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CARLI to Purchase Springer Medicine eBook Collection

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CARLI is pleased to announce the purchase of the Springer Medicine eBook Collection for all Governing and Associate members. Access to the collection will begin in January 2010. The Springer Medicine Collection will replace the Mary Ann Liebert journals when subsidized access to those journals ends in December 2009. The purchase of the Medicine collection was recommended by the CARLI Health Sciences Advisory Group, which was charged with reviewing products to replace the Liebert journals.

The Medicine Collection includes all English/International titles published by Springer from 2005 through 2010. The collection currently includes more than 1,300 titles with an additional 325 titles anticipated for inclusion in 2010. The full list of titles in the Medicine Collection, as well as other Springer eBook collections is available on the Springer web site.

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CARLI staff are working on the license agreement and reviewing options for acquiring and loading MARC bibliographic records for these collections. Bibliographic records for these collections are available from both Springer and OCLC. CARLI will announce more details about those data in the near future.

In related news, CARLI member libraries have also met the threshold required for the Springer Complete English/International eBook Collection, their full set of 2005-2010 imprints. So the proposed pricing on this full collection of more than 19,000 titles will be available to all committed participants.

Both the Medicine and full collections are one-time purchases with guaranteed perpetual access to the content, no future hosting fees and no annual subscription costs. Springer does not enforce Digital Rights Management (DRM) for these eBook collections, which allows unlimited printing and emailing for scholarly purposes, and inclusion in non-commercial materials.

For more information about the Springer Medicine Collection or to find out more about the full eBook offer, contact support@carli.illinois.edu.

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