ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of nearly 2,800 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. These titles are offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. These are works of major importance that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. The collection features unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.

HEB, which launched in September 2002, now adds approximately 500 books annually to the collection, including a carefully selected list of new XML titles that have the potential to use new media to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways. Titles now include monographs, collected essays and primary sources. HEB offers the following benefits:

• A comprehensive reviewed collection, chosen by scholars and scholarly societies
• Full-text books presented in three formats: page-image, text and PDF
• A fully integrated, cross-searchable platform
• Universal and 24/7 access to all members of the campus community
• Unlimited course reserve and classroom use
• Elimination of off-site, missing, or damaged print copies
• In-depth, full-text, rather than extract, search results
• Free, downloadable MARC records and usage statistics
• An expanding collection of print-on-demand titles

Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Wolters Kluwer Health’s power brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons and electronic information providers, such as Ovid and UpToDate.

Founded in 1988 as a small software start-up, Ovid was one of the first businesses to recognize the rapidly expanding capabilities of information technology. From its start helping librarians and researchers access and search MEDLINE records, Ovid has grown into a world leader in information access providing electronic content, research capabilities, and support services to users worldwide. Today, millions of information managers, researchers, students, and clinicians around the world have access to the OvidSP complete research solution to inform their work to improve patient care, fuel new discoveries and enhance ongoing research.

Ovid offers tremendous depth and breadth of content via OvidSP and published by the world’s leading publishers:

• More than 3,000 ebooks, including 60 book collections, including archive collections of critical historical material, publisher collections, and topical collections
• Over 1,200 premium, peer-reviewed journals - with no embargoes! Plus 50 journal collections, including archive collections and packages based on publisher or subject
• Over 100 bibliographic and full-text databases

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a publishing house with a strong international focus on Humanities and Social Sciences. With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), Brill today publishes more than 100 journals and around 500 new books and reference works each year. The main subject areas of Brill’s publication program are history, religion, Islamic studies, Asian studies and classical studies as well as specialist scientific fields and international law. Brill’s mainly English language publications include book series, individual monographs and encyclopaedias as well as journals.

Brill e-books are in full-text, searchable electronic format. New titles are regularly added. Brill has e-book collections in the following subject areas:

• Asian Studies
• Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity
• Biology and Materials Surface Sciences
• Classical Studies
• European History and Culture
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Middle East and Islamic Studies
• Religious Studies: Theology and Philosophy
• Social Sciences

Taylor & Francis, founded in the City of London in 1798, is one of the oldest commercial journals publishers in the world, and one of the leading global academic publishers. Operating from a network of 20 global offices, the Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1,500 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles.

Taylor & Francis has continued to go from strength to strength, positioning itself for the demands of academic research in the 21st century. In 2004 Taylor & Francis merged with Informa to create a global force in the fields of events management, business-to-business magazines, subscription publications and publishing services.

CRCnetBASE (part of the Taylor & Francis Group) is made up of over 6,000 online books that span over 40 disciplines. In addition to e-books published under the imprint CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online references from Auerbach and Chapman & Hall. The powerful research platform has been adopted throughout the world at academic and corporate institutions.

Founded in 1999, Credo Reference, with offices in Oxford and Boston, has been offering completely customizable reference collections for libraries since 2002.

Credo General Reference is a completely customizable online reference solution for learners and librarians. Offering 516 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo General Reference covers every major subject from the world’s best publishers of reference. Their content, technology and customer service have earned them rave reviews.

Credo’s General Reference services combine extensive content from multiple publishers with unique cross-referencing technology, effortlessly delivering authoritative answers to millions of researchers worldwide. The Credo Reference platform allows libraries to customize the research experience with seamless searching of their other resources including the library catalogue, periodical resources, specialized databases and more.

Publisher Collections enable libraries to augment their collections with subject-specific content from highly-regarded publishers. Available as a stand-alone option or alongside a subscription to one of Credo’s fully customizable General Reference solutions, Publisher Collections will offer these resources either as a complete collection for purchase or subscription or as individual titles for purchase. Users will experience the content as a fully integrated part of their Credo Reference experience.

Knovel is a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. Knovel is the choice of more than 340 leading universities including 12 of the top 15 US engineering schools. Gathering reliable data is the first step in any engineering problem, both in the professional world and academia. As you assign your students more real-world problem sets, providing them with access to Knovel will offer them the same access to information their professional counterparts have. This access will make your students’ university experience increasingly relevant to their future career choices.

Knovel provides the technical answers and background information engineers need whether they are on or off-site and when their colleagues or the internet search engines just cannot help. Knovel helps Engineering managers and executives come up with better solutions to technical problems faster – resulting in faster time to market, more innovative products and lower costs.

eContent isn’t new to libraries. What is new is the ever-widening array of choices and eResources available through the Web. As formats, languages and technologies multiply, so does the challenge to manage and deliver quality content - in ways that will work both today and tomorrow. NetLibrary meets that challenge as the most versatile eContent provider for libraries and publishers today. It supports the most content from leading publishers, the most types of media - including eBooks and eAudiobooks - the widest audience of users and the most types of libraries. NetLibrary takes you far beyond the world of eBooks to provide a flexible and stable eContent platform that is positioned for continual rapid content growth.

NetLibrary launched the eBook category and is fast growing to become the eContent provider of choice for academic, community college, public, medical, corporate and many other libraries. It offers easy-to-use functionality with access to multiple formats and best-selling titles from the world’s leading publishers. NetLibrary represents a unique dual heritage: a trusted partner for librarians and publishers, with a firm commitment to technological innovation on behalf of end-users.

