eBook Acquisition Models

With the Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) purchase option, you decide on your acquisitions based on usage data after a 12-month access period. This is an effective way to expand your library's collection while retaining full control over your purchasing decisions.

How does EBA work?

1. Select a Custom Package: Our team will work with you to create a list of titles ideally suited for your institution. We offer a wide range of options to meet your specific requirements. You can choose titles from our comprehensive packages or English-only packages.
2. Access Period: Upon payment of the EBA fee, we activate your package for 12 months and provide you with the relevant metadata. Your users will then have access to all selected content for a year. During this time, you will receive regular usage statistics, such as COUNTER data. New titles are automatically added to your package, and we can supply the updated metadata sets on a monthly basis if needed.
3. Title Purchase: At the end of the year, we will provide you with final usage statistics, detailed bibliographic information, and pricing. Based on this data, you have 90 days to determine which titles to purchase. Our Sales Teams are available to assist with the evaluation of the usage statistics. The administrative fee for the EBA trial will be credited towards your purchases.

What are the benefits of EBA?

• 12 month access: Acquire 12 months of access to all eBooks on our platform or select specific titles in one of our attractive packages. At the end of the 12-month period, you decide which titles to retain.
• Liberal DRM: Benefit from liberal, multi-user, remote-access DRM. In addition to the standard PDF versions, you also receive all available ePub versions.
• Unlimited access: Get unlimited access to our eBook portfolio, including titles from our imprints and selected Publisher Partners such as Columbia University Press and Harvard University Press.
• Automatic updates: Benefit from automatic additions of new publications to your EBA access at no additional cost.
• Effortless data management: We offer monthly customized MARC records, targets for indexing partners and COUNTER usage reports.
• Usage report: At the end of the EBA period, we provide a comprehensive usage report to assist with your title selection.

De Gruyter Brill’s eBook collections provide your patrons with access to the latest research from around 30 academic fields. If you would like more detailed information about our packages, pricing and available flexible purchase options, our Sales team is happy to help!

The degruyterbrill.com platform offers access to over 250.000 high-quality eBooks, including 3.500 new titles from De Gruyter Brill each year and approximately 5.000 titles from our Publisher Partners. With around 10.000 open access books, we are also one of the largest independent publishers of open access resources globally. Our extensive catalog contains monographs, edited volumes, textbooks and online resources, ensuring a comprehensive range of suitable content to meet the diverse needs of your users.

The De Gruyter Brill Book Archive offers libraries an unprecedented opportunity to unlock centuries of academic heritage. Bringing together the complete backlists of two of the world’s most respected academic publishers — De Gruyter and Brill — and numerous renowned imprints, this archive provides access to digital versions of thousands of scholarly works dating back to 1683.

 

Of course you can also purchase individual titles to enhance and supplement your existing collection. Our eBooks are grouped into seven categories with fixed prices per category. Contact our sales for our most recent pricing list for individual titles.