If you are investigating e-books, it's worth knowing that the
Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium have contracts with
ProQuest and Ebrary in which any library can participate, even if
they are not SUPC members. There are some presentations about the
SUPC arrangements at http://supc.procureweb.ac.uk/page4_10.jsp
At Aston University, we currently have books from Safari, netLibrary
and Oxford Reference Online and have recently bought a number of
e-book titles from Wiley.
Best wishes,
Frances
At 14:40 28/07/2006, Sheila Scott wrote:
>I recently asked the same question as Kay Finch and below is a summary of
>some of the replies received back.
>Best wishes
>Sheila
>
>Staffordshire University : Ebrary, Safari and Netlibrary
>
>Sheffield Hallam University : Netlibrary, EBL (through Dawson's)
>
>University of Portsmouth : Ebrary, Netlibrary and evaluating Dawson's
>
>Cambridge Colleges (Group) : Netlibrary and currently investigating Coutts,
>Ebrary, Taylor & Francis, Oxford Scholarship Online, Knovel, Dawsons,
>Cambridge Companions Online
>
>University of Wolverhampton : Safari (for computing books)
>
>Napier University : NetLibrary, Safari, may consider Ebrary, Dawson's or
>Coutts in the future
>
>University of Sussex : Oxford Scholarship Online but considering MyiLibrary
>from Coutts
>
>4 others replied that they were not currently using ebook suppliers but
>would be interested in replies whilst Chris Armstrong from Information
>Automation Limited suggested Xreferplus, Ovid, Questia and ABC-Clio in
>addition to the above suggestions
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Aston University
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