Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) Framework Agreement - ProQuest Support Page: Welcome

• Ebook Central for new (and returning) users  - Watch the recording

• Tailoring LibCentral for your institution - Watch the recording

We can support you in your purchase of print books and ebooks through the following options:

• Lot 1: Library Print Books
• Lot 2: Library Ebooks

August 2022 Highlights:

1. 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.

2. Highest use subjects for Ebook Central in UKI and Europe. Ebooks continue to play a greater role in classroom support and overall student success – both on and off campus. Overall usage is growing and the ways students are using ebooks is evolving. Review data from our region's ebook usage trends, the print to electronic transition, and the most used ebooks titles – Get the report.                                           
3. New Sustainability Ebooks Collection and Offer. The new Sustainability Collection features 5,350 ebooks from a variety of publishers with availability in multiple licensing and buying models. All titles included in this Sustainability Collection speak to at least one of these three aspects of sustainability – social, economic, and environmental. To help your budget go further, over 1,500 titles are available 15% off (Offer ends 30 June 2022). If you’d like to learn more, please do not hesitate to speak to your Books Specialist or drop us an email.                               
4. Existing Books Offers. Our content team regularly work with publishing partners to bring you extra discounts and help you get more for your budget. Some of the latest offers include 15% Off Select Sustainability Titles and 25% Off Every Voice: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Select Titles - New Titles and Publishers. Take a look at our Ebook Offers page for the full details or get in touch with the team. We're here to help!                                                                                                                                                                                        
5. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) ebook subscription. We recently released the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Ebook Subscription and it's seen phenomenal demand. The subscription is designed to help libraries address the challenge of building collections across topics of gender, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, and political and religious beliefs. It includes thousands of titles from sought-after publishers all over the world. Ideal for remote and hybrid learning with unlimited, multi-user access. Contact us here to request a title list or free trial.

6. 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.  

7. 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.  

8. '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.