Monday, October 15, 2007
Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks™ Offer Integrated Online Content to EBSCO Customers
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A. October 8, 2007 – EBSCO is pleased to announce that Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks may now be purchased through EBSCO Information Services. EBSCO is one of the select group of vendor partners selling the online version of Wiley book titles that are available on the Wiley InterScience Web platform.
Available in fully customizable packages of titles, Wiley Interscience OnlineBooks add flexibility to e-book collection development. Libraries can choose from more than 2,900 online titles in the subject areas of STM, business, the humanities, finance and others.
With COUNTER-compliant usage statistics, libraries can review the usage of their Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks on a title-by-title level and annually swap out titles that are underused. Titles may also be added at any time.
“Wiley Interscience OnlineBooks offer flexible online access to a variety of subject areas,” said Christopher McKenzie, VP & director, Institutional Sales, Americas, Wiley-Blackwell. “We are pleased to work with EBSCO as a trusted intermediary to make our OnlineBooks collection available to libraries.”
For more information about the benefits of ordering Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks through EBSCO, please visit http://www2.ebsco.com/en-us/ProductsServices/ebooks/Pages/index.aspx.
About Wiley InterScience
Introduced in 1997 and launched commercially in January 1999, Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) is a leading international resource for quality content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors. In nearly a decade, Wiley InterScience has built its reputation by regularly adding new content and functionality, offering sophisticated search and navigation capabilities and providing robust online manuscript submission and management tools.
Today, Wiley InterScience features must-have content from more than 2,500 journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and the Cochrane Library, which is the world’s best-known resource for evidence-based medicine. More than half of Wiley’s journals on Wiley InterScience are digitized back to Volume 1, Issue 1 as part of the development of the journal backfile initiative. With the completion of the Wiley InterScience backfile in 2007, in conjunction with Wiley's Bicentennial, Wiley InterScience will be one of the largest archives of its kind with content dating back to 1799 and over 1.6 million articles of scientific and scholarly research.
About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services is the leading service provider for e-journal, e-book package and print subscriptions, a suite of e-resource management tools, full-text and secondary databases and related services for all types of libraries and research organizations.
As the “e” agent of the industry, more than half of the subscriptions handled by EBSCO have an electronic component. EBSCO’s comprehensive solutions include proven systems to consolidate ordering, invoicing, claiming and renewals as well as assistance with licensing and registration requirements for our e-journal and e-package customers worldwide.
Our publisher relationships uniquely position us to streamline many aspects of the e-resource life cycle. EBSCO maintains a Dun & Bradstreet financial strength rating of 5A1, the highest awarded, which underscores the importance placed on providing outstanding, ethical service.
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EBSCO Contact:
Mandy Hudson
Corporate Communications
+1 205 980-6707
mhudson@ebsco.com
Wiley Contact:
Ginny Foley
Wiley-Blackwell
+1-781 388-8334
vfoley@bos.blackwellpublishing.com
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