E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that it has joined forces with health science information provider Matthews Book Company to distribute e-books and other authoritative content in medicine and allied health to libraries and other organisations across the globe.
A growing selection of more than 11,000 e-books and other authoritative titles in health, medicine, and related subject areas will be available through Matthews on September 15, 2008. Titles will be available for purchase under a single or multi-user access model. Sample titles include Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing (3rd Edition), by Rose Kearney-Nunnery (F. A. Davis Company, 2004); Mayo Clinic Concise Textbook of Medicine, by Thomas M. Habermann (Informa Healthcare, 2007); Molecular Targeting in Oncology, by Beverly A. Teicher (Humana Press, 2008); Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, by Marie A. Chisholm-Burns (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2007); Reliability Technology, Human Error, and Quality in Health Care, by B. S. Dhillon (C R C Press LLC, 2008); and Successful Scientific Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences, by Janice R. Matthews (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
ebrary seeks to help libraries, publishers and other organisations disseminate information to end users, while improving end user research and document interaction. The company recently enhanced its growing selection of more than 170,000 titles with e-books and other authoritative materials from more than 14 new publishing partners. ebrary has secured partnerships with more than 300 of the world's leading publishers of scholarly, STM, trade, and reference content.
