Penn State users have access to two e-book trial subscriptions through Dec. 31 — eBooks on EBSCO and ebrary. Each subscription has over 200,000 titles offering unlimited access. EBSCO collections include Academic, Business, History, Religion, Clinical, Engineering Core, and University Presses subscriptions, while ebrary has Academic Complete, College Complete, Public Library Complete, and University Presses subscriptions.

These trials are currently being promoted on the Libraries’ homepage feature, which links to the E-Book Collections Guide, and are also available under the Databases tab. Since these are a trial, the e-books are not accessible in LionSearch.

The subscriptions are coordinated by PALCI (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. http://www.palci.org/).  Jaime Jamison and Barbara Coopey are members of the PALCI ebooks Task Force.

– submitted by Barbara Coopey, Access Services