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Three New Customers Choose ebrary’s Content Hosting Services
August 10, 2009 – Palo Alto, CA, USA – ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products
and technologies, today announced that Wellesley College, DuocUC, and Jodrell Bank Centre for
Astrophysics have selected its affordable and flexible content hosting services to distribute a
variety of digitized materials online, hassle-free.
• Wellesley College is preserving a number of heavily used texts that are out of print,
damaged, or brittle for anytime, anywhere access by their students, professors, and staff.
• DuocUC, a non-profit institute of higher education established by Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile, will archive over 500 Spanish-language theses published 2008 and
later in a broad range of subject areas including business and administration, computing,
construction, health, natural resources, technology, telecommunications, and tourism.
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Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester (UK) will make
academic papers, informational items, posters, and other proceedings from a 2010
conference it is hosting freely available to academics and the public.
“We were searching for an affordable way to make our materials freely and easily accessible to
the academic community and any other interested parties,” said Dr. Christopher Wareing FRAS, a
Research Fellow at the University of Leeds involved with the 2010 conference hosted by Jodrell
Bank Centre for Astrophysics. “ebrary fulfills this need and more, with sophisticated tools for
users to discover, retrieve, and manage the information.”
“Hosted services are increasing in popularity for many libraries, corporations, and other
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maintenance and support,” said Christopher