E-books and research technology provider ebrary, US, a ProQuest business, has released the 2011 Global Student E-book Survey, according to which the demand for e-book accessibility, especially on mobile devices, is growing significantly. Sixty percent of respondents indicated that downloading e-books onto mobile devices is 'very important' – a 16 percent increase over results from a similar survey that ebrary sponsored in 2008.
In ebrary's recent Download Survey, librarians marked the iPad as more important to providing offline access than desktops and laptops.
To meet researchers' evolving needs, ebrary has launched a new app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Available on the App Store, the free new app seeks to give researchers an optimised way to experience authoritative content – both online and offline – from multiple sources. With this app, researchers can access content on the ebrary platform, including e-books that their librarians acquire from leading publishers and documents uploaded and integrated by librarians with DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast). Additionally, researchers can import their own personal research – outside of the ebrary platform – through the app itself.
To make it easier to use ebrary – with or without the app – ebrary also announced the ability for researchers to sign-in with their Facebook usernames and passwords.
ebrary will demonstrate its new mobile app at the ongoing ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 20-23 in Dallas, Texas, in the ProQuest booth (#2007).
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