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Overview
ProQuest is the only ebook provider to offer a comprehensive, aggregated ebook subscription in science and technology. With ProQuest's Science & Technology Ebook Subscription, libraries can offer anytime, anywhere access to more than 30,100 librarian-selected titles* in a diverse range of topics such as chemistry, physics, math, geology, geography, IT, computer science, gaming, engineering, agriculture, environmental studies, natural history, medicine, and more. The subscription provides an affordable base collection that helps researchers in many areas of study improve outcomes and develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in rapidly evolving areas of study.
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It includes ebooks from more than 110 university presses
MIT Press, Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, Amsterdam University Press, UBC Press, Leiden University Press, and Cambridge University Press are among them.
Many other renowned publishers contribute to the subscription
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, American Water Works Association, IGI Global, Taylor & Francis, PennWell Corporation, Elsevier, IEEE, Packt Publishing, Artech House, and No Starch Press are among them.
It includes many award winners
This subscription features a growing selection of more than 1,600 CHOICE, RCL and Doody’s award winning titles.
This subscription includes unique Wiley content
Doody’s and RCL award winners “Introductory Biostatistics (2016),” and “Equine Wound Management (2016),” and RCL award winner, “Chromatography: Principles and Instrumentation (2016),” are among the Wiley titles only available in subscription through ProQuest.
It helps libraries build their ebook collections strategically
Many libraries use our ebook subscriptions as their base, then strategically supplement them with titles acquired under other models such as Demand-driven Acquisition (DDA), Perpetual Access (PA), Short-term Loan (STL) and our proprietary Access-to-Own (ATO) based on usage.
It is affordably priced with unlimited, multi-user access and continued growth
All ProQuest ebook subscriptions offer unlimited access, continue to grow, and are affordably priced based on full-time equivalent students. If libraries were to purchase every title in this subscription under a single user perpetual access model it would cost more than $3.2M.
It’s delivered on the Ebook Central Platform built for research
Ebook Central offers DRM-free chapter downloads, bookshelves, annotating and other features that enhance the research experience and improve outcomes. ProQuest is also the only ebook provider that offers both session and user-based usage data with Patron Analytics.
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This subscription is a subset of Academic Complete, which includes around 150,000 ebooks from renowned publishers including a growing number of unique Wiley titles. Trusted by libraries worldwide, Academic Complete offers complimentary technologies for driving discovery.
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