R.R. Bowker Signs Licensing Agreement With Ebrary

Posted on November 20, 2002

R.R. Bowker, a publisher of bibliographic information, will begin selling a customized Bowker-ebrarian research database to librarians, library patrons, students and faculty as the result of a recently signed licensing agreement with ebrary, a provider of information distribution and retrieval services. The new database -- accessible from booksinprint.com and globalbooksinprint.com -- will provide access to a searchable collection of full text from more than 13,000 books and other content derived from 130 publishers. It can be integrated with a library's existing ILS system and can be used to search by keyword or phrase through dictionaries, encyclopedias, websites and other reference materials.

In addition to the new research database, Bowker will also make available to its booksinprint.com and globalbooksinprint.com subscribers the capability to freely view the full text of titles available with ebrary's PDF-based technology. From the title record in booksinprint.com and globalbooksinprint.com, users will see a button to quickly view the full text where available.

"Bowker has 130 years of experience in this market and ranks as the world's leading source for bibliographic products, so we are delighted that they will be reselling our ebrarian database and integrating our technology into booksinprint.com and globalbooksinprint.com," said Christopher Warnock, chief executive officer of Mountain View, Calif.-based ebrary. "Through our partnership, we can fulfill our mutual goal of providing the highest level of services to librarians, staff and patrons."