ProQuest Ebook Central™

Product Description: At the core of Ebook Central is an exhaustive selection of authoritative, scholarly content – over 1,000,000 titles and 1,500 imprints from more than 750 publishers on one platform. An average of 100,000 newly published titles will be added each year to so that libraries can build dynamic collections that address the unique needs of their community of researchers.

The platform includes:

• Modern, user-centered design for researchers including full-text catalog search at the book and chapter level, an intuitive interface that supports online and offline reading, and bookshelf, spanning the breadth of patron requirements, from discovery & reading to retrieval & sharing.
• End-to-end librarian experience ProQuest LibCentral supports discovery, selection, acquisition, administration, and real-time usage and expenditure analytics.

Value Proposition: ProQuest offers librarians the widest range of options to build an ebook collection on a single platform. Librarians can combine numerous acquisition and access models to best serve the needs of their institution and to diversity their budget.

• Libraries take different approaches to ebook strategy. For example, libraries may focus on providing a critical mass of titles to their researchers or they may focus on building an owned collection. Collection versus Access is one way that this dynamic is often described. ProQuest offerings can accommodate each scenario.
• With ProQuest, titles across publishers are available in one platform with a modern, intuitive design. This provides a consistent user experience for your patrons when reading an ebook, saving titles to their bookshelf, or making notes.

Access Models

• Subscriptions offer an affordable way for libraries to provide a base collection of ebooks in both single and multi-disciplinary subject areas. All subscriptions offer simultaneous, unlimited access and continued growth at no additional cost throughout the subscription term. Subscriptions offer an excellent foundation for library ebook collections and can be enhanced through the Perpetual Access and Demand-driven Acquisition models.
• Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA-Also known as PDA) enables libraries to provide access to a large number of ebooks of their choice – and only purchase or loan those that are used following a free viewing period or when the patron copies, prints, or downloads. DDA ensures that library budgets go toward funding ebooks that patrons use for a greater return on investment.
  • Access-to-Own (ATO) is a new model that complements Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) while addressing concerns around STL pricing – both for libraries and publishers – by exchanging a higher price point for loans in return for expenditure toward ownership of books. Access-to-Own facilitates title ownership by applying budget dollars spent on loans to perpetual purchases. This solution also provides libraries access to a diverse number of high-demand titles—over 335 publishers, representing more than 370,000 titles, have been added to the roster of ATO participants.
  • Short-Term Loans (STLs) provide a means of renting an ebook. Many libraries offer STLs as part of their Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) programs. ProQuest’s STLs are flexible, allowing libraries to choose the number of STLs that occur before the purchase of the book at the patron level and preferred duration of each STL, in conjunction with price limits. STLs can be mediated or unmediated. A mediated loan refers to situations when the librarian reviews a patron request for the material and chooses to grant or deny access.
• Perpetual access enables libraries to buy and own ebooks, just like print titles. Libraries can select individual titles or pre-selected packs of titles under single or multi-user licenses. When a library buys a title, they also choose an access model that determines how many people can use the book simultaneously such 1-user, 3-user, Non-Linear™, or Unlimited Access. Extended Access prevents turn-aways when owned titles are in use.
  • 1-user 1 person can access the ebook at a time. Librarians are provided with options such as reserving an online copy (disabling full book download) to provide access to more patrons. Chapter Download is always available, even if full Download has been turned off by the librarian.
  • 3-user Up to 3 people can access the ebook at the same time which allows more patrons to access the titles they need. Three users can use one title simultaneously and do continuous browse without triggering a loan. This reduces the number of turn-aways your patrons experience.
  • Non-Linear Multiple users can access the ebook at the same time. There are a set number of lending days per title per year, typically up to 325 days. Lending days reset annually. Those days accommodate any scenario that may occur during the year – from high demand one semester to lower demand the next. After 12 months, the lending days automatically reset at no additional cost. Non-Linear is a great model to meet the peaks and troughs of demand throughout the year – from high demand one semester to lower demand the next. Regardless of whether the loans happen over a few months, or are spread across the whole year, the library can keep up with user’s needs.
  • Extended Access is a set of rules on how to handle situations where the library has reached the maximum use on an owned title, and another researcher needs it. The library can pre-define whether to initiate a short-term loan, upgrade, or purchase another copy. So rather than turning the researcher away, the access can be granted according to the pre-established rules.
  • Unlimited Access An unlimited number of people can access the ebook at the same time, including reading, copying, printing, or downloading a copy.

Product Features & Benefits

• DRM free chapter download and easy full title download with expanded DRM Quick intuitive user interface allows a choice of one-click easy DRM-free download at the chapter level or full book download with expanded DRM.
• Widest selection of authoritative, scholarly content. On average, 100,000 newly published titles are added each year from leading publishers to help libraries build dynamic collections that meet the unique needs of their community of researchers.
• Flexible ebook acquisition Ebook Central offers multiple models that can be combined to fit your institution’s needs and to diversify your budget including subscription, demand-driven acquisition, and numerous access options for perpetual access.
• Built in interoperability with key vendors
• Integrate with discovery layers to help researchers find information Ebook Central sends detailed, enriched title metadata to the ProQuest platform and the three major discovery services.
• Free, Fast Ebook Cataloging MARC21 records are available in UTF-8, MARC8 or XML formats. Ebook Central facilitates the OCLC WorldCat Cataloguing Partners service –with an OCLC subscription, receive free MARC records within 24 hours of the purchase.
• Support users with an unmatched, end-to-end user experience Titles across a wealth of publishers are available on one platform with a modern, intuitive design. Researchers can read online or download either a chapter or the entire book for offline reading, including support for mobile devices with the independent Bluefire Reader app (available for free for iOS in the App store and for Android in Google Play).

