NetLibrary to offer Oxford Scholarship Online eBook titles

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA,  4 December 2007  – OCLC NetLibrary, the leading platform for eContent to libraries worldwide, will soon make available the individual eBook titles previously only available digitally through Oxford University Press’ Oxford Scholarship Online product (OSO).

Called "the Holy Grail of online resources" by the London School of Economics, OSO provides leading content for teaching and research. The most important scholarly books that Oxford University Press publishes in the humanities and social sciences will soon be accessible to NetLibrary users worldwide. Subject areas include Biology, Business/Management, Classics, Economics and Finance, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion.

Beginning in January 2008, NetLibrary will offer the titles found in OSO as individual eBooks for sale on the NetLibrary platform for libraries to select a la carte. Oxford University Press will continue to offer full collections of these titles through OSO.

"Oxford University Press is very excited to expand our ability to sell content in any form our customers want it—be that through our OSO product or the individual eBooks now available through OCLC NetLibrary," said Evan Schnittman, VP of Business Development at Oxford University Press.

"Oxford University Press offers superior content in a variety of subject areas that has always been particularly attractive to research and academic libraries worldwide. Now OCLC NetLibrary can enable libraries to select individual eBooks from Oxford University Press that were previously only available digitally in the Oxford Scholarship Online collections," said Chip Nilges, Vice President, OCLC Business Development.

About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 60,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world's richest online resource for finding library materials. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.

OCLC NetLibrary provides content and technical delivery solutions to institutional libraries, corporations and government agencies that facilitate the purchase, management and distribution of research, reference, digital learning and general interest content via Web-based technologies. NetLibrary's eContent solution is the most broadly adopted in the market, making more than 150,000 eBooks, 6,000 eJournals, 5,600 eAudiobooks, and 87 databases available through more than 15,000 libraries worldwide. For more information, visit www.oclc.org/netlibrary/.

About Oxford University Press
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