The Academic Library aims
to bring the latest and best academic texts directly online to academic
institutions, their staff and students.
The books are in PDF (Adobe
Acrobat) format, and are fully page compatible with the paper versions,
which means that all references apply to both versions. All
have links to the table of contents.
All books are fully searchable
using one of the fastest and most sophisticated search
engine available. As well as comprehensive free text search,
there are also Boolean (and, or, not), proximity (one
word within n words of another), fuzzy (accomodates
alternative forms or misspelling) and word stemming (all
forms of a word) search functions.
The search engine makes extensive use of metadata.
Books can be searched on any combination of title, author, subject,
keywords, date published and their ISBN. Search results may be sorted
by title, author or date of publication as well as by the number
of hits for each search term.
Access to the texts themselves is by institutional
subscription only, but you can view the lists of collections and
books by clicking on Title List in the bar above. Where possible
the books have links to retailers websites, giving more information
on the texts and pricing for the paper or CD versions.
The Academic Library offers significant advantages
for librarians and publishers as well as for students and academics.
For librarians advantages include:
- Unlimited simultaneous access. Titles are
never unavailable.
- Lists are continually updated and the latest
titles are instantly available
- Access by both Athens and IP address,
allowing distanced learning where appropriate.
- Subscriptions can include individual titles
or complete collections in any combination, maximising
cost-efficiency.
- Titles or collections can be added to the
subscription at any time.
For publishers the benefits include:
- Access to the fastest growing sector of
publishing and one which is bound to take a major share of future
business.
- PDF format means minimal cost in conversion
for web viewing.
- Online viewing is a major marketing platform
for paper versions.
- Online statistical reports give usage data
never before available.
If you are an academic librarian you can have a free trial of the system by clicking on the bar above
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