Elevate Your Library’s Ebook Collection

Powerful Analytics. Unlimited Access. One Workflow.

ProQuest’s Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) program offers librarians a budget-friendly, flexible, and intuitive workflow solution that provides the best of both worlds – access and ownership.

What is Evidence Based Acquisition?

EBA allows libraries to provide patrons with unlimited access to a publisher’s pool of content for a one-year period. At the end of the program, librarians can choose which titles to purchase permanently for their collections based on usage, enabling more evidence-based purchases.

ProQuest’s EBA program includes Hosted EBA on Ebook Central (managed through LibCentral or Rialto), and Publisher Direct EBA with Rialto. Both offer time saving, unified workflows to manage one or more EBA programs with ease. Powerful analytics will help you make informed selections throughout the program. 

With ProQuest’s EBA program, you can:

• Broaden content coverage, including with publishers that do not currently have EBA
• Inform purchases with robust data and usage analytics
• Simplify program management with existing workflows through LibCentral and Rialto
• Monitor your EBA pool with innovative tools to assess and select titles
• Make flexible decisions throughout the program ̶ with the ability to allocate or pin titles for potential purchase and monitor planned budget spend
• Collaborate through Rialto ̶ all staff have visibility into EBA activity at any time and can propose selections together, while preventing duplicate purchases

See how you can make informed decisions to grow your collections with unlimited access. You’ll save time and money knowing that your purchases are based on usage. Complete the form to request a demo and more information.

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