CNET Has A Story on a new service called \”ebrarian\”, that lets people read articles and books online for free but charges them to copy text or print pages.
EBrary will announce The Bibliographical Center for Research, which serves the western United States; Palinet, which serves the mid-Atlantic region; New England-based Nelinet; the Michigan Library Consortium; Wisconsin Library Services; and Ohio\’s Ohionet. Ebrary said the networks will distribute its online research service to 6,000 libraries in the United States, beginning with a 30-day trial in April.
\”There\’s a vulnerability for all of these (online research) companies to be financially successful,\” said Marti Harris, research director for Gartner. \”These digital content providers and relationships are very important and essential for research as part of the whole library collection, (but) they\’re not going to be replacing the traditional libraries…We\’re a long way off from having a totally online library.\”
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