Digital content services provider Ingram Content companies, US, has announced the launch of a new eBooks cooperative service enabling members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) to offer multi-publisher collections to libraries. The ALPSP eBook Collection (AeBC) consists of over 1,200 titles contributed by specialist society, academic and university press publishers. Many titles have not previously been available in digital format.
The collection's 1,200 titles cover 11 subject areas including education, law, medicine, political science and technology. Institutions may choose the entire core offering or create a custom package of various sub-collections. The AeBC is available as a one-time purchase, with multi-user access delivered exclusively through MyiLibrary, Ingram Digital's next-generation e-content aggregation platform.
The AeBC is available to libraries and other institutions through the extensive network of MyiLibrary distribution partners, which include Swets, the current provider of the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection, Coutts Information Services and ProQuest. The Collection also may be enhanced with any of the 175,000 additional titles already available for purchase through MyiLibrary. With over 5,000 new titles added every month, MyiLibrary claims to be the fastest-growing and most comprehensive online e-content platform on the market today.
Publishers participating in the ALPSP eBook Collection will also benefit from access to Ingram Digital's full range of content solutions including the MyiLibrary platform for individual e-book sales, the CoreSource digital asset management platform and print-on-demand services from Lightning Source.
The AeBC is not available through any other aggregator or platform.
