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OASIS & Rialto Services: Ebook/Streaming Video Setup Form and PubDirect Information

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Publisher Direct for OASIS and Rialto

To add publisher platforms to your OASIS marketplace, you can request access within OASIS. Navigate to the user menu on the upper righthand corner, then go to Platform Settings to choose which platform(s) you would like to access.

Rialto users can request access to platforms through the Rialto Ebook Profile form.

About Publisher Direct

ProQuest customers can add titles for purchase directly on publisher platforms to their OASIS and Rialto marketplaces for selection and acquisition efficiencies. Orders and invoices from multiple publishers can be viewed and tracked in either OASIS or Rialto saving staff time and minimizing manual work.

Most publisher platforms on OASIS and Rialto offer:

  • Electronic books and other digital media
  • DRM-Free on most of the content with no restrictions on downloads and printing
  • Perpetual acquisition
  • Unlimited concurrent user access (unlimited user license)
  • Title-by-title purchasing
  • Mobile-friendly user platform
  • Comparable pricing to purchase on publisher’s site

Torrossa Digital Library from Casalini Libri – New!

Torrossa is the full-text digital platform of Casalini Libri, distributing content from over 300 international publishers in subjects ranging from ancient history to archaeology, from cinema to architecture, from philology to philosophy, from psychology to law, many of which cannot be found elsewhere.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: Unlimited Access
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at https://content.torrossa.com/

Highlights:

  • 65,000+ ebooks available for title-by-title purchasing
  • Specializing in Spanish and Italian Humanities and Social Sciences content 

Regional Restrictions: Not available in Italy

Cairn International

Cairn.info offers the most comprehensive online collection of francophone ebooks in the social sciences and humanities with all major French-language publishers represented. Cairn’s ebook aggregation platform features titles not found on any other platform. 

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at cairn-int.info.

Highlights:

  • Only French language content
  • Front list and backlist titles available

Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core is the home of academic content from Cambridge University Press, one of the most prestigious academic publishers in the world. Cambridge Core is the place to find valuable, useful and inspirational research and academic information.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at cambridge.org/core

Highlights:

  • Mostly English with content available in other European languages
  • Newly redesign online platform

EBSCO eBook

EBSCO offers a wide selection of academic e-books from top publishers and presses. Browse academic e-book collections curated by librarians and experience convenient integration with EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service™.

  • Content type: electronic books
  • Licensing: single user, three user, concurrent 365, nonlinear, unlimited, 
  • Commercial models: Perpetual, DDA

Learn more at ebscohost.com/ebooks

Highlights:

  • Over 200,000 DRM-Free titles
  • Acquisition options include CAM (Concurrent Access Model) along with one user, three user and unlimited user.
  • Subject sets, featured and custom collections options for collection development.
  • Collection management and usage reports available through easy-to-use management tools.

Regional Restrictions – Not available in the UK

Gale eBooks (Only for US & Canada)

Gale eBooks is a visually engaging eBook platform that allows users to cross-search authoritative monographs on multidisciplinary subjects. The platform recreates the traditional research experience in a format that’s familiar, intuitive, and designed with researchers in mind.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: Platform fees are assessed at the building or district level and recur annually.

Learn more at Gale eBooks

Highlights:

  • 15,000+ ebooks available for title-by-title purchase
  • Available in the United States and Canada
  • Browse Gale eBooks for academic libraries here

John Benjamins e-Platform

John Benjamins is an independent academic publisher specializing in content related to Language and Linguistics, Translation Studies, Cognitive Science, Philosophy and more.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at John Benjamins e-Platform

Highlights:

  • 4,000 ebooks available for title-by-title purchase
  • John Benjamins publications are selected under expert academic editorship and peer-review
  • Strong focus on linguistics and other language-related subjects
  • Global in subjects, authors, and editors

Manchester University Press: ManchesterHive

Manchester University Press is known globally for high-quality publications in the humanities and social sciences, featuring both well-known authors and up-and-coming scholars from around the world. MUP’s digital books are delivered via their platform, ManchesterHive

