The UL’s evidence-based (EBA) scheme with De Gruyter has been renewed for another calendar year, taking it through to the end of 2024. Funded jointly by the UL’s Collection and Academic Liaison (from the English and German budgets), it will give Cambridge readers unlimited, DRM-free access to approximately 120,500 titles. As well as the various De Gruyter imprints, there are nearly thirty partner presses who participate in the EBA, including Edinburgh University Press, Gorgias Press, and Princeton University Press, among others. Records for titles are loaded monthly by the ebooks@cambridge team.
The EBA has now been running since 2016. With each renewal, we pay a deposit, and at the end of the period of the agreement, we are given the usage statistics and can select titles up to the value of the deposit, which we will then own in perpetuity, regardless of whether or not we continue with the EBA. Each year, we are generally able to purchase between 700 and 800 titles for permanent access.
This selection process normally takes place at the start of the year, so we will be selecting titles based on 2023 usage in January or February of 2024. If there are any titles you would like to recommend for permanent access, please do get in touch with the English Collections team (engcc@lib.cam.ac.uk).
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