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750+ publishers, 1,500 imprints
Flexible models with guaranteed access
Overview
What if you could offer an ebook experience that’s intuitive for you and your patrons? What if you could manage all aspects of your collection — discovery, selection, acquisition, administration, and reporting — all on one platform? And what if that platform provided access to more than a million ebooks, with 100,000 new titles added each year? It’s all possible with Ebook Central from ProQuest.
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Usability Enhancements
Enhanced “book detail” page to help students pinpoint the exact content they need for research or classwork — at both the chapter and subchapter level — and access it online or download it for later use.
Clear table-of-contents-level prompts for reading online or downloading, plus DRM-free chapters with file names that reflect the chapter title.
More intuitive features, including a simplified login process and informational dialog boxes that provide helpful hints.
Syndetics Unbound Integration
Libraries who subscribe to Academic Complete®, ProQuest’s flagship ebook resource, can now provide an enhanced user experience for their patrons in the Ebook Central® platform, thanks to a new integration with the Syndetics Unbound™ service.
Access-to-Own (ATO)
ATO is an exclusive usage-based acquisition model that helps libraries offer a diverse selection of ebooks while investing in owned content that delivers better ROI, plus:
- Increased availability to frontlist content with access to titles previously embargoed from short-term loan.
- Greater affordability because costs are only incurred on loans and loan fees are applied to the price of the book.
Explore our multiple acquisition models — which can be used in any combination to meet your content needs, enhance workflows and bring value to your library. You have the power to build a collection that delivers the ebooks your patrons need at an affordable price.
Subscribe for Unlimited Content
Enjoy simultaneous, multi-user access and continued collection growth at no additional cost.
Develop Your Collection with Perpetual Purchase
Buy individual titles and give your users continued access to essential content. Title-by-title perpetual purchases are easier than ever with one-click and shopping cart options.
Usage-Based Collection Development with Demand-Driven Acquisition
Offer immediate access to a wide pool of ebooks — but only pay for the individual titles after a free browsing period.
World-Renowned Publishers
We partner with the world’s leading publishers, including the largest number of university presses.
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Book Vendors and Resellers
We partner with book vendors such as YBP, Coutts, and others, enabling libraries to acquire titles using their existing print and digital workflows. Our resellers distribute Ebook Central solutions to libraries and other institutions around the world.
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Technology and Discovery Partners
Teamwork is key to supporting the entire ebook workflow, so we continue to enhance our solutions with both ProQuest solutions and integration with third-party party technologies and services.
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Search for a Book
Searching for the right title or chapter on Ebook Central is fast, easy and intuitive.
Organize Your Research
Managing your ebook titles is simple with the Ebook Central bookshelf.
Online Reader and Tools
Read, search, navigate and annotate – all from your web browser.
Using the Book Detail Page
Find important details about a book, including summaries, information about the author, reviews and more.
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Approval Plans
ProQuest offers a fully automated service that allows libraries to establish electronic and print format preferences by subject and publisher—even accounting for different release dates.
OASIS Collections Consulting Service
The OASIS Collections Consultants at ProQuest work collaboratively with librarians to build book profiles and plans that best meet a library’s book collection goals and budgets.
OASIS Technical Services
The OASIS Technical Services team of experts helps streamline a library's print and electronic book workflow with needs-based cataloging (MARC) support, multiple physical book processing options and customized partner workflows and integrations.
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