E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced the availability of its 2009 Starter Packs. Now offered in 21 subject areas, ebrary Starter Packs make it easier and more affordable for libraries to purchase high-value, front-list e-books and other titles from publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis.
ebrary Starter Packs include 25 to 60 essential e-books that are not available in any ebrary subscription database. Librarians and other information professionals may purchase Starter Packs in their entirety at a discount, or use them as selection tools to pick and choose individual e-books. The 2009 Starter Packs do not duplicate titles from the packages introduced in 2008, enabling customers to affordably and efficiently build and enhance their e-book collections. Additionally, libraries and other organisations may complement the Starter Packs with individual e-books from ebrary's growing selection of over 81,300 titles available for purchase.
In the past few months, ebrary has added over 6,300 new titles to its purchase offering, with strengths in History & Political Science; Language, Literature, & Linguistics; Life Sciences; Medical; Physical Sciences; and Religion, Philosophy, & Classics. As with other ebrary products, Starter Packs and individual purchased titles offer tools to help end-users quickly find, access, and manage digital information including multiple search options, personal bookshelves, highlighting, annotating, automatic citations, and seamless integration with other ebrary databases and online resources in the library and on the web through ebrary InfoTools.
