Ebook news from earlier in the year:

  Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) has signed an agreement with the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) to provide all of its member libraries with the complete Springer eBook Collection, 2005 – 2008.

All of the 20 universities in Ontario are members of OCUL, including the University of Toronto, McMaster University, University of Guelph, and Nipissing University. 

 With the OCUL consortium deal, over 12,000 Springer eBooks will be made available to nearly 400,000 students and faculty within OCUL.The Springer eBook Collection is comprised of textbooks, monographs, reference works, handbooks, book series and encyclopedias. Read more of the press release.