The next generation of Books In Print® is waiting for you!

Bowker welcomed the next generation of Books In Print in January and is now urging customers to be prepared to make the switch.

With the All-New Books In Print, you can search the marketplace, find the right titles, and connect with the vendor that's right for you.

The new Books in Print combines the valuable content and search tools you've always relied upon, with new features and tools to foster professional research, provide bookseller information, assist with publisher tracking, and fill patron needs — all through a user-friendly interface.

Search: Unprecedented search capabilities!
Search everything in the market from books, e-books, audio books to videos, through the single Google-like search box. With the new "FRBRization" tool, result lists are easier to review.

Discover: Built-in word cloud and social media technology!
Discover more of what you like with all-new visual display and social media features built into Books In Print, such as the word cloud. With My Discoveries, users can make lists, tag items, rate them, and write their own reviews.

Connect: Find favorite authors, genres, and purchase points!
Used every day by thousands of books professionals and library patrons, Books In Print allows users to make connections and search 50 or more data elements such as author, genre, and price. Learn how to make the switch today!

Books In Print has a variety of ways to view this information and access details related to your subscriptions. These variations include: The United States edition containing North American publications, the Global edition offering global coverage, and most recently, Vendor Connect™ edition.

Books In Print® Vendor Connect is a newly developed platform with integrated supply-chain features, for school districts. This new version of Books In Print allows teachers, librarians and administrators to find books via Books In Print's valuable bibliographic data, view price comparisons from multiple vendors and then place an order all from one source.

"School budgets are under intense pressure and scrutiny. Online price comparison is the fastest way to stretch a dollar," said Sharon Lubrano, ProQuest Vice-President and General Manager, Bowker Services. "Books In Print® Vendor Connect provides a very simple way to get more out of the book budget, without adding additional steps to the workflow." More

Bowker® Data Profiler is a service that enhances your library's metadata, improving search and discovery. This new service processes e-content^* and extracts relevant information, creating enhanced metadata elements that can be fed back to a library's or institution's search engine. This process allows institutions to improve search and discovery of their unique collections and better leverage valuable staff time, which equates to cost savings and a better end user experience. More

^*Electronic content including: e-books, periodicals, newspapers, locally held special collections, and more

Resources for College Libraries, the premier list of core print and electronic resources for academic libraries, features over 75,000 titles in 117 subjects. Brought to you by ACRL's Choice and Bowker, RCL covers the entire two-year and four-year college curriculum and provides a list of core titles that are essential for undergraduate study.

In spring of 2011, Bowker and the RCL team will release an all new database featuring the always credible and comprehensive subject content users expect from RCL, along with the following features:

• Web 2.0 features – tag, rate and review, using My Discoveries™ technology
• Aquabrowser® word cloud technology for visual discovery
• New content alert
• Find RCL and CR titles in your local catalog
• Full-color cover images
• Dynamic facets to help refine search results
• Full-text Choice reviews and easy identifiers for Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
• Curriculum-specific, easy to browse subject hierarchies
• With the Bowker Book Analysis System, offers the fastest and most powerful way to analyze your collection for core holdings.
• And more

Learn more!

Syndetic Solutions is the premier source of specialized, high-quality enriched data designed to enhance library online catalogs. Syndetics strives to provide a wide variety of the most useful information available, much of which cannot be found in online bookseller catalogs or other sources.

NEW!

Syndetics now offers The Guardian (UK) Book Reviews. Nationally and internationally recognized as a news resource, both historical and current, Syndetic Solutions provides The Guardian book reviews from 2000 to the present day. The reviews are featured in the Saturday edition of The Guardian each week.

Review sources already available include the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry, such as The New York Times, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and more.

Syndetics is now available within Summon from Serials Solutions. Joint subscribers can view the same descriptive information they've enjoyed in the OPAC from within this world-class discovery layer.

LibraryThing for Libraries™ enriches your online catalog with data and features that invite your patrons to browse, search, and interact with your library's holdings in completely new ways. Recommendations, tag clouds, a virtual shelf browser, and the ability to write review enhancements, put the power – and fun! – of Web 2.0 at your user's fingertips.

NEW Enhancement!

Series and Awards package: Our newest enhancement taps into more than 50,000 series and 25,000 awards added by LibraryThing members.

Your library on the go!

Bring the power of your library, anywhere with a new mobile web app that allows you to search, discover and interact with your library—anywhere!

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