software toolkit that runs on your servers,
  behind your firewall
• PDF-based
• A choice of Readers

• Integrates with other ebrary products, library
  resources, and information on the web
• Automatically builds databases out of PDF files
• Available in
• Delivered using the same easy-to-use and familiar
  ebrary interface
• Customers include Ontario Council of University
  Libraries (OCUL), BYU, Stanford, The Citadel,
  SWOSU, Tartu University, Duke University etc.

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Key Features and Benefits

• Choice of ebrary Readers provides all of
  ebrarys rich functionality. Plug-in or
  Java-based
• ebrary QuickView for instant document viewing in
  a browser. No downloads or installations
  required!
• ebrary InfoTools customizable set of utilities
  that provides contextual linking and integrate
  multiple resources
• 24x7 access including Remote
• Multiple search and navigation options

• Chapter ranking of search results
• Personal bookshelves automatically store links
  to highlights, annotations, and more. Organize
  with customizable folders
• Highlighting and annotating
• Transform text to hyperlinks
• Automatic citations with URL hyperlinks back to
  the source
• Text-to-speech
• Free on-demand MARC records
• Reporting tools and usage statistics
• Comprehensive support and training

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Copying paste with automatic citations
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Text-to-speech - Prof. Tareens wish
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Customization

• Define searches online dictionaries
• Explain searches online encyclopedias
• Translate translates selected phrases,
  sentences and paragraphs into different languages
  including Hindi
• Search Library searches the librarys card
  catalog and/or other databases to which the
  library subscribes or owns
• Search Web searches Internet search engines
• And more

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Thank you!

• New Delhi
• Kolkata
• Ahmedabad
• Mumbai
• Bangalore
• balani_at_igroupnet.com