Ebook Central Continuing Service Fees: One year after your first purchase your institution will be charged an Ebook Central Continuing Service Fees. This fee is 5% of the sum of your purchases with a minimum fee of $250 and a maximum fee of $1500. If you subscribe to any ebook collections from ProQuest Ebook Central™, this fee is waived.

To get started: Please contact Ashley White at [email protected] or call 800-633-2665x374.

Cataloging Services

Matthews Offers a variety of ways to help your library streamline its acquisitions and cataloging processes. Through our partners and our own shelf-ready services, we will help get your library purchases on your shelves quickly.

WorldCat Cataloging Partner Service

WorldCat Cataloging Partners is a new, enhanced service that merges the existing OCLC Cataloging Partners Program with the PromptCat service. Now when you order your new library materials from Matthews, WorldCat Cataloging Partners delivers corresponding OCLC MARC records with the materials. This service will help libraries get materials to users, improve cataloging efficiency and save staff time.

The WorldCat Cataloging Partner process is simple; first you order your materials from Matthews. Second, we transmit the lists of titles ordered to OCLC. Third, OCLC sets your library holdings in WorldCat. Lastly, OCLC delivers the library’s records and reports and Matthews delivers your new materials at the same time. Also included is an electronic file of spine and pocket labels that can be delivered to the library or Matthews shelf-ready materials.

MARCIVE, Inc.

Marcive Inc. has teamed up with Matthews to provide cataloging materials to libraries. Simply complete a profile indicating your specifications of cataloging. Once an order is processed with Matthews, we transmit ISBN numbers or other points to Marcive, Inc. After we receive the cards and spines from Marcive we will ship them with your order.

Shelf Ready Processing

If you choose to use either the WorldCat Cataloging Partner Service or Marcive, Inc., Matthews can also deliver your books shelf ready. This fee-based process can include application of spine label, property stamps, barcode label application/scan, security strip, on print and multi-media products, due late slip, and more.

OCIC’s TechPro Service

If you are currently an OCLC TechPro customer, or wish to be, Matthews can have your books shipped directly to TechPro. Our staff will physically check your orders in our warehouse to ensure accuracy before shipment.

If you are interested in any of our library services and would like more information contact one of our library specialists at 1-800-MED-BOOK or email us.

Approval Plans

A Matthews’s medical librarian will meet with you and your staff to design an Approval Plan to meet the specific needs of your library, using a combination of subject profile, publisher lists, format exclusions, and Standing Orders exclusions. The Matthews Approval Plan Profile can be based on the National Library of Medicine Classification or the Library of Congress Classification Schedule.

To avoid duplication, we will check your firm orders against the titles shipped on Approval. Approval Plan titles are always shipped and invoiced separately from others orders, and can be sent on a schedule convenient to you. The Approval Plan can ship books, bibliographic slips (paper or electronic) or a combination of both.

For your convenience you can view and edit your Approval Plan selections from our website. The website displays book cover scans, abstracts, table of content information and contributing authors. Matthews will produce reports for review on monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and/or annual basis.

For more information on how an approval plan can help your library contact us.

Doody Core Titles Subscriptions

Matthews Medical Books is proud to offer this collection development tool from a leader in health science book reviews. Subscribers to DCT can access a variety of integrated tools on www.matthewsbooks.com.

• View a core list of titles online
  
  
• Receive DCT titles automatically in your approval plan shipment or notification
  
  
• See DCT scoring and specialty when searching the Matthews website
  
  
• See new edition information with links to previous edition scoring and specialty
  
  
• Sign up for the DCT Purchase History Program and see what you have/haven’t purchased from the list
  
  

For more information on Doody Core Titles contact us.

Information Updates

View new receipts by date on www.matthewsbooks.corn. Each record includes bibliographic information, book cover scans, availability in each of our warehouses, NLM and LC classifications, MeSH headings, and much more.

View Matthews Average Price Report, which accumulates pricing data on all new titles received during the previous year and arranges it by NLM classification. Each discipline is compared to prices from the previous two years to determine increases and/or decreasing in pricing trends in each discipline.

To make sure your standing order is continuing to serve your needs; Matthews will provide reports for review on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and/or yearly basis.

To receive information updates from Matthews, including our Average Price Report contact us.

Prinable Documents

•  Library Services Brochure (PDF)
  
  
•  Library Approval Plan (PDF)
  
  
•  Library Publisher List (PDF)
  
  
•  Cataloging Services (PDF)
  
  
•  Doody Core Title Flyer (PDF)