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"The ebrary platform has enabled us readily to create dynamic topical sites based on our own content. We specifically like the way it enables us to integrate subject-specific sites with ebrary’s InfoTools, our OPAC, and ebrary’s databases. It is easy for our staff to upload PDFs, though ebrary implements and maintains the databases of PDFs for us.”
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Michael Keller
University Librarian and Director of
Academic Information Resources
Stanford University
Stanford, California
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Did you know that you can license the ebrary® platform to distribute your own PDF content online?
The same platform that we use to deliver e-books and other content to more than 1,000 customers throughout the world is available as an application service. It features all of the same rich functionality as our e-content products including the ebrary Reader™ and InfoTools™ software.
Whether it’s your e-content or ours, all documents in the ebrary platform can be cross referenced and integrate with other digital resources and information on the web.
For libraries, our platform provides an easy and cost-effective way to archive, manage, and share digital content such as theses and dissertations, reports, historical books, manuscripts, or other documents in PDF that have been digitized by the library. To see an example of ebrary’s platform in use at Stanford University click here.
Publishers may integrate the ebrary platform with their existing website to efficiently market and sell their e-books as well as provide “look inside the book” and “electronic samples” features. And, publishers can sell their e-books online under a variety of different business models, including subscriptions, perpetual ownership, or micro-transactions (one page at a time).
For corporations, our platform provides a cost-effective and efficient way to improve knowledge sharing within the organization. Corporations may easily submit white papers, reports, presentations, or any PDF content into the ebrary system.
Some of the world’s most prestigious libraries, publishers, and content distributors such as Stanford University Library, McGraw-Hill, Blackwell Book Services, the American Library Association (ALA), the Special Library Association (SLA), Gibson Library Connections, Cyberlibris and e-Libro license the ebrary platform to distribute and market their electronic content online.
Key Features and Benefits
- Reduced development costs, time to market and overall cost of ownership.
- Easy PDF submission – ebrary supports multiple file types including PDF normal, web PDF, and rasterized PDF.
- Integration – The ebrary platform integrates with a customer’s creation and dissemination workflow.
- Flexible meta-tagging – Enhance your content with the minimum essentials, complete MARC Records or with custom xml and get your content distributed cost effectively.
- The ebrary Reader delivers pages to a patron’s desktop page-by-page, eliminating cumbersome document downloads. The ebrary Reader offers better functionality than the browser or Adobe Reader.
- InfoTools turns every word, in every document, into a contextual link to additional online information and assets.
- Multiple search options including simple, advanced, full-text, key word, Boolean, and proximity search.
- Personal Bookshelves automatically archive highlights, notes, and bookmarks.
- Copying and printing text with customizable, automatic citations.
- Automatic, customizable citations include a URL hyperlink back to the source.
- Integration with ILS systems, other subscription databases, search engines, and eCommerce applications.
- Reporting tools show how content is being used while protecting end-user privacy. ebrary reports show usage at the page level vs. document downloads.
- ebrary APIs – ebrary offers an application programming interface that allows customers to customize the look and feel of their site and leverage existing end-user authentication mechanisms.
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