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Apologies for cross-postings.

For immediate release,
November 5, 2007

For more information, contact
Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations Manager
libraryrelations@dukeupress.edu
http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/edukebooks.html

Michael McCullough, Sales Manager
mmccullough@dukeupress.edu

Duke University Press announces the development of a new pilot
electronic book product, the e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the development of a
new pilot electronic book product for trial during 2008. The
e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection will provide perpetual online
access to at least 100 new scholarly books published by Duke
University Press in the humanities and social sciences in a
calendar year. With the purchase of the current year's titles
in the e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection, libraries will also
receive access to all of the Press's backlist books now available
in electronic form.

The e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection will be hosted on the
ebrary platform, from which an unlimited number of simultaneous
users at a subscribing institution will be able to access
content. The content will be full-text searchable, along with any
other titles to which the institution has access via ebrary.
Additionally, Duke University Press has partnered with Duke
University's Perkins Library to provide full MARC cataloging,
including chapter-level metadata.

"The last several years have seen substantial changes in the
terrain of scholarly publishing," states Duke University Press
director Steve Cohn. "The shift to online publishing has
dramatically changed the way in which scholars perform research
and engage with the material we publish, while also substantially
reconfiguring the way in which libraries make their purchasing
decisions and allocate resources. Given today's climate, it was a
natural decision to move forward with the creation of an
electronic book collection. But just how to do that in practice
has required a great deal of thinking and talking, both
internally and with librarians and vendors."

The business model of the e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection
builds on that of the e-Duke Scholarly Journals Collection, which
evolved with much collaboration and feedback from the library
community. The e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection will feature a
similar library-friendly tiered pricing structure based on
Carnegie classifications and a very affordable print add-on
option that libraries will find attractive.

Undertaken with the guidance of Project Consultant and online
content and library market specialist October Ivins, the pilot
project (launching in January 2008) has been extended to a select
group of partner libraries. The goal of the project is to refine
the product according to actual practice, so that it fully meets
library needs when it is made available to the larger
institutional community in 2009. Thus Duke University Press will
be soliciting feedback from the pilot participants regarding
issues such as access, pricing, the site license, and vendor
preferences.

For more information about the e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection
pilot project, please visit
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/edukebooks.html> or contact
either Library Relations Manager Kimberly Steinle at
libraryrelations@dukeupress.edu or Sales Manager Michael
McCullough at mmccullough@dukeupress.edu.

About Duke University Press

Duke University Press publishes approximately 115 books annually
and more than 30 periodicals in a wide range of disciplines
within the humanities and sciences. In addition to the e-Duke
Scholarly Books Collection, the Press also offers the e-Duke
Scholarly Journals Collection, a set of 29 humanities and social
science journals hosted online by HighWire Press.

About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)

ebrary is a leading provider of eContent services and technology.
The company helps libraries, publishers, and other organizations
disseminate valuable information to end users while improving
end-user research and document interaction.

The company has developed a flexible eContent platform, which
customers may use in a number of integrated capacities: ebrary's
library customers may purchase or subscribe to eBooks and other
content under a variety of pricing and access models, and its
publisher customers may license the ebrary platform to
distribute, sell, and market their own content online, as Duke
University Press has done. 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 use information.

ebrary offers a growing selection of more than 120,000 eBooks and other
titles from more than 260 leading publishers and aggregators.

For four consecutive years, ebrary has been named to the eContent
100 list of 'companies that matter most' in the digital content
industry.

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

--
Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
905 West Main Street, Suite 18-B
Durham, NC 27701
919-687-3655 (ph) 919-688-3524 (fax)
ksteinle@dukeupress.edu
www.dukeupress.edu