ProQuest completes acquisition of EBL
Last January ProQuest announced a definitive agreement to acquire EBL. Today, they are announcing that the acquisition of EBL has been completed. The details from the press release are below. You...
View ArticleEBL & ebrary integration: a status update interview with Kathy Masnik
Last January, ProQuest announced plans to acquire EBL and merge the service with ebrary. Kari Paulson and Kevin Sayer spoke with me right after the announcement about the acquisition and plans for...
View ArticleOCLC and ProQuest partner to automate eBook collection management
With this new service, libraries can request that ebrary and EBL provide OCLC with holdings data for purchased collections and DDA repositories. See the complete press release below. DUBLIN, Ohio and...
View ArticleProQuest automates ebrary and EBL holdings into Summon and 360 services
Earlier this week, ProQuest announced a partnership with OCLC to automate ebook collection management. Today, they expand that announcement to include Summon and 360. The project is currently in beta...
View ArticleIngram expands eBook profiling on OASIS platform with EBSCO and ProQuest’s...
Ingram Content Group announced two new partnerships for eBooks on their OASIS platform. The first is with ProQuests’s EBL. More than 400,000 EBL eBook titles will be available through Ingram’s OASIS....
View ArticleEBL unveils the new LibCentral, the foundation for an integrated EBL and...
Just received this press release from ProQuest. I’m really excited to see this new platform and take it for a spin. It sounds like it contains what I feel is one of the key components of ebook...
View ArticleFull text of EBL catalog now discoverable in Summon
Great ebook discovery news for users of Summon. Now both ebrary and EBL full text content are indexed in the Summon. I’m amazed at the use stats on my ebook collections that are indexed in discovery...
View ArticleNew content, LibraryThing for Libraries widget added to ebrary
June 16, 2014 – Mountain View, CA –ProQuest has added more than 1,650 ebook titles from renowned publishers Wiley and Wolters Kluwer Health to Academic Complete®, the flagship ebook database from...
View ArticleProQuest announces beta of new ebrary reader, designed for evolving...
June 26, 2014 (Mountain View, CA.)– ProQuest continues to innovate the use of ebooks in research, launching a beta version of its new ebook reader, developed with extensive user input and debuting on...
View ArticleIngram and ProQuest expand eBook collaboration
Nashville, TN and Ann Arbor, MI– Ingram Content Group Inc., and ProQuest LLC today announced an expanded e-book collaboration that benefits libraries worldwide. Earlier this year, the companies teamed...
View ArticleAsk An Aggregator…. Would You?
If you had top executives from 4 academic eBook aggregators in the same room, what would you ask them? Seriously, I need to know. One of the Lively Lunch sessions at the XXX Annual Charleston...
View ArticleEbooks and Academic Libraries: Toward a New Best Practice
Yesterday at the LJ/SLJ eBook Summit I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion of the acquisition models of eBooks for academic libraries. We chatted about business models, workflow issues...
View Articleebrary’s PDA Model is Finally Live
ebrary announced today the launch of the much awaited patron driven acquisition model. It’s been a couple of years in the making, received considerable testing, and was grown from librarian demand...
View ArticleCharleston Conference – eBook Archiving
Yesterday, I joined a panel of publishers, aggregators, and archiving agencies to discuss the issue of eBook archiving. Â I had to set the stage for libraries, which was quite easy – we are in fear of...
View ArticleYBP and EBL Partner for First Demand-Driven Approval Plan
YBP Library Services and Ebook Library (EBL) have announce that they have combined their unique strengths to create the first demand-driven approval plans. With this announcement, followed by...
View ArticleInterview with David Swords, Editor of Patron Driven Acquisitions: History...
Earlier this week I had a chance to interview David Swords, VP of Sales and Marketing for EBL. David is also the Editor of a new DeGruyter/Saur title, Patron Driven Acquistions: History and Best...
View ArticleProQuest to acquire EBL, ebrary and EBL services to merge
ProQuest has done it again. Just two years after the acquisition of ebrary, they announced today plans to acquire EBL. EBL, a global ebook aggregator, was founded in 2004 and offers over 300,000...
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Interview with Kari Paulson, President of EBL and Kevin Sayar, Senior VP of...
Sayar and Paulson discuss acquisition plans during the ALAMW conference in Seattle. Last week, ProQuest announced a definitive agreement to acquire EBL. I had a chance to interview two of the primary...
View ArticleeBook updates and must reads from ALAMW Conference
I attended the American Library Association MidWinter Conference in Seattle, Washington January 26 -29th. Â While there, I was able to speak with several eBook companies about new features and...
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ProQuest’s mission to keep up with the high and growing demand for...
According to a press release, ProQuest recently surveyed academic librarians about their needs regarding non-English language content. The results demonstrate a strong interest in making...
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