eBooks

We host and distribute over 150,000 eBooks from university presses, academic publishers, and professional publishers alike. We currently partner with 50 academic presses and 8 professional publishers.

Our acquisition models include:

• Individual eProduct Purchase - customer acquires individual eProduct based on eISBN, namely entire eBooks.
• Pick-and-Choose eBook Packages - customer acquires several eProducts at once.
• Subject eBook Packages - customer acquires fixed collection of eProducts based on subject areas at once.
• Publisher eBook Packages - customer acquires fixed collection of eProducts based on subject areas at once.
• UPL eBook Packages - customer acquires complete collection of eProducts based on copyrights year(s) at once.
• Demand Driven Acquisition - customer's patrons have unrestricted access to eProducts on the Platform for one year or multiple year DDA term. When an eProduct is used, it triggers an immediate purchase and converted to ownership by customer.

We guarantee customer support and satisfaction by implementing deferred services to be your right as a customer and our standard as a service provider.

Content

• Metadata uploaded on a weekly basis
• Commitment to produce all titles within a library-approved-upon time after publication date
• Never miss a title with ongoing quality control of metadata and content PDFs

Access

• Access granted to newly uploaded publications on a monthly basis
• Collections created by copyright year derived from three seasons of publishing over a year and a half

Reporting

• Title lists provided three months in advance of publication, including all unlimited use and exclusion (print-only) titles
• User-behavior reports from COUNTER 5 compliance metrics to new data and analytics tools at the title and subject level

eCollection Management

• A DRM-free purchase model with no ongoing fees
• Duplication control
• Delivery of enhanced MARC records and KBART files. Collection targets in OCLC, Alma, and Intota. Full text indexing in EDS, Summon, and Primo