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Marcel Dekker Partners With NetLibrary To Publish Hundreds of Scientific,
Technical, and Medical Texts Online
NEW YORK-Nov. 11, 1999-In response to increased demand
from scholars and professionals for easily accessible Internet-based
texts, publisher Marcel Dekker Inc. and eBook provider NetLibrary Inc.
today announced a partnership to offer nearly 500 scientific, technical,
and medical eBook titles on the Internet.
The Dekker titles comprise frequently referenced works in the subject
areas of medicine, life science, engineering, chemistry, mathematics and
statistics, agriculture, food science and technology, library and information
science, and public administration. Dekker's eBooks will be available
directly to consumers at the NetLibrary website and to library patrons at
hundreds of public, university, and special libraries in the NetLibrary network.
"Researchers want more than just quality information--they want
information that's easy to access, search, and use," said Dekker Chief
Operating Officer David Dekker. "With NetLibrary, readers are getting the
easiest way to use Dekker's reference material."
At the NetLibrary website, readers can search eBooks by subject, author,
title, or by a key word search of every word in every eBook in the NetLibrary
collection. Once readers find what they are looking for, they can borrow or
purchase eBooks, download them to their hard drives, make notes, and highlight
and print selections from the digital text.
"Internet-based eBooks are revolutionizing the way people gather and use
information through anytime/anywhere access and multimedia functionality," said
NetLibrary President and Chief Executive Officer Timothy R. Schiewe. "The
partnership between NetLibrary and Marcel Dekker represents an advancement in both
the quality and quantity of eBooks available to readers on the Internet."
Marcel Dekker (www.dekker.com) is a privately
held, international firm specializing in scientific, technical, and medical publishing.
Dekker has an active list of approximately 3,000 titles and publishes 80 scholarly
periodicals. In addition to the nearly 500 eBooks it will publish with NetLibrary,
Dekker's online program includes "Dekker e-Pubs," searchable full-text versions of
its journals. The company is headquartered in New York City and maintains offices
in Monticello, New York, and Basel, Switzerland.
NetLibrary (www.NetLibrary.com) integrates the convenience, access, and capabilities
of the Web with the familiarity and depth of content patrons experience today at their
local or university library. Boulder, Colo.-based NetLibrary has signed agreements with
more than 80 leading publishers of trade, scholarly, academic, and reference books,
including Harvard Business Press, ABC-CLIO, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University
Press, Grove's Dictionaries Inc., Houghton-Mifflin, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. UK, The
McGraw-Hill Companies, The MIT Press, O'Reilly and Associates, and now, Marcel Dekker Inc.,
to provide readers with an extensive selection of trade, scholarly, reference, and professional
books in electronic format.
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