ebrary Launches Complimentary E-book Database for Knowledge Managers

“ebrary has long provided librarians with complimentary access to resources relevant to their community,” said Kevin Sayar, President of ebrary. “Now that we have developed products and services for the corporate and government markets, we wanted to include information that can be useful to knowledge managers as well.”

New titles added to ebrary’s Library & KM Center include the following:

• Knowledge Management : An Evolutionary View, by Irma Becerra-Fernandez and Dorothy Leidner (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008)
• Engaged Knowledge Management : Engagement with New Realities, by Kevin C. Desouza and Yukika Awazu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
• Practical Guide to Knowledge Management, by Sue Brelade and Christopher Harman (Thorogood, 2003)
• Sharing Expertise : Beyond Knowledge Management, by Mark S. Ackerman, Volkmar Pipek, and Volke Wulf (MIT Press, 2003)
• Knowledge Management Systems for Business, by Robert J. Thierauf (Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 1999)

ebrary offers corporations and government organizations a number of integrated products and services including full-text e-book, handbooks, manuals and other trusted content in key business and engineering subject areas. The company also offers content hosting services, which turn corporate PDF documents of any type into searchable and highly interactive databases. All ebrary products and services feature powerful research capabilities including InfoTools, which turns every word into a portal to additional knowledge within the organization and on the web. For more information visit http://www.ebrary.com/corp/corporations.jsp.

Additionally, ebrary’s products and services can easily be integrated within corporate intranets. To see an example of how ebrary uses its own system to enhance its intranet visit http://corp.ebrary.com/corp/demo/km/.

Meet ebrary at KM World

ebrary will be demonstrating its full suite of content products and technologies at KM World, November 17-19, in San Jose California (Booth #121). To schedule a one-on-one meeting, please email sales@ebrary.com.

About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)

ebrary helps libraries, corporations, publishers, and consumers get the most out of their digital content. The company offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other valuable content from over 350 of the world’s leading publishers under flexible subscription, purchase, and usage-based models. Additionally, ebrary offers e-publishing services for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online on ebrary’s servers or their own.

All ebrary products and services can be integrated and delivered via a single easy-to-use interface that includes powerful tools for finding, discovering, and managing information. With ebrary InfoTools™, every word in the ebrary system is a network to other online resources of the customers’ choice, extending their value while increasing end-user knowledge and efficiencies.

Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Wagner Communications
Tish Wagner, +1-707-963-2035 (Media)
tish.wagner@ebrary.com