E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that Gibson Library Connections, which has licensed its e-publishing services and technology since 2005, has signed a major contract with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) that will provide millions of dollars in revenues to participating publishers over the three-year contract term. The CRKN licence further secures Gibson's position as the leading provider and aggregator of e-books and other authoritative digital content to the Canadian library community.
Under terms of the agreement CRKN, a partnership of 67 Canadian universities serving more than 900,000 end-users, will license Gibson's Electronic Library Publishers Collection of more than 8,000 titles in the social sciences and humanities. The titles have been contributed by 47 Canadian publishers, including University of Toronto Press, Dundurn Group, and McGill-Queen's University Press.
Available under a simultaneous, multi-user access model, the collection will be delivered via Gibson's Canadian Electronic Library powered and hosted by ebrary. The new collection will also be locally hosted by the Ontario Council of Universities' Scholars Portal using ISIS, ebrary's standalone, licensed e-publishing system.
ebrary seeks to help libraries, publishers and other organisations disseminate information to end users, while improving end user research and document interaction. In a recent announcement, the company joined forces with US-based Perseus Books Group to make thousands of digital titles available on the ebrary platform to libraries worldwide through Perseus' new innovative Constellation service. ebrary has secured partnerships with more than 300 of the world's leading publishers of scholarly, STM, trade, and reference content.
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