[Web4lib] Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) expands its resources with Springer eBooks

[Marcakis, Jason, Springer US]

Press Release

 

Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) expands its resources
with Springer eBooks

All twenty OCUL libraries to benefit

 

New York/Berlin, 28 January 2008 

 

Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com
<http://www.springer.com/> ) has signed an agreement with the Ontario
Council of University Libraries (OCUL) to provide all of its member
libraries with the complete Springer eBook Collection, 2005 - 2008. All
of the 20 universities in Ontario are members of OCUL, including the
University of Toronto, McMaster University, University of Guelph, and
Nipissing University.

 

With the OCUL consortium deal, over 12,000 Springer eBooks will be made
available to nearly 400,000 students and faculty within OCUL.The
Springer eBook Collection is comprised of textbooks, monographs,
reference works, handbooks, book series and encyclopedias.

 

"OCUL is pleased to provide our members access to the large collection
of Springer's highly relevant online content," said Faye Abrams,
Projects Officer, OCUL. "The wide range of Springer's eBooks will
benefit our students and faculty across varied departments and
disciplines."

 

"We are especially excited about this agreement because it provides the
consortium with rights to load the Springer e-book content on OCUL's own
search systems. The Springer e-book content will be fully integrated
with the significant e-journal collections already loaded on OCUL's
Scholars Portal platform," said Alan Darnell, Manager, OCUL Scholars
Portal.

 

"We believe this deal will be highly beneficial to both Springer and the
OCUL participating libraries," said Olaf Ernst, President of eProduct
Management and Innovation at Springer.  "The agreement highlights
Springer's growing adoption among competitive research libraries and its
drive to offer users the most useful e-products available."

 

With immediate effect, all students and researchers at the individual
universities have electronic access and full archival rights to the
Springer eBooks. Currently this includes more than 12,000 eBooks, all
available on Springer's online platform, SpringerLink. SpringerLink also
includes millions of articles from Springer's peer-reviewed journals and
reference works. Thanks to a powerful search engine, researchers,
librarians and students quickly find exactly the information they need. 

 

About OCUL:

OCUL (http://www.ocul.on.ca/index.php) is a consortium of twenty
university libraries in the province of Ontario. The member libraries
cooperate to enhance information services through resource sharing,
collective purchasing, document delivery and many other similar
activities. OCUL's vision is to be a recognized leader in provincial,
national and international post-secondary communities for the
collaborative development and delivery of outstanding and innovative
library services. Established in 1967, OCUL's twenty member institutions
continue to enhance their libraries through activities such as the joint
creation of the digital library Scholars Portal.

About Springer:

Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com
<http://www.springer.com/> ) is one of the world's leading suppliers of
scientific and specialist literature.  It is the second-largest
publisher of journals in the science, technology, and medicine (STM)
sector, the largest publisher of STM books and the largest
business-to-business publisher in the German-language area.  The group
publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as
well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide.  Springer has
operations in about 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and some
5,000 employees.

 

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