eBooks for Lawyers: LexisNexis and OverDrive Partner, Launch LexisNexis Digital Library
Two Ohio-based companies have announced a partnership.
From a News Release:
LexisNexisLegal & Professional today announced an agreement with OverDrive , to create the LexisNexis Digital Library.
LexisNexis Digital Library is a new service that offers legal professionals access to the largest collection of authoritative legal eBook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms. It also enables organizations to share individual eBook titles among multiple users, purchase eBooks centrally and manage their library efficiently. With the service, organizations can significantly reduce the costs associated with storing, filing and distributing traditional print books.
The core of LexisNexis Digital Library is a website created by OverDrive and customized for each law firm or organization. A librarian or designated administrator serves as the manager of a virtual library, ordering titles and supervising lending of all electronic content.
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Users of the LexisNexis Digital Library have access to the largest collection of eBooks for legal professionals. LexisNexis offers more than 1,100 electronic legal titles itself and, as a result of the agreement with OverDrive, LexisNexis customers also have access to and the ability to purchase more than 700,000 titles from OverDrive’s Content Reserve collection development portal, which offers a variety of subjects from business and technology to travel and language learning.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.