@article {Cooke:2017:1525-4011:39, title = "ProQuest Ebook Central", journal = "The Charleston Advisor", parent_itemid = "infobike://annurev/tca", publishercode ="annurev", year = "2017", volume = "19", number = "2", publication date ="2017-10-01T00:00:00", pages = "39-43", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "1525-4011", eissn = "1525-4003", url = "https://annurev.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/annurev/tca/2017/00000019/00000002/art00011", doi = "doi:10.5260/chara.19.2.39", author = "Cooke, Rachel", abstract = "ProQuest Ebook Central is an e-book database in which users can browse, find, and read e-books online. Libraries can purchase individual titles in several ways. Purchasing options include perpetual purchase, demand-driven acquisition, access-to-own, or short-term loan. Purchasing profiles can be customized to each librarys individual needs. ProQuests e-books are mostly titles from academic publishers. Navigation, retrieval, and reading in ProQuest is excellent and readers can bookmark, annotate, highlight, get citations, and share links easily. All library types will find this collection useful to their patrons. Previously purchased Ebrary, EBL, and MyiLibrary books can be migrated into the new platform.", }