27 September 2005
Proquest Offering 2000+ Medical e-Books From MyiLibrary
ProQuest Information and Learning will use the MyiLibrary platform to distribute more than 2000 medical and health e-books worldwide.
“We have been asked by many of our customers to bring electronic medical books to them and we’re responding with titles that are truly at the top of the list for libraries,” said Roger Tritton, ProQuest senior publisher. “Having surveyed a number of potential e-book platforms we selected MyiLibrary as it offers a spectacular range of books on a flexible, easy-to-use platform, incorporating key features such as full-text searching that complement ProQuest’s existing medical content in countless ways.”
This agreement with MyiLibrary continues ProQuest’s ongoing strategy to expand its STM content pool with highly respected and authoritative titles. The company recently signed licensing agreements with Nature Publishing Group, NewsRx and Alliance Publishing. In the past six months, ProQuest has added more than 150 new journal and other periodicals to ProQuest Medical and Health Complete.
Beginning immediately, a range of the Oxford Textbooks and Oxford Handbooks will be available on the MyiLibrary platform along with many other key titles from Medical Publishers such as Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Blackwells and others. Users can choose to purchase individual medical titles, or subscribe to complete collections. Metadata from the books will be loaded onto the ProQuest platform allowing users to cross-search between information in full-text periodicals on ProQuest and books in the MyiLibrary collection.
Linda Vendryes, President of MyiLibrary commented: “We are delighted to have an agreement with ProQuest that will see a complete range of Medical, Nursing and Health e-book titles offered alongside the ProQuest full-text medical titles. With the ability to cross search the two resources, we have created the most powerful content offering available today to libraries in the health and medical fields”.
For more information about medical and health products from ProQuest visit the company on the web at www.proquest.co.uk or contact Gina Ghensi at gina.ghensi@proquest.co.uk.
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