Spreadsheet: 289b27f3-ee27-41ed-9e56-88012f6c3301
Sheet: E-book platforms

E-Book Platforms FY12
Platform | Description | No. of Titles | Owned or Leased?
Chadwyk-Healey | Access to Early English Books Online (EEBO), which consists of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), [NAME]'s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement - in full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection. | 125117 | Owned
EBSCOhost | Of the e-books we access through EBSCOhost, 4,478 are titles we share with former NELINET libraries (from the group purchase of NetLibrary back in the late 1990s) and 3,645 are publicly accessible titles. While the publication dates of our NELINET titles range from 1957-2001, the vast majority of titles were published in 1998, 1999, and 2000. One concurrent user for shared titles. | 8123 | Owned
[NAME] (GDL) | Platform for the one-time purchase of directories published by [NAME]. Each new edition counts as an additional title. [NAME] has: Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S., [NAME] of Publications and Broadcast Media, and Market Share Reporter. | 8 | Owned
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) | Platform for the one-time purchase of reference books published by [NAME]. | 1 | Owned
IGI Global | Platform for the one-time purchase of books published by IGI Global. | 1 | Owned
Morgan & Claypool | E-books on engineering and computer science topics. [NAME] owns Synthesis Collections 1-3. | 350 | Owned
Project Muse | Access to UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, which offers books from noted university presses and scholarly publishers. Participating publishers select the titles they offer on the MUSE platform on an annual basis (not all titles are included). | 1825 | Owned
[NAME] of Americana | Access to Early American Imprints Series I: Evans 1639-1800), which contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. Digitized from one of the most important collections ever produced on microform, Early American Imprints, Series I is based on [NAME]’ renowned “American Bibliography” and [NAME] supplement. Includes more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages. | 36605 | Owned
Safari Books Online | Platform providing access to URI's subscription to 100 technology and digital media books online. Collection automatically updated with new editions of titles. | 100 | Leased
Salem Health | Online platform for reference books. Free online with print. Owned by EBSCO. | 3 | Owned
Salem History | Online platform for reference books. Free online with print. Owned by EBSCO. | 21 | Owned
Salem Literature | Online platform for reference books. Free online with print. Owned by EBSCO. | 1 | Owned
Salem Science | Online platform for reference books. Free online with print. Owned by EBSCO. | 4 | Owned
ScienceDirect | Platform for the one-time purchase or lease of books published by Elsevier. | 2 | Owned
Stat!Ref | Shared access with ARIHSL libraries to a custom set of 10 online reference books in the health sciences. Collection automatically updated with new editions of titles. Limit of five concurrent users. | 10 | Leased
[NAME] Publishing | Access to a collection of "Science and Math through Literature" e-books for children, acquired through a grant. | 65 | Owned
TOTAL
green = new for 2011-2012