Today, the netLibrary collection contains over 26,000 titles with another 6,000 in production. The range of subjects includes the humanities, social sciences, computer science and business. Libraries purchase access to the titles on behalf of their patrons. Each library can tailor their netLibrary collection by selecting a subset of titles from the larger netLibrary collection. The ebooks reside on netLibrary's servers.
Access is granted to the appropriate collection based on the user's IP address or login.
Pricing schemes vary, but in general, a year's worth of access to a title is equal to the title's list price, plus a yearly adminsitrative subscription cost. Each netLibrary title has been put in escrow with OCLC, so that if netLibrary should fold, a library that has purchased access to a title in perpetuity would receive from OCLC a copy of the ebook file. The library would then have to mount the ebooks on its own servers. Access to the titles within netLibary mirrors the traditional library circulation model. Only one person at a time can be viewing a copyrighted title within the collection.