"eBooks on Demand" at the National Library
Bern, 03.06.2010 - The Swiss National Library (NL) now offers a digitisation on request service for out of copy-right books. This new paid service is known as "eBooks on Demand" (EOD). The NL already lists more than 100,000 books available for digitisation, which can be provided as a PDF to customers.
For example, M. Hornsby’s "The Viège Zermatt Railway" (1900), which had been available to visitors only in the library’s reading room, is among the works now made more accessible thanks to "eBooks on Demand", the NL’s digitisation service. To date, more than 100,000 books (mainly older publications, since only they are not under copyright) are available on request in digitised form, and can be delivered to users as an e-mail attachment, or by post on a CD.
Such works are marked in the online catalogue Helveticat (www.nb.admin.ch/helveticat) with the EOD symbol, which serves as a link to the order form. Submitting a form triggers an invoice; once this is paid, the reader receives the eBook. On request, for a small supplement, a paperback may also be supplied.
"eBooks on Demand" is a project of the NL and over 20 other libraries in ten European countries (www.books2ebooks.eu).
Address for enquiries
Liliane Regamey, Head User Services
Swiss National Library
Tel. 031 322 89 46
liliane.regamey@nb.admin.ch
Publisher
Swiss National Library
http://www.nb.admin.ch
