CONTOOCOOK, N.H., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- YBP Library Services, Inc. today announced the availability of fully customizable MARC records for all titles included in Oxford Scholarship Online eBook Collections. Oxford University Press initially launched Oxford Scholarship Online, a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of 2,556 Oxford books, in a subscription database in 2003, and added the perpetual purchase option in 2005. At least 450 new and recently-published books are added each year. YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company and the world's largest provider of materials to academic libraries, began offering Oxford Scholarship Online to its customers late last year.
Now, whether you choose to purchase one, two or all of the 16 available subject collections YBP can easily deliver cataloging for the content of those collections, including the new updates as released. "This eContent Cataloging Service enhances our extensive technical service offerings to libraries and consortia with the option of full and customized MARC records for all titles in the Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) library. At YBP, we continue our commitment to provide an unparalleled level of service and workflow support to our customers," said Mark Kendall Senior Vice President of Sales at YBP Library Services.
"Oxford University Press is pleased that YBP Library Services is able to provide this excellent service, enabling our mutual customers to more easily and quickly integrate Oxford Scholarship Online titles into library catalogs to ensure visibility to the end users," noted Rebecca Seger, Marketing and Sales Director, Oxford University Press. "Scholarly monographs are the foundation of the Oxford University Press publishing program and enabling the acquisition and cataloging of the e-versions to be more seamless to libraries is an essential development. YBP's eContent Cataloging Service is a perfect fit for our Oxford Scholarship Online Collection."
About YBP Library Services
YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company, provides books and supporting collection management and technical services to academic, research, and special libraries in North America and around the world. GOBI(R), YBP's online, interactive bibliographic information service, provides access to 2.0 million titles in an English-language database. YBP's corporate headquarters are in Contoocook, New Hampshire, USA. Further information about the company is available on their web site, www.ybp.com.
About Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press, Inc. (OUP-US) is affiliated with Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom (OUP-UK), a department of Oxford University. OUP, Inc is a nonprofit publisher and the largest university press in the US. OUP, Inc. publishes works that further Oxford University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship and education. OUP, Inc. has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing program that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, Bibles, music, school and college textbooks, business and economic books, online scholarly resource sites, dictionaries and reference books, and academic journals.
OUP, Inc. produces approximately 500 new titles a year, of which about half are scholarly research monographs, and imports close to 800 titles from OUP-UK and other branch offices around the world. OUP, Inc. has ~5,000 scholarly books in print and stocks another 8,700 import titles. All publications are first vetted by OUP delegates, who are leading scholars at Oxford University and other top US institutions.
Between its offices in New York City and the Research Triangle of North Carolina, OUP, Inc. employs close to 700 individuals in the US. The U.S. books garner numerous awards each year from academic and professional societies.
