"This has been a powerful partnership that puts libraries in the winning position," said Todd Fegan, Vice President of Publishing for ProQuest Information and Learning. "ProQuest not only connects Safari with libraries, making it easy for libraries to provide this information to their patrons, but we enable links from ProQuest databases to the rich content available in Safari, improving the research process."
"Safari Books Online provides an extremely valuable service to the technical community. Safari contains thousands of fully searchable electronic books from leading-edge author-experts on topics ranging from Ajax to the Zen of CSS," said Debra Woods, vice president of marketing for Safari Books Online. "ProQuest's value-added services in the library market combined with Safari's robust technical content provide library patrons an unparalleled business and learning tool."
Safari Books Online gathers in one spot the output of two well-known publishers of information technology (IT) books: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. and The Pearson Technology Group. O'Reilly is a premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. The Pearson Technology Group is the world's largest provider of consumer and professional computer, information technology, engineering, and reference content. Its imprints include Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, New Riders, Que and Sams.
ProQuest's Safari Tech Books Online library edition takes that rich database and applies special features to accommodate library users. These include an intuitive interface, budget-conscious FTE and Population served pricing models, and automatic updates of new content to keep pace with the fast-changing technology environment. In addition to consistent content updates, ProQuest has steadily improved the technology that supports it. In fact, mid-year 2006, the company launched a new portal that allows users to experience the same page layout (and rich, graphical content) as they would in examining a printed book. Additionally, the new portal lets users benefit from the search wisdom of others. As users type search terms, Safari will suggest -- in real time -- expressions from the most popular searches other users have entered.
Free trials of the Safari Tech Books Library Edition are available. Libraries can find more information online at proquest.com or by contacting their account representative at 1-800-521-0600.