NetLibrary has more than 2,00,000 eBooks and thousands of eAudiobooks.

In July 2001, two of the world’s most prominent technology publishers, O’Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Education, joined forces to create Safari Books Online – to compile the best technology books from the leading authors and publishers into an online database that technology, IT, creative, business and management professionals could quickly and easily search for reliable, definitive answers to mission-critical questions.

Today Safari Books Online offers a depth and breadth of technology, creative, digital media, business and management content that no other digital library comes close to matching. Nearly one million professionals rely on Safari Books Online for access to timely and accurate information to critical questions. Without question, Safari Books Online is fast changing the way that corporate, academic, and training organizations access and share information.

Safari Books Online has the most extensive collection of important technology, creative, business and management books from the world’s most trusted Authors and Publishers, like O’Reilly Media, John Wiley & Sons, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, Apress, Manning and many more.

All of the content is vetted, reliable, and includes the most current, relevant and best-selling titles available on the market today. In addition, key hard-to-find technology books from past versions or editions can also be found in its library. In fact, 85% of the hottest technology books sold in the retail market are available on Safari Books Online.

Springer’s business is publishing. Throughout the world, they provide scientific and professional communities with superior specialist information – produced by authors and colleagues across cultures in a nurtured collegial atmosphere of which we are justifiably proud.

Over 2,000 academic journals and around 6,500 new books are published each year by Springer. 90 percent of their publications appear on the market in English.

SpringerLink is the world’s most complete online collection of STM books, journals, reference works and databases. More than 60,000 librarians worldwide choose SpringerLink for online scientific content.

The SpringerLink Online Journal collection includes more than 2,400 peer-reviewed journals. Through the Online Archives Collection almost every journal is available online from Volume I, Issue I. Springer’s eBook Collection is the largest collection of STM Books Online with nearly 40,000 eBooks available. More than 4,000 new eBooks and eReferences are added every year. All Springer publications including eBooks, Online Journals and eReferences are contained in 12 Subject Collections.

Other e-products include SpringerProtocols, SpringerImages, SpringerMaterials, Zentralblatt MATH

Taylor & Francis, founded in the City of London in 1798, is one of the oldest commercial journals publishers in the world, and one of the leading global academic publishers. Operating from a network of 20 global offices, the Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1,500 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles.

Taylor & Francis has continued to go from strength to strength, positioning itself for the demands of academic research in the 21st century. In 2004 Taylor & Francis merged with Informa to create a global force in the fields of events management, business-to-business magazines, subscription publications and publishing services.

CRCnetBASE (part of the Taylor & Francis Group) is made up of over 6,000 online books that span over 40 disciplines. In addition to e-books published under the imprint CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online references from Auerbach and Chapman & Hall. The powerful research platform has been adopted throughout the world at academic and corporate institutions.

The Walter de Gruyter publishing group, which includes the imprints De Gruyter Mouton and De Gruyter Saur, is known throughout the world as a leading publisher of academic literature. For more than two-hundred and sixty years the name De Gruyter has been synonymous with high-quality, landmark publications in the humanities and natural sciences. De Gruyter publishes high quality content across a range of subject areas including language and linguistics, philosophy, theology and religious studies, art, classical and ancient studies, history, academic and library reference, library and information science, medicine and natural sciences, mathematics and physics, law and Jewish studies.

De Gruyter e-dition makes over 50,000 high-quality titles available from De Gruyter’s more than 260-year publishing history. At De Gruyter, even titles from 1749 are available with today’s state of the art technology. All eBooks are searchable in full text and indexed, and provide DOIs and MARC records.

Wiley-Blackwell is the international Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world’s leading societies. Wiley-Blackwell publishes 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols.

Wiley Online Library hosts the world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Featuring a clean and simple interface, this online service delivers intuitive navigation, enhanced discoverability, expanded functionalities and a range of personalization and alerting options.

• Easy-to-Use New Design: Developed in consultation with users to deliver intuitive navigation and easy access to articles, chapters, references, and supplementary information.
• Enhanced Tools to Discover Relevant Content: Comprehensive search engine optimization ensures easy discoverability of content, delivering relevant and immediate results to users.
• More Ways to Stay Up-to-Date: Content alerts and RSS feeds to keep you updated with the latest published research.

World eBook Library is a branch of the World Public Library Association. The World Public Library Consortia Collection shelves more than 10,00,000+ PDF eBooks in 100+ languages. The World Public Library Consortia contains 125 of the finest eBook and eDocument collections published on the Internet today. The mission of the World Public Library’s Acquisition Department is to add new eBooks 24/7 to their shelves.

World Public Library eBooks are a great value that will instantly add over one million popular eBook titles into your library’s offerings, without the costs associated with print books. With eBooks there is no need for shelves, book space, or additional computer resources. Other benefits include not having to worry about lost and stolen materials, re-shelving, delivering, tracking and maintenance of electronic materials.

• Over 10,00,000+ complete, full length, unabridged PDF eBooks, eDocuments, and References.
• Conveniently organized into different categories and subcategories.
• Search capabilities with full text, title, author, and category.
• PDF file printing, highlighting, bookmarking, and annotation capabilities.
• PDF Built-in dictionary: define any word with the click of a button.
• 85,000 Illustrations, Graphics, Maps, and Pictures.