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at ManchesterHive

Highlights:

  • 2,000+ ebooks available for title-by-title purchase 
  • Manchester University Press is one of the largest university presses in the UK
  • Titles average 15-20 awards per year
  • Authors include award winning scholars, international journalists and emerging writers with distinctive voices

Project MUSE

Founded in 1995 at Johns Hopkins University, Project MUSE is a not-for-profit collaboration created to disseminate quality scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to meet the needs of both libraries and publishers around the world. Project MUSE offers thousands of electronic books from more than 100 distinguished scholarly publishers.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none for active accounts

Learn more at muse.jhu.edu

Highlights:

  • Content is primarily English, but there currently are books in 12 languages. French is second most common language.
  • Once content goes online in MUSE, it stays online, permanently

Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library

The R2 Digital Library is a constantly-updated database available from Rittenhouse Book Distributors. It offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: single user
  • Platform annual fee: yes, after first 12 months

Learn more at r2library.com

  • Titles include medical and health content exclusive to Rittenhouse
  • Includes content from Springer and Doody’s Core Titles

SAGE Knowledge

Thousands of carefully selected titles by world-class authors on hot topics across the social sciences including academic and supplementary titles, foundational books in core areas of research and debate, accessible student reference, and numerous practical professional titles in education.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: yes, varies by number of ebooks

Learn more at sk.sagepub.com/books

Highlights:

  • Front list titles added as published

Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis eBooks is a single destination platform with a vast collection of eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at tandfonline.com/page/librarians

Highlights

  • Vast title selection with thousands of new titles published annually
  • Includes titles from Routledge, CRC Press and other imprints
  • Access chapter by chapter

Unebook

Unebook is the e-distributor for all books, monographs and content published by members of the Spanish Association of University Presses (UNE) and other independent and institutional academic presses from Spain and Latin America. 

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: Single User.
  • Platform fee: None

Learn more at https://www.unebook.es/es/

Highlights:

  • 20,000+ ebooks available for title-by-title purchasing
  • Primarily focuses on Humanities and Social Sciences content in Spanish
  • Unebook was launched in 2014 and maintains a digital catalogue of more than 23,000 titles from 185 imprints
  • Unebook is the sole e-distributor with a complete catalog of all Spanish university presses.

World Scientific

World Scientific Publishing collaborates with prestigious organizations like the Nobel Foundation and US National Academies Press to bring high quality academic and professional content to researchers and academics worldwide. The company publishes about 600 books annually in various fields.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at worldscientific.com

Highlights:

  • Wide range of subjects covered from Asian studies to Social Sciences
  • Nobel Prize winning authors featured

Alexander Street

Alexander Street pairs exclusive content with the latest technology to create cutting-edge streaming video and DVDs to transform the way people research, learn, and teach in virtually every discipline.

  • Content type: streaming video and DVD only
  • Licensing: unlimited access, 1 year, 3 year and perpetual
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at www.alexanderstreet.com

Highlights:

  • Public performance rights included
  • Streaming videos include scrolling and searchable transcripts for accessibility
  • Mostly English with content in Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and more.

Brill Publishing

Founded in 1683 and headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher with a focus on the humanities, social sciences, international law and select areas in the sciences. 

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at brill.com.

Highlights:

  • Rich backlist catalog representing over 300 years of scholarly publishing
  • Patrons can cross-search Brill ebooks with the Brill journals in a library's collection

Bloomsbury Collections

Bloomsbury Collections offers excellence and originality in scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Bloomsbury Collections contributes innovative and forward-thinking scholarship to the global academic community. 

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at www.bloomsburycollections.com

Highlights:

  • Prestigious imprints include The Arden Shakespeare, Methuen Drama, T & T Clark,
    and I.B. Tauris
  • Optimized for mobile

De Gruyter

De Gruyter has been an independent scholarly publisher since 1749. Headquartered in Berlin, De Gruyter annually publishes over 1,000 new titles in the humanities, social sciences, technology, science, medicine and law.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at degruyter.com

Highlights:

  • English and German content
  • Titles from 260 years of publishing

Ebook Central

Ebook Central is ProQuest’s modern ebook experience to support librarians and researchers bringing together more than 2.2 million ebooks, from more than 1,300 publishers from around the world.

