North Carolina's innovative consortium NC LIVE is teaming with ProQuest and Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, to expand its offering of ProQuest® databases along with the renowned Summon® discovery service to each of its more than 200 member libraries. This unprecedented six-year agreement with NC LIVE will both expand the digital content available to North Carolinians and make it easier to discover.
Since 1998, NC LIVE has provided North Carolina libraries equitable access to a core selection of digital content and services, saving the state hundreds of millions and helping libraries support education, enhance economic development, and improve patrons' quality of life. NC LIVE and ProQuest first partnered in 2014 to provide member libraries with curated, comprehensive databases, including ProQuest Central, which claims to be the world's largest aggregated collection of full-text academic content, and a vast selection of ebooks via the Academic Complete® and Public Library Complete™ collections.
This new agreement focuses on improving the patron discovery experience and expanding the digital content NC LIVE provides. Each NC LIVE member library can implement its own instance of the Summon discovery service. Summon enables patrons to find their entire library's print and electronic collections through a single search box. Ex Libris will implement and support the Summon system across North Carolina, enabling even the smallest libraries to offer a state-of-the-art user experience.
Additional ProQuest content is also being made available to libraries through this agreement. Students will have access to resources like the SIRS® Discoverer and eLibrary® Curriculum Edition research products, which support homework assignments; ProQuest Research Companion will address new demands for digital information literacy; and all North Carolina citizens will benefit from the Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection, 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 county newspapers.
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