Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, is set to launch a new integrated eBook and digital content platform for other academic publishers, called University Publishing Online. Beginning October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide libraries with eBooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide.
Boydell & Brewer, Liverpool University Press, the Mathematical Association of America, and Foundation Books, based in India, are the first publishers to join the new site. Announcements of further partners will be made in coming weeks.
The new platform is based on the ‘Cambridge Books Online’ eBook delivery platform.
Customers will now be able to access important academic works and research from various publishers, in one place.
Cambridge Books Online offers access to thousands of front and backlist PDF titles in a fully searchable environment. The site includes dynamic content and features, with frequent addition of new titles. It also features comprehensive library support tools, including downloadable machine-readable cataloguing (MARC) records, usage reports plus access and authentication methods.
Libraries can acquire a wide range of subject-based collections or can choose to make an individually customised selection of titles from the 12,000 currently on offer. Institutions in over 30 countries have purchased eBooks from Cambridge Books Online, and new customers are being added each week.
The Cambridge Books Online platform already incorporates a powerful faceted-search tool across all scholarly books and journals issued by Cambridge. Two purchasing plans for University Publishing Online will be available, each involving multi-user concurrent access and minimal digital rights management (DRM): customers will be able to buy content once and then own continuing access, or subscribe annually with a subscribe-to-buy facility.
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