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Pluto Press
have being working with two organisations to make a selection of our titles
available in eBook format. Firstly through
The Academic Library and secondly through
NetLibrary.
The
Academic Library
“We have found The Academic Library extremely useful. It
has opened up electronic access to a whole range of material in the social
services for the first time.”
Glyn Price,
Technical Services Manager, LSE Library.
Pluto Press and
the Electronic Book Company have combined resources to launch
TheAcademicLibrary.com This project is an online library dedicated to selling
Pluto Press and other publishers’ eBooks to educational institutions and
librarians. A selection of Pluto Press titles published since 1999 are now
available through annual subscriptions to instititutions
Here are the
benefits of TheAcademicLibrary
No
limitations on user access.
Multiple readers can access the same book simultaneously.
Unlimited
print and text selection.
Libraries can
subscribe to already made collections of e-books specially put together
by
subject categories or pick and mix titles to produce their own
individually tailored collections of
eBooks.
Secure access
through IP address and/or Athens.
One of the
fastest and best featured search engines anywhere.
Reader-friendly PDF
(Adobe Acrobat) format means complete compatibility with paper versions
of the books — essential for research and reference.
User Friendly
eBooks with extensive apparatus of hyperlinks to chapter titles,
subheadings,
subject index and endnotes.
Search results
may be sorted by title, author or date of publication as well as by the number
of hits for each search term. Access to the texts themselves is by institutional
subscription only, but you can still peruse the lists before committing. Where
possible the books have links to publishers' websites, giving more information
on the texts and pricing for the paper or CD versions.
The Academic
Library currently offers four collections
put together by
subject categories. These are Classics in Political Economy;
Anthropology and Development Studies; Cultural and Media Studies, and Politics
and International Relations. Specific texts include Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’,
volumes I, II and III; Antonio Gramsci’s ‘Selections from the Prison
Notebooks’; Noam Chomsky’s ‘World Order, Old and New’; John Cooley’s ‘Unholy
Wars’, and Anthony Arnove ‘Iraq Under Siege’, to name but a few.
To access The
Academic Library please click on the logo
To find out
more about the work of the Electronic Book Company please go to
www.elecbook.com
Contacts:
To pick up your
password for a free testing of the service please contact:
Pat Coyne:
pat@elecbook.com
NetLibrary
Pluto Press
has been a partner of NetLibrary since 2001. Over 150 Pluto Press titles are
now available through NetLibrary. For more information on the titles they hold
and the company itself please go to
http://www.netlibrary.com
For more
information on Pluto’s eBook initiatives or details concerning subscriptions
to TheAcademicLibrary.com please contact
pluto@plutobooks.com
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