INFORUM 2010

New ebrary Technologies for University Education

Author

Romy Beard, ebrary, USA

Co-authors

Christopher Warnock, ebrary, USA

Documents to download

• Presentation

Abstract

In these tough economic times, libraries are looking for new ways to maximize the value of their resources. This presentation will cover how ebrary’s new technologies can help you cost-effectively enhance education and research activities at your university:

• DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast), a new feature of our Academic Complete subscription collection, enables customers to easily upload and share their theses and dissertations, special collections, reports, and other PDF documents. Libraries’ own materials integrate seamlessly with more than 48,400 multidis­ciplinary titles from over 425 publishers, making Academic Complete the best value in the industry!
• Patron-driven-acquisition (PDA), ebrary’s pilot program that helps libraries automatically purchase titles used by their students, faculty, and staff. Choose from over 102,000 premium e-books from leading publishers including Wiley, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, and many others. Buy only the titles that are being used!

Join us for a demonstration of how your institution can use these new developments, as well as other ebrary products and services, to better support academic study in multiple subject areas under any budget requirements.

Author's professional CV

Romy has been working in the Online Publishing industry for nearly 5 years and developed a keen interest in e-books. She started off in the Online Products department at Oxford University Press before moving to ebrary in late 2008, filling the new position of Regional Sales Manager – Europe. In her current role, she helps ebrary’s European resellers to understand the ebrary technology, content and business models, and promote it to their end-users.

Originally from Luxembourg, Romy is fluent in Luxembourish, German, French, Spanish and English. She is currently living in Glasgow, Scotland, and travelling throughout Europe to visit.

She has a MA (Hons) degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Glasgow, and a postgraduate MA from the University of Warwick. Her interest in electronic resources started during the “Literary and Linguistic Computing” course at Glasgow University, which introduced her to different ways of using computers in research.