ebrary Offers IGI Global’s Award-Winning InfoSci-Books

ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that it is offering InfoSci-Books, an award-winning selection of all books and reference works published since the year 2000 by IGI Global, an industry-leading publisher on advanced computer science and information technology research. InfoSci-Books features over 25,000 chapters from more than 900 scholarly titles spanning all areas of information/computer science and technology applied to business and public administration, engineering, education, medical and healthcare, and social science.

Libraries, corporations, and other organizations may choose to acquire the InfoSci-Books database with annual subscription or perpetual options, including current year packages. Individual e-books are also available for purchase at list price directly through ebrary, its global network of resellers, and select book vendors including YBP, Ambassador, Blackwell, and Matthews.

“ebrary’s flexible payment and access options enable us to provide InfoSci-Books under models that fit the needs and budget requirements of libraries, corporations and other organizations around the world,” said Jan Travers, Vice President of IGI Global. “We are also excited that customers can benefit from ebrary’s powerful research tools, which allow end-users to easily and efficiently find, use, and manage the information in InfoSci-Books.”

“We are proud to help IGI Global in its mission to disseminate the most current research on the role, impact, and effective use of technology across a variety of settings, including business, education, health care, government, and more,” said Leslie Lees, Vice President of Content Development at ebrary. “InfoSci-Books has been rated 10 out of 10 by Library Journal and was recently named ‘Best Reference Database,’ proof of the endorsement IGI Global receives from the library community.”

Customers may supplement their IGI Global collection by acquiring additional ebrary e-books and licensing the company’s technology to host their own materials in related subject areas, creating a customized, integrated database that can be delivered via a single, easy-to-use interface. Key features and benefits include the following:

• Anytime/anywhere access.
• ebrary InfoTools™ networks every word with other online resources.
• Multiple options for searching and navigating.
• Personal bookshelves automatically store links to highlights, notes, and more, providing an archive of research. Folders can be emailed to peers.
• Automatic citations when text is printed or copied and pasted into Word or any text applications. Citations include an automatic URL hyperlink back to the source.
• Highlighting and annotating.
• Ability to transform text into a hyperlink to a URL of the end-user’s choice.
• Text-to-speech and other keyboard shortcuts to assist end-users with special accessibility needs.

To request a free trial, title list or more information, please email sales@ebrary.com.

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