Information research solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced an expansion of its publishing agreement with CABI. Under the deal, it will offer its global customer base more than 420 e-books in agriculture, food science, environmental science, veterinary science and related disciplines. The books will be available on the Books@Ovid platform as part of seven collections.
Of the seven collections, the CABI Books Archive Collection, which consists of over 230 books published between 2000 and 2004, is already live on OvidSP. It is available as a one-time only purchase, providing users with unlimited, perpetual access. The other six collections are organised with a subject focus and will be available as annual subscriptions later this summer. These include: CABI Books Archive Collection ; CABI Agriculture Book Collection; CABI Animal and Veterinary Science Book Collection; CABI Environmental Science Book Collection ; CABI Human & Food Science Book Collection; CABI Leisure & Tourism Book Collection ; and CABI Plant Science Book Collection.
In addition to the new books collections, Ovid offers the core applied bioscience databases - CAB Abstracts and CAB Abstracts Archive. It also offers Global Health and Global Health Archive, which are sources for bibliographic information in public health.
The addition of these new CABI books will bring to more than 2,400 the number of books on OvidSP via Books@Ovid. Other publishers with books available via OvidSP include Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Ovid's sister company within Wolters Kluwer Health, Oxford University Press, Springer Science + Business Media, McGraw-Hill and Clinical Publishing.
Books@Ovid seeks to combine premium content with powerful search and discovery technology for a comprehensive, feature-rich information search experience. Natural language searching is expected to make queries quick and easy. Since Books@Ovid is fully integrated with an institution's e-resources, users can link directly to any other content resource referenced in a book. Other key features include an expandable table of contents, back-of-the-book indexing and simple navigation.
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