We are delighted to have been ranked highly in every print and ebook category we were selected onto for the Joint Consortia Framework Agreement.
You will have access to the industry’s best and broadest book offering, spanning more than 39 million print titles and over 2 million ebooks. We also offer the most expansive range of acquisition models on our industry leading ebook platform – Ebook Central. Print fulfillment will be managed through our renowned distribution centre in Ringwood, UK, which provides a number of customised services including shelf ready books.
On this page you'll find the information you need to get started on OASIS and Ebook Central and also a range of support tools to guide you. For full details of the Framework, visit the SUPC page by clicking here.
To start ordering print and ebooks, contact your Books Sales Specialist (details below).
Books Week 2021! We were delighted to host our popular Books Week again in June. Over 4 days, and 5 virtual sessions, we heard from the Books teams at ProQuest and learnt from library and industry professionals. We discussed the latest industry trends from this last year, shared upcoming product and platform developments and spoke to publishers and industry partners about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and how to make content accessible for all. We saw hundreds of you join us and we now look forward to continuing to support you and your institution as you face new challenges and opportunities in this ever changing world. Watch all of the session on-demand, anytime, anywhere here.
Stay tuned for details on upcoming webinars.
August 2022 Highlights:
The New OASIS Search Experience – launched 19th March. The new search experience in OASIS makes your acquisition experience faster and easier than ever before. We encourage all OASIS users to test out the new Advanced Search and Search Results pages in the play site and use the “feedback” tab within the interface to share your thoughts. For more information, watch the recording of the demo discussing the new enhancements.
What’s New in Academic Complete? In 2020, your Academic Complete subscription grew 6% with over 11,760 titles added across multiple disciplines. Even after the in-cycle title removals in June 2021, we have added over 21,200 titles into your Academic Complete subscription. Click here to learn more and to request a title list of what’s been added.
All of the latest ebook offers. We still have a great range of ebook offers available for your library including: Every Voice: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion - 25% Off Select Scholarly Titles, 20% Off Penguin Random House Select Titles and E Now: 50% Off E when you own the Print. For all of the details on these offers, click here or speak directly to your Books Sales Specialist.
'In the Shadows' - the latest in the blog series. The first university press, Cambridge, dates to the 16th century – 1534. One more century and Oxford came next, in 1668. Much later, a few others were born in the 19th century. Nearly all the rest came about in the 20th. So, for a university press to begin in the 21st century, there’s a lot of ground to make up. Nobody understands this better than Alison Shaw, CEO of Bristol University Press (BUP), who knows there’s the “need to stand out in some way given the large amount of competition with the impossibly large behemoths dominating the industry.” “From tiny beginnings,” however, says Shaw, “good things can grow.” Continue reading the latest post in the series here.
We were delighted to host our popular Books Week again in June. Over 4 days, and 5 virtual sessions, we heard from the Books teams at ProQuest and learnt from library and industry professionals. We discussed the latest industry trends from this last year, shared upcoming product and platform developments and spoke to publishers and industry partners about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and how to make content accessible for all. We saw hundreds of you join us and we now look forward to continuing to support you and your institution as you face new challenges and opportunities in this ever changing world. Watch all of the session on-demand, anytime, anywhere here.
Wolters Kluwer Ovid is the latest addition to the growing list of publisher-direct options available for acquisition. Ovid, the world’s most trusted medical research platform, has been a vital part of healthcare for over 20 years. Ovid’s flagship platform is the leading choice globally among clinicians, researchers, educators and students in the medical, scientific and academic fields.
We are excited to announce that Penguin Random House titles are now available to academic libraries on the Ebook Central platform. Penguin Random House's robust title list brings books and ideas to academic classrooms with thousands of titles supporting courses in disciplines including Business & Economics, Humanities & Social Sciences, Professional Studies, Science, Technology, and Engineering & Mathematics.
Bloomsbury Collections ebooks covering the arts, humanities and social sciences is the latest publisher native (or publisher direct) platform available for OASIS and Rialto libraries. Let customer service or your Books Specialist know if you'd like to have Bloomsbury's 10,000 ebooks activated for search and acquisition.
Delighted to welcome McGraw Hill and Open University Press (part of McGraw-Hill) to Ebook Central. McGraw Hill is one of the world’s largest educational companies and a trusted and iconic brand that students and professionals depend on to meet the demanding educational needs of a rapidly changing world. Core subject areas include: Business; Engineering; Sciences; Psychology; Computing; Business Statistics; Humanities & Social Sciences.
Open University Press is a trusted publisher specialising in education, health and social work, research and study skills, psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, and coaching. Open University Press titles focus on current issues and challenges, research findings and their application, ideas for teaching, and many other topics and are authored by foremost scholars and internationally recognised experts that support life-long learning for students, academics and practitioners.
Founded in 1683, Brill is a scholarly publisher with a rich history and a strong international focus. Brill’s publications focus on the humanities and social sciences, international law, and selected areas in the sciences. Over 19,000 ebooks from Brill are ready to add to your OASIS or Rialto marketplace catalogue as a publisher direct (or publisher native) platform.
Taylor and Francis was founded in London in 1852 and is one of the world’s leading academic publishers. As one of the top five research publishers globally, Taylor and Francis focus on advance knowledge across humanities and social sciences, science and technology, engineering, medicine and healthcare.
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Anne Theurier – Collections & workflow
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Fiona Petherick - Cataloguing, Configuration and New Titles Manager
Fiona Rundle - Global Customer Service and Administration Manager
Jackie Stringer - Senior Product Sales Manager
James Young - Product Sales Manager for the East of England
Laura Nixon - Manager, Customer Care
Lynette (Lyn) Hawke - Senior Customer Care Advisor BU Mgmt - LUPC, NOWAL
Natasa Starovic - Content and Workflow Strategy Consultant, Team Lead. London and Kent, Southwest
Natasha (Tash) Edmonds - EMEA Director Books
Sara Fitch - Senior Customer Care Advisor - SUPC, British Council
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