ebrary, a ProQuest business, has announced that it is forging ahead with its efforts to support non-English language programmes for customers around the world. The company is launching a new e-book subscription database, ebrary Nordic Collection, as well as recently acquired content from German publishers including Verlag C.H. Beck, W. Bertelsmann Verlag (WBV) and Frank & Timme.
The ebrary's new subscription database, the Nordic Collection, includes more than 1,300 titles from over 30 publishers at launch but will grow to offer over 2,000 e-books. It contains content from, and about, the Nordic Region in Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish.
Contributing publishers include Aarhus University Press, Copenhagen Business School Press, Folkuniversitetets Akademiska Press, Nordic Academic Press, Nordic Council of Ministers' Publishing House, Roskilde Universitetsforlag, Stockholms universitets forlag and University of Wisconsin Press. Libraries may combine this collection with ebrary's flagship subscription database, Academic Complete, to provide full academic coverage, and then strategically apply budget in other models such as patron driven acquisition, short-term loan, and perpetual archive.
Additionally, to add another layer of support for strategic e-book acquisition in libraries worldwide, the new German publishers' scholarly monographs, including those from distinguished publisher Frank & Timme, are all available under a perpetual archive model and through YBP. Frank & Timme provides researchers with a breadth and depth of German-language content with a focus on humanities and social sciences.
