ebrary

ebrary (the "e" is lower case) was an online digital library which held over 100,000 scholarly e-books in 2014.[1] It was available in many academic libraries and provided a set of online database collections that combined scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also included sheet music (9,000 titles) and government documents. Additionally, ebrary offered a service called "DASH!" for customers to distribute their own PDF content online.

ebrary
ProducerProQuest (United States)
History1999 - 2015
Access
CostSubscription
Links
Websitehttp://www.ebrary.com

ebrary had 2,700 subscribers (mostly libraries) at the end of 2009. Users gained access through a subscribing library and could view, search, copy, and print documents from their computers.

ebrary was founded in 1999 by friends Christopher Warnock and Kevin Sayar.[2] It was headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and was acquired by ProQuest in 2011.[3] In 2015, ProQuest replaced ebrary with ProQuest Ebook Central. Before it was replaced, it held over 900,000 documents [4]

Reception

Staffordshire University in England has supplied some texts for ebrary and encourages use by students and faculty. The University has been pleased with its effectiveness. A study of usage there reports, "The ability for students and researchers to search across the full content of 30,000 e‐books in one 'go' and then capture that information quickly and easily is also very valuable."[5] At Hacettepe University, a large school in Turkey, usage has proven valuable because of the limited library collection.[6]

More generally Anne Morris and Panos Balatsoukas report that other universities also have studied usage and consider ebrary a valuable resource.[7]

Notes
  1. "ebrary's Academic Complete tops 100,000 titles". 22 January 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2016 – via ProQuest.
  2. "ebrary About: Company". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  3. "ProQuest Ebook Central enters beta." Smart Libraries Newsletter, vol. 35, no. 8, Aug. 2015, p. 6. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A426444231/ITOF?u=tamp44898&sid=ITOF&xid=09f847f2. Accessed 22 Nov. 2020.
  4. "ebrary Home Page". ebrary. Archived from the original on 3 March 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  5. David Parkes, "E-books from ebrary at Staffordshire University: a case study." Program 41.3 (2007): 253-261.
  6. Tonta, Yaşar, Umut Al, and İrem Soydal. "Analysis of E-book Use: The Case of ebrary." Proceedings ELPUB2010 – Conference on Electronic Publishing June 2010 – Helsinki, Finland (2010): 315-329. online
  7. Anne Morris and Panos Balatsoukas. "Usability evaluation of Ebrary and Overdrive e-book online systems." Libraries without walls 6 (2006): 211-223.

Journal articles
  • Fialkoff, Francine. "The Book Is Not Dead," Library Journal, (June 15, 2009) Vol. 134 Issue 11
  • Godwin-Jones, Robert. "E-Books and the Tablet PC," Language, Learning & Technology Vol. 7, 2003
  • Mullarkey, Marty. "Ebrary and two international e-Book surveys." The Acquisitions Librarian 19.3-4 (2008): 213-230.
  • Qiuping, Zhang, and Yuan Hao. "Integration of Ebrary Electronic Books to OPAC System." Library Journal 1 (2008): 007.
  • Raisinghani, Mahesh S. "Wireless Library Aids Student Productivity," T H E Journal Vol. 30, 2002
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