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E-books

About the Emory Libraries ebook collections available to Emory students, faculty, and staff

E-Book Additions and Developments

Content

  • 2024-present University of Hawaii and Harvard University Press titles will be available on the DeGruyter platform. All titles are in LibrarySearch.
  • In April 2024, the Emory Libraries will be adding new packages from Springer-Palgrave (History, Social Sciences, Psychology, Literature and Culture Studies, Economics and Finance, and Political Science and International Relations). In addition, we will be administering three subscription packages to Springer-Palgrave content (2021-2024) for Mathematics and Statistics, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Intelligent Systems and Robotics. All titles are in Library Search.
  • The Emory Libraries recently joined and contributed to two open access initiatives from MIT Press (Direct to Own) and University of Michigan (Mission to Fund), which have the stated goal of making future titles from these two publishers open access. By contributing, Emory gains courtesy e-access to backlist content from each publisher, available on their respective MIT Open and Fulcrum platforms, respectively.
  • We continue to add open access titles, with no DRM or restrictions to the catalog, including peer-reviewed content in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) from a variety of publishers and aggregators. Another great place to consider is Unglue.It, which is a crowd-sourced initiative for funding the "opening" of e-book content under a creative commons license.

Litigation

  • Recent notable cases for making e-book content more accessible and equitable to patrons include bills in Maryland, Massachusetts and New York. There has been some notable pushback from some organizations, such as the Association of American Publishers (AAP).