GVRL提供您从电子书想要的东西

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By Pat Coryell

As the Vice President and Publisher over GVRL, I focus my time immersed in market research, customer feedback, and user testing data to best understand the gaps and pain points in today’s eBook landscape, as well as identify the gains Gale might deliver to our library customers and users.

I’m often in problem-solving mode, as we and our customers across academic, public, and school libraries, take on the many challenges involved with shifting to meet evolving user needs brought about by changes in student/community demographics, differentiated learning styles, and the introduction of new technologies.

It was within this Ms. Fix-It frame-of-mind that I started to read “What I Want from Library Ebooks,” an opinion piece which was recently posted on Library Journal.

文章,由韦恩·毕文斯 - 塔图姆写,读取为了什么,他在完全支持他从印刷向数字转变的平台需要一个愿望清单。虽然他是专门针对学术图书馆的观众,他的很多表达的欲望很容易金宝搏彩票转化为公共和学校图书馆为好。

总括来说,这里的特性/功能,在笔者看来,缺乏在电子书景观:

  1. Unlimited Access
  2. DRM-Free Downloads
  3. 馆际互借
  4. 个人称号购买选项
  5. 合理的价格

通过注释的方式,读者志愿者像打印,灵活的购买模式,章级别的元数据,并集成了发现系统捆绑了几个标准。

My mood quickly shifted from problem-solving to problem: solved! I have great news for you Mr. Bivens-Tatum—the platform you seek is GVRL. GVRL resolves all but one (no ILL) of these pain points and more, giving you, as you request, the same benefits of print books电子书的好处。

Going point-by-point, GVRL offers:

  1. 无限的匿名访问。Unlimited simultaneous access is available to users 24/7 from any internet-connected device. Users are typically authenticated by IP only, so no named-user sign in is required.
  2. 无DRM限制。无DRM限制的PDF文件也可将内容保存下载没有限制,使用户能够方便地用于离线阅读。
  3. 个人/灵活的购买选项. There are currently more than 17,000 eBooks available on the GVRL platform from Gale and 120+ publishing partners, including both of those mentioned in the article,Springerand Oxford University Press. Titles are available for purchase个别地,as small collections/bundles, or as part of a usage-driven model, where you’re able to lease a full catalog of current titles, and buy only those which were accessed the most.
  4. 合理的价格:With so many titles to choose from across all of today’s leading research publishers, you’ll be able to find the content you need at the price you require and because you can buy à la carte, you can acquire as many or as few titles as your users demand. Volume discounts are also available. And for Gale titles, buying an eBook copy automatically qualifies you for 75% savings off the print edition.
  5. 在标题,章节和文章级别索引。One of the more unique features of GVRL is that all content is available in both HTML and PDF format, and is manually indexed down to the article-level so that we’re able to deliver the most comprehensive search results to the user.
  6. Access via Discovery Services.GVRL标题是通过所有的发现服务,包括ebrary公司和容易找到的EBSCOhost。MARC记录可添加到您的目录,以提高学生的认识和利用。除此之外,盖尔的专有金宝搏彩票互联技术通过将增加发现你的InfoTracperiodical resources, like金宝搏彩票学术OneFile,直接到你的电子书馆藏。

除了这些,用户工具的能力等浏览标题盖到覆盖,highlight, annotateand cite content easily within the research workflow, hear articles read aloud, and translate both the interface and content into dozens of other languages, GVRL easily delivers the best of both worlds—the ease-of-use of print with the bells and whistles of digital.

This is certainly not to say our work here is done—additional innovations and enhancements, like smartphone compatibility, are coming to GVRL in 2015. (Currently optimized for desktop and tablet viewing.)

但现在,看到自己GVRL如何有利于图书馆及其用户提供免费试用的访问,或请联系您的销售代表to learn more.

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帕特科里尔,副总裁兼发行在盖尔金宝搏彩票作为一个副总裁和出版商在大风,帕特科里尔通过专有出金宝搏彩票版和第三方合作伙伴带来的GVRL新标题的增长,开发全新的研究解决方案,并致力于更深入地配合我们的产品在课堂用户需求和结果。帕特是在学术和教育出版行业的领导者,已经开发了多种大学水平金宝搏彩票的,K-16,并在两端霍顿·米夫林·哈考特和剑桥大学出版社的所有学科英语教学方案在2014年7月加入大风之前,帕特持有金宝搏彩票硕士英美文学从宾夕法尼亚州立大学。

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