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Canadian Electronic Library Publishers
Collection Selected by CRKN for 67 Canadian Universities
August 11, 2008 – Saint-Lazare, QC.
With CRKN’s selection of the
Canadian Electronic Library Publishers
Collection from Gibson Library Connections as one of the digital
collections licensed through its Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human
and Social Sciences (DCI) program, a rich body of Canadian source materials in
the social science and humanities will become available in electronic form to Canadian
scholars and researchers for the first time.
For a number of years now, the
Canadian publishers involved have been working to prepare for this opportunity
by clearing rights and digitizing their backlists. Through the Canadian
Electronic Library, these are delivered with high-quality MARC records,
enabling libraries to fully integrate these titles with their permanent
collections. The ebrary platform provides a full suite of sophisticated search
and user-support functions, like bookmarks, personal notes and bookshelves, as
well as text-to-speech aids for vision-impaired users. The bilingual content of
the collection (over 1000 titles in French) will be properly displayed with
ebrary’s multilingual interface.
The CRKN license provides
for several innovative options:
“Providing access to this
wealth of scholarly material is a critical step in enabling researchers and
students across the nation to further understand our society and how Canadians
are shaping the world we live in,” said Dr. David Turpin, President and
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Victoria and Chair of the CRKN Board of
Directors. “The newly-gained access to
this material will have a profound impact on the way Canadians conduct
research, collaborate and turn ideas into a better, more innovative society.”
Gary Gibson, President of
Gibson Library Connections, says “we’re proud to be associated with this ground-breaking
initiative, which brings together the growing demand for digital materials from
libraries with the publishers’ interests in supplying it. Over its six year term, the proceeds from
this agreement will serve to benefit both publishing and library communities by
fueling a digital transformation. By promoting
increased digitization of Canadian materials and heightened usage of online
monographs, this initiative will insure greater value and choice for libraries
interested in offering their users Canadian content in electronic form.”
The following 47 Canadian
publishers are participants in the CRKN license:
Anvil Press
Arsenal Pulp Press
Between The Lines
Biblioasis
Breakwater Books
Brindle & Glass
Broadview Press
Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives
Canadian Scholars' Press and
Women's Press
Dundurn Group
ECW Press
Fernwood Publishing
Flanker Press
Formac Press
Goose Lane Editions
Hedgerow Press
Heritage House Publishing
IDRC Books/Les Éditions du
CRDI
Insomniac Press
Institute for Research in
Public Policy
James Lorimer & Company
Limited
Jesperson Publishing
Les
Presses de l'Université de Montréal
Les
Presses de l'Université du Québec
McGill-Queen's University
Press
New Society Publishers
New Star Books
Nimbus Publishing
Orca Book Publishers
Pacific Educational Press
Pontifical Institute for
Medieval Studies
Raincoast Books
Rocky Mountain Books
Sumach Press
Talonbooks
The Porcupine's Quill
Theytus Books
Touchwood Editions
UBC Press
XYZ Éditeur
About CKRN: The Canadian Research Knowledge
Network is a partnership of Canadian universities, dedicated to expanding
digital content for the academic research enterprise in
This agreement was reached
under CRKN’s Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences
(DCI) Project. The DCI project was funded under the Canada Foundation for
Innovation’s National Platforms Fund, in partnership with 8 provincial
governments and 67 Canadian universities.
For more information on CRKN, visit our website at www.ResearchKnowledge.ca or please
contact:
Louisa Hood
Communications Officer, Canadian Research Knowledge Network
Tel: 613.907.7031
Cel: 613.851.5163
About GLC: Gibson Library Connections
is a publisher and distributor of digital content serving the Canadian library
market. The principals, Gary and
About SLC: The MARC records for Canadian Electronic Library are
created by Special Libraries Cataloguing of Victoria, BC.
About ebrary
(www.ebrary.com): ebrary® is a leading
provider of e-content services and technology. The company helps libraries,
publishers, and other organizations worldwide disseminate valuable information
to end users, while improving their research and document interaction.
The company has developed a flexible e-content platform, which customers may
use in a number of different, integrated capacities: ebrary customers may
purchase or subscribe to e-books and other content under a variety of pricing
and access models, and they may license the ebrary platform to distribute,
sell, and market their own content online. All options are delivered using a customizable
interface and include the ebrary Reader™ with InfoTools™ software, which enable
integration with other resources to provide an economical and efficient way to
utilize information.
ebrary currently offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 e-books and
other titles from more than 300 leading publishers and aggregators.
Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in