Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that Edward Elgar Publishing has signed an agreement to make all of its 2300 eBooks on Elgaronline available to order directly via SwetsWise. Edward Elgar Publishing is an international publisher of academic books and journals in economics, finance, business and management, law, environment, public and social policy.
Swets' online information management and procurement platform provides customers with a single, one-stop shop from which to browse over 1 million eBooks, from close to 50 providers and aggregators, making it the largest collection of its kind in the industry.
SwetsWise's eBook service makes it easy for librarians and information professionals to quickly locate the eBooks they need. Through one interface they can compare the pricing and purchase models of differing vendors and select the policies to suit their budget. Popular acquisition models include: Pick & choose in perpetuity; Subject collections in perpetuity; Patron driven collections through aggregators in perpetuity; and Annual subscription collections.
