Ebrary

ebrary
ProducerProQuest (United States)
History1999 - 2015
Access
CostSubscription
Links
Websitewww.ebrary.com

ebrary (the "e" is lower case) was an online digital library which held over 100,000 scholarly e-books in 2014.[1] It was available in many academic libraries and provided a set of online database collections that combined scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also included sheet music (9,000 titles) and government documents. Additionally, ebrary offered a service called "DASH!" for customers to distribute their own PDF content online.

ebrary had 2,700 subscribers (mostly libraries) at the end of 2009.[2] Users gained access through a subscribing library and could view, search, copy, and print documents from their computers.

ebrary was founded in 1999 by friends Christopher Warnock and Kevin Sayar.[3] It was headquartered in Palo Alto, California,[4] and was acquired by ProQuest in 2011.[5] In 2015, ProQuest replaced ebrary with ProQuest Ebook Central. Before it was replaced, it held over 900,000 documents.[6]

  1. ^ "ebrary's Academic Complete tops 100,000 titles". 22 January 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2016 – via ProQuest.
  2. ^ Cooper, Peggy; Babbitt, Deborah (March 2002). "Second Annual Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge". Serials Review. 28 (1): 67–73. doi:10.1080/00987913.2002.10764713. ISSN 0098-7913. S2CID 62596648.
  3. ^ "ebrary About: Company". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  4. ^ McKiel, Allen (2008-06-11). "Survey Analysis: ebrary User Survey". The Acquisitions Librarian. 19 (3–4): 231–245. doi:10.1080/08963570802177253. ISSN 0896-3576.
  5. ^ "ProQuest Ebook Central enters beta." Smart Libraries Newsletter, vol. 35, no. 8, Aug. 2015, p. 6. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A426444231/ITOF?u=tamp44898&sid=ITOF&xid=09f847f2. Accessed 22 Nov. 2020.
  6. ^ "ebrary Home Page". ebrary. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2020.