New Lower Prices for Special Libraries
A Customer Speaks:
"Though almost all government documents are now "born digital", university libraries continue to acquire domestic government documents in print for their govdocs collections. Print is an option which non-academic and special libraries (especially in law firms) can no longer afford. One commercial publisher has collected Canadian "born digital" govdocs into a comprehensive collection and made it available to subscribers online: the Canadian Electronic Library-Canadian Public Policy Collection. This is a collection of "monograph" publications (no periodical series) from Canadian federal and provincial government agencies, public policy institutes, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups, in both English and French. The collection, which is built on the ebrary ebook platform, currently includes over 24,000 titles. Licences are surprisingly liberal and subscription costs reasonable, so that it is as easy for law firms to subscribe as it is for a larger public or academic library. Because our university library - as does the library of every university with a law school - has a govdocs library that is an official government depository, and also because we subscribe to the Canadian Electronic Library described above, we at the Osgoode Hall Law School Library essentially no longer acquire govdocs."

Louis Mirando
Chief Law Librarian,
Osgoode Hall Law School 
Original CEL Collections Still Available on ebrary

 

 

Current number of titles

Annual Subscription Price

Canadian Publishers 

~15,000

$1800

Canadian Public Policy

~31,000

$1600

Canadian Health Research

~12,000

$800


The CEL Value Proposition
If you're familiar with Netflix, Hoopla or Scribd, you'll appreciate the advantages and savings inherent in the subscription license model. 

Relevance

As a database of Canadian primary sources, CEL has something for everyone. Try a search in your area of interest.

+ Currency

We scan publisher websites and add new titles every week. The always on, all-you-can-eat subscription model puts these in front of your users with no overhead

= Value

By any measure (cost per use or cost per title,) CEL is a bargain.

Dear :
All subscription titles in Canadian Electronic Library are now available to special libraries at dramatically lower prices.

 

You will likely already be familiar CEL's collections of books and monographs for libraries; we'll be marking our tenth anniversary in 2015. 

 

While the original collections remain available, a new "CEL Combined" Collection is now available. This option puts the entire subscription database--over 50,000 documents and books--on your virtual reference shelf ready for immediate use.   

Two Platforms to Choose From

Platform

Preview Site
 Special Library 
Annual Subscription Price

 CEL/ebrary

CEL Combined   

$2,400

desLibris

desLibris.ca   

$1,600

Key Differences between CEL/ebrary and desLibris

Feature

CEL/ebrary

desLibris

Download to personal mobile devices

Books and Documents


Documents only*

Chapter download

Supported

Not available

Integration with international ebook collections


Supported


Not applicable

Subscription license

Available

Available

Perpetual Access licenses

Available

Not available

*Documents in desLibris are downloadable in PDF unprotected by DRM.


See here for more comparative information. 

Take a Closer Look

You can review the preview sites above to get a sense of content, quality and coverage.Try any search to sample the thousands of primary source materials you'll be giving to your users. 

 

All titles in both platforms are licensed for simultaneous multiple users, so all titles are available to all users all the time. There are no turnaways, checkouts or wait-times. 


Compare CEL with other databases of Canadian materials, and you'll find nothing to match it for relevance, currency or value.  

 

As the result of a new agreement with the eBOUND unit of the Association of Canadian Publishers, thousands of new titles from additional Canadian publishers will be are eligible for addition to CEL in 2015. 

Start today
Now recording over 20 million page views and tens of thousands of downloads annually, CEL is a staple in Canadian academic libraries.

 

With this new pricing, special libraries can offer the same quality and experience to their user populations without breaking the bank.


To start gradually with desLibris, you can open a free 30-day trial account easily by going to www.deslibris.ca/register and completing the simple forms. For new members, the first month of service is considered a free trial. You will not receive an invoice until 30 days after your registration date. And you may cancel without further obligation at any time during this period.  

 

I look forward to welcoming your library to our community.

 

Best regards,
  
Bob Gibson
Canadian Electronic Library
Canadian Electronic Library
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