Publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced that it will launch its own ebook platform, Palgrave Connect (www.palgraveconnect.com), in January 2009. The move is in response to the growing demand for digital resources.
Developed in association with Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Palgrave Macmillan's sister company, Palgrave Connect seeks to offer libraries a flexible approach to building an ebook collection in the Humanities, Business and Social Sciences. From January, more than 4000 ebooks will be available in collections organised by year of publication and by discipline. The 2009 collections will be updated quarterly with newly published titles. Both 2009 and backlist collections will be available for purchase on a one-time fee perpetual access basis.
Palgrave Connect is powered by NPG's online platform, nature.com, alongside the Palgrave Macmillan journals content. Palgrave Connect incorporates NPG's full range of library services, including institutional usage reports and promotional tools. MARC records will be available for all collections. Hosting both ebooks and journals on the same platform is seen as an important first step towards offering integrated collections of content in the future.
