Encyclopedia Britannica issues Great Books in e-book form; Elsevier releases tech books as e-books
By Paul Biba
- From the press release:
Great Books of the Western World, the 60-volume set of classics published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, is now available to libraries, universities and schools in electronic form and distributed exclusively through Ingram Digital’s industry-leading MyiLibrary™ aggregated e-book platform.
Fully searchable and extensively interlinked, the electronic-book edition of the set enables readers to find anything in the corpus with a simple keyword search, making it easier to navigate and conduct research on the contents of the set, in addition to reading in the conventional way.
The product also contains a complete set of hypertext links between the Syntopicon, the two-volume idea index to the Great Books, and the places in the main text that the Syntopicon entries refer to.
From the press release:
Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that over 600 Medical, Veterinary Medicine, and Health Professions book titles will be launched in Health Science eBook Collections in April 2009 on ScienceDirect, its online scientific research platform.
Elsevier’s health science books are published under the imprints W.B. Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, and Hanley & Belfus, publishers with a rich medical and health science publishing heritage dating back to 1688. The inclusion of these books on ScienceDirect will allow more researchers across the world to access these valuable content resources.
“As part of Elsevier’s strategic expansion of its electronic content offerings, we are pleased to offer a wide range of high-quality medical books via ScienceDirect, further expanding the value and breadth of content available on ScienceDirect,” commented Linda Belfus, Senior Vice President, Global Medicine, Health Sciences. “This represents an important opportunity for our medical books to achieve greater utility and visibility in the global medical and scientific community, as well as reach new markets.”
Linda Duncan, Vice President and Publisher, Nursing & Health Professions, Health Sciences, added “Elsevier’s inclusion of books from health science areas such as physical therapy, optometry, and veterinary medicine on ScienceDirect exposes customers around the globe to content they might not readily have been able to access previously.”
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
As far as i can it’s not compatible with any dedicated ebook reader but depends on modern general purpose WebBrowsers and a live internet connection am i missing something here?
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
No, haven’t. But is an electronic version as opposed to a p-book.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Hi, Daniel. It’s still an e-book, if you consider Wikipedia one, which I do. Thanks. David