E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that PrioInfo, its long-time valued reseller in Scandinavia, has licensed its technology to aggregate e-books and other digital content from Scandinavian publishers and distribute it directly to local libraries and other institutional markets.
PrioInfo recently launched its new service on ebrary's hosted e-publishing system and will migrate to ebrary's standalone licensed product, which will run on PrioInfo's own servers, by summer. The company has already signed publishing partners including Studentlitteratur, a leading Scandinavian publisher that publishes a wide range of subject areas for all levels of the higher education and professional communities.
PrioInfo is a leading content and services provider in Scandinavia. The company supplies information products and services in electronic formats to research and knowledge intensive organisations. Urkund, a plagiarism prevention system developed by PrioInfo, offers a completely automated system, designed to deal with the problem of plagiarism. Through a combination of quality information products from leading international suppliers, customer service and support the company creates added values for customers.