  • Content type: electronic books
  • Licensing: single user, three user, concurrent 365, nonlinear, unlimited, 
  • Commercial models: Perpetual, DDA, ATO, STL, and EBA

Learn more at proquest.com/ebookcentral

Highlights:

  • Flexible purchase models include subscriptions, Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) and Access-To-Own (ATO)
  • Over 320,000 DRM-Free titles
  • License models include 1 user, 3 user, unlimited, and non-linear
  • Highly rated patron platform provides tools to support research needs
  • Wealth of data in librarian platform provides real-time usage reports, expenditure analytics, selection, acquisition, and administration tools

Elsevier ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications featuring smart tools, deep insights on topics, and access to high-impact and topical ebooks, ScienceDirect helps researchers gain knowledge, generate more ideas and answer their most pressing questions in less time.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at sciencedirect.com

Highlights:

  • Content in English, French, Spanish and German, as well as some local language titles.
  • Leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
  • Backfiles provide access to leading scientific research from before 1995

IGI Global

Headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, IGI Global is a leading international academic publisher committed to facilitating the discovery of pioneering research that enhances and expands the body of knowledge available to the research community. Working in close collaboration with expert researchers and professionals worldwide, IGI Global has disseminated vetted quality content for over 30 years.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at igi-global.com

Highlights:

  • Over 300 reference books added annually

JSTOR

JSTOR offers over 115,000 ebooks from more than 300 academic publishers, including university presses, public policy organizations, and independent presses.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none
  • Commercial models: Perpetual, DDA

Learn more at about.jstor.org/librarians/books

Highlights:

  • All ebook chapters are available exclusively in a DRM-free, unlimited-user model. They work just like the journal articles on JSTOR, with unlimited simultaneous use, PDF downloads, and printing, and no need to log in or use special software.
  • The ebook chapters are integrated with journal articles on JSTOR’s platform, making it easy for users to cross-search all types of content in their existing discovery workflows.
  • JSTOR offers tiered savings based on each institution’s size and JSTOR Archive Collection participation. Prices in OASIS and Rialto automatically reflect each institution’s savings.

Karger

Karger Publishers in Basel, Switzerland, is a globally active medical and scientific publishing company dedicated to serving the information needs of the scientific community with publications of high-quality content, covering all fields of medical science. Karger content provides a strong focus on basic and clinical research with a commitment to global transfer of knowledge.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at karger.com

Highlights:

  • 300 front-list titles plus 2 large collections and 5 sub-collections
  • Content mainly English language with archived titles in original language

Ovid

Wolters Kluwer Ovid helps researchers, librarians, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals find important medical information on a market-leading medical research platform. Ovid ebooks inform critical decisions to improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries.

  • Content type: electronic books
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at Books @Ovid.

Highlights:

  • Nearly 2,000 titles from Lippencott imprint
  • Scholarly and core clinical titles
  • User friendly responsive design of platform

Oxford University Press (UPSO)

Oxford University Press launched University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO), a ground-breaking online library bringing works from the world’s best university presses onto a single, easy-to-use resource. 

  • Content type: electronic books
  • Licensing:1 user, 3 users, and unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at universitypressscholarship.com

Highlights:

  • 20 acclaimed university presses contribute to UPSO

Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Books combine quality content with the convenience, accessibility and enhanced functionality of electronic access. Discover premier titles from the most celebrated scientists, award-winning authors and renowned researchers in the life, health, and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

  • Content type: ebooks
  • Licensing: unlimited access, DRM-Free
  • Platform annual fee: none

Learn more at onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Highlights:

  • License models include single, multi-user and unlimited
  • Partners with more than 800 scientific and scholarly societies