Less than six months after launching a dedicated iOS app, ebrary®, a ProQuest business, today announced a new Android™ app that will be freely available on Google Play this summer. With the increasing popularity of smart phones, tablets, and other devices, researchers will have a more optimized way to discover and use e-books, online and offline, on any Android device in addition to the iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch®.
“There are an estimated 300 million active Android smartphones and tablets worldwide, with 850,000 devices activated daily. Android has proven popular among the students, staff, and faculty who use ebrary for their research,” said Matt Barnes, ebrary’s Vice President of Marketing. “The launch of our Android app is a direct response to the many requests we’ve received from users who want a way to utilize scholarly e-books from trusted publishers on the device of their choice.”
ebrary’s Android and iOS apps work with e-books acquired under all of ebrary’s acquisition models including the 75,000 titles available through Academic Complete™, the industry’s first and only aggregated e-book subscription to be designated as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. The apps also provide optimized access to local content uploaded by libraries via DASH!™ (Data Sharing, Fast), a unique feature of Academic Complete and other ebrary products.
Key features and benefits of ebrary’s apps include:
Freely available with any ebrary library product
Online and offline reading
Seamless downloading of full titles
Simple and advanced search
Multiple navigation controls
Table of contents with relevancy rankings
Early check-in of ebrary’s e-books
Copy and paste with automatic citation for offline documents
User configurable download size warnings
Import and use documents from other sources
Supports English and Spanish (UI)
Optional sign-in with Facebook user name and password
