In January we announced that an agreement had been signed for the acquisition of EBL by ProQuest. We are pleased to say that on May 13, 2013, this acquisition was completed. EBL is now a ProQuest business.
I have joined ProQuest as the Vice President and General Manager of the combined ebook business unit. Happily, the team who worked so successfully with me at EBL will also be joining ProQuest. Over the next 18 months, we will work to combine the best of both ebrary and EBL, enjoying a stronger foundation from which to build.
In the meantime, we will continue to develop and support the EBL platform, including the upcoming release of the new LibCentral administrative portal. Meanwhile, please continue to work directly with your EBL representatives, purchase EBL content though your existing workflows, and use the same EBL support channels. Until further notice, we will deliver invoices as we’ve done in the past.
As President of EBL my goal was to bring value to academic libraries. Our models and products have been developed collaboratively over many years, based on invaluable ideas from a talented cast of librarians and publishers. These ideas and values will continue to drive our work under ProQuest, but with even more tools to bring you additional value. We will ask for your ideas as we integrate EBL and ebrary, and we will see to it that you receive regular updates on our thinking and developments. To ensure you receive these updates, please click here.
For me, the growth of EBL from a small company in Western Australia to a respected contributor to the evolving role of monographs in libraries around the world has been a defining experience. Thank you for your interest, goodwill, and support. My coworkers and I look forward to working with you in this new capacity and will continue to do our best on your behalf.
We very much look forward to working with you and if you have any queries, please email info@eblib.com.
Understanding the importance of customer choice, we have signed a new partnership agreement with Ingram to offer our EBL titles (currently more than 325,000 ebooks) through the Ingram OASIS content platform.
The collaboration will enable libraries to discover and purchase EBL ebooks on the Ingram OASIS content platform, offering integrated print and electronic acquisition workflows and consolidated invoicing. This service will be available to libraries worldwide.
Kari Paulson, EBL President:
“As libraries develop ebook programs and services, it’s important for librarians to be able to seamlessly acquire the ebooks their patrons want. Through our work with Ingram, we are offering greater discoverability of our content and further supporting acquisition workflows.”
We are working with Ingram to roll out this new service as soon as possible and will make further announcements when the service goes live. Please contact us at info@eblib.com in the meantime if you would like to discuss setting up acquisition services through Ingram.
Click here to read the full press release.
OCLC is now supporting Demand-driven Acquisition (DDA) with their WorldCat Knowledge Base and EBL is the first provider supplying data to this service, with ebrary to follow soon.
Our automated data feed to OCLC updates their Knowledge Base, streamlining workflows around DDA. Your library can receive these discovery records to expose more ebooks accessible for your users. OCLC will help their customers to implement their DDA program.
OCLC’s service enables you to:
- Set up automated feeds to your WorldCat knowledge base
- Maintain WorldCat holdings
- Receive discovery records
- Expose titles in WorldCat Local
- Manage ILL options
- Track purchases in Acquisitions
For more information about the above, download the OCLC information sheet.
Due to the upcoming Easter holiday period, our EBL offices will be closed on the following days:
London, UK office:
Closed on Friday 29th March and Monday 1st April 2013
Melbourne and Perth, Australia offices:
Closed on Friday 29th March and Monday 1st April 2013
Portland, US office:
Closed on Monday 1st April 2013
For any queries, please email info@eblib.com and we will happily help.
We have been working hard to expand our non-English content on EBL. Along with our German partner, Schweitzer, we have been building an impressive collection of German language titles. EBL now has nearly 26,000 German language titles, from 65 publishers.
In February alone we added 5,716 new German titles – 2,400 from the publisher Springer Fachmedien, and a large number of titles from Walter de Gruyter and Peter Lang also went live.
To view a full list of our German content publishers, please click here.
For any queries, please contact us and we will happily help.
