For immediate release,
September 9, 2008
For more information, contact
Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations Manager
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dukeupress.edu/library.edukebooks/index.html
Michael McCullough, Sales Manager
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Duke University Press announces the official launch of a new electronic
book product, the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection
Duke University Press is pleased to announce the launch of the new
e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. This collection provides online
access to at least 100 new scholarly books published by Duke University
Press in the humanities and social sciences in a calendar year. By
purchasing the current year's titles in the collection, libraries also
receive access to over 900 Duke University Press backlist books now
available in electronic form.
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection is hosted on the ebrary® platform,
which allows an unlimited number of simultaneous users at a subscribing
institution to access content and use ebrary's searching, navigating,
archiving, and other research tools. The content of the collection is
full-text searchable, like that of other titles to which the institution
has access via ebrary. Additionally, Duke University Press has partnered
with Duke University's Perkins/Bostock Library to provide enhanced MARC
records, including chapter-level metadata.
With the guidance of project consultant and library market specialist
October Ivins, a pilot project was launched in January 2008, allowing a
select group of nineteen partner libraries to provide feedback
concerning such matters as access, pricing, the site license, and vendor
preferences. Ivins comments, "Collaborating with staff at Duke
University Press and Libraries, ebrary, and BiblioVault, as well as with
our pilot partner libraries and book vendors, has been a process filled
with new insights that have improved our product and business model.
Collectively, I feel that we have fulfilled Duke University Press
director Steve Cohn's vision of creating a library-friendly e-book
collection that other university presses and small publishers may use as
a model."
Norm Medeiros, associate librarian of Haverford College, states,
"Haverford, with its partners Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges, entered
into the pilot through the PALINET consortium in order to provide
faculty and students with a collection of high-quality electronic books.
The integration of the e-Duke books into our ebrary channel affords easy
access to the collection. Usage has been strong, indicating that the
titles with their digital advantages are serving our users well."
The business model of the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection builds on
that of the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection, which also evolved
with much collaboration and feedback from the library community. The
e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection features a similar library-friendly
tiered pricing structure based on Carnegie classifications and an
inexpensive print add-on option.
For more information about the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection pilot
project, please visit www.dukeupress.edu/library/edukebooks/index.html
or contact either Library Relations Manager Kimberly Steinle at
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About Duke University Press
Duke University Press publishes approximately 115 books annually and
more than 30 periodicals in a wide range of disciplines within the
humanities and sciences. In addition to the e-Duke Books Scholarly
Collection, the Press offers several other electronic resources
(www.dukeupress.edu/library/ecollections.html).
About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)
ebrary® is a leading provider of e-content services and technology. The
company helps libraries, publishers, and other organizations worldwide
disseminate valuable information to end users while improving their
research and document interaction.
The company has developed a flexible e-content platform, which customers
may use in a number of integrated capacities: ebrary customers may
purchase or subscribe to e-books and other content under a variety of
pricing and access models, and they may license the ebrary platform to
distribute, sell, and market their own content online. All options are
delivered using a customizable interface and include the ebrary
Reader(tm) with InfoTools(tm) software, which enable integration with
other resources to provide an economical and efficient way to utilize
information.
ebrary currently offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 e-books
and other titles from more than 300 leading publishers and aggregators.
® ebrary is the registered trademark and/or service mark of ebrary.
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