ebrary Signs System-Wide Deal with City University of New York (CUNY) for Academic Complete with DASH!

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that all libraries within the City University of New York (CUNY) have subscribed to Academic Complete. Twenty-three institutions including Baruch College, Hunter College, and City College of New York can now offer students and faculty simultaneous, multi-user access to a growing e-book database with more than 48,400 titles, powerful research tools, and their own digital archives created with DASH!™ (Data Sharing, Fast), a complimentary, do-it-yourself e-publishing feature of Academic Complete.

“We look forward to serving CUNY’s students and staff as well as receiving their input on how we can continually improve our Academic Complete flagship product, both in terms of content and technology that makes it easier to find, share, and manage information online.”

“CUNY is the nation’s leading urban public university serving more than 480,000 students in New York City, so it is quite an honor that they choose Academic Complete for their entire system,” said Gina McCue, Senior Vice President of North American Sales and Business Development. “We look forward to serving CUNY’s students and staff as well as receiving their input on how we can continually improve our Academic Complete flagship product, both in terms of content and technology that makes it easier to find, share, and manage information online.”

Additional key features and benefits of Academic Complete:

• Highly affordable with discounts for systems and consortia.
• Available 24/7 through any web-enabled device including the iPad — no cumbersome downloads.
• Text-to-speech and other accessibility features.
• Continued collection growth at no extra cost throughout the subscription term.
• Free MARC records.
• COUNTER-compliant usage statistics.
• Powerful tools for easy researching:
  • Multiple options for searching, navigating, and browsing.
  • ebrary InfoTools™, which turns every word into a portal to additional information on the web. InfoTools can be customized to link patrons to the resources of the library’s choice.
  • Notes and highlights that are automatically stored on a personal bookshelf.
  • Ability to copy/paste and print text with automatic citations and URL hyperlinks back to the source.
  • Personal bookshelves with moveable folders that can be emailed to others.
  • Much more!

See Academic Complete in Action

ebrary will be demonstrating Academic Complete as well as other products and services at ALA, June 26-28 in Washington DC (booth #2757). Additionally, the company is conducting a number of special events during the conference. For a listing and to RSVP, please visit http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newsALA.jsp.

Librarians, consortia, and others interested in seeing a demonstration may also email [e-mail].

About City University of New York (CUNY)

The City University of New York is the nation’s leading urban public university. Founded in New York City in 1847 as The Free Academy, the University’s 23 institutions include 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law, the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the CUNY School of Public Health. The University serves 260,000 academic credit students and 269,808 adult, continuing and professional education students. College Now, the University’s academic enrichment program for 32,500 high school students, is offered at CUNY campuses and more than 300 high schools throughout the five boroughs of New York City. The University offers online baccalaureate degrees through the School of Professional Studies and an individualized baccalaureate through the CUNY Baccalaureate Degree. More than 1 million visitors and 2 million page views are served each month by www.cuny.edu, the University’s website.

About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)

ebrary helps libraries, corporations, publishers, and consumers get the most out of their digital content. The company offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other valuable content from over 425 of the world’s leading publishers under flexible subscription, purchase, and usage-based models. Additionally, ebrary offers content services — DASH! (do-it-yourself), Software as a Service (SaaS) and licensed — for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online.

All ebrary products and services can be integrated and delivered via a single easy-to-use interface that includes powerful tools for finding, discovering, and managing information. With ebrary InfoTools™, every word in the ebrary system is a network to other online resources of the customer’s choice, extending content value while increasing end-user knowledge and efficiencies.

Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, USA.