Belleville, Ontario, June 15, 2015 – Loyalist
College is pleased to announce that The Parrott Centre has launched the
first two collections in the Colleges eBook Consortium Project, a joint
endeavour of 22 Ontario Colleges.

The EBSCO Academic eBooks and College Complete eBooks
(ProQuest/ebary) collections offer more than 168,000 titles, including
8,000 recently published titles (2013/2014), and 2,000 French language
titles. The Loyalist College community has unlimited access to all
titles, regardless of the number of concurrent users.

Going forward, additional collections of eBooks will be added to the
core collection and the product mix may change based on evolving user
needs and product availability.

The Colleges eBook Consortium Project is an initiative of the Ontario
Colleges’ Heads, Libraries and Learning Resources (HLLR) and is managed
by Ontario Colleges Library Services (OCLS). 

In other news, the Library recently subscribed to the Ovid Nursing
Collection. The Ovid package contains Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
(LWW) Nursing and Health Professions Premier Journals (89 full-text nursing journals), Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR), MEDLINE, Pre-MEDLINE and Healthstar.

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