Our academic library consortium CARLI has negotiated a multi-publisher program that allows e-books to be shared among all CARLI library users in Illinois. The program provides over 29,000 titles in all disciplines; the publisher list is included at the end of this message.
Catalog records for these titles are available in our local catalog and the I-Share catalog. You may also visit the CARLI eBook website to access the titles directly. You will be prompted to authenticate, whether or not you are on campus, to enable tracking of circulations. These e-books have a 7 day loan period and users can view content online, download and print. Once a title has been used 9 times, it is purchased by CARLI for permanent use by all libraries.
This pilot program comes as part of our CARLI governing library membership and follows months of negotiations by the CARLI staff. Shared consortial e-book programs are still quite unusual, as publishers are leery of this changing marketplace. The library faculty look forward to your feedback on this program. If you have comments to share, please contact Karen Schmidt, University Librarian.
Publishers include:
· Bloomsbury Academic
· CABI
· Diplomica
· Edinburgh University Press
· Guilford Publications
· Indiana University Press
· Jessica Kingsley Publishers
· John Benjamins Publishing
· McGraw-Hill International UK
· Morgan & Claypool
· Princeton University Press
· Sage Publications
· University of California Press
· University of North Carolina Press
· Zed Books