LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, (www.lexisnexis.com)
today announced an agreement with OverDrive® (www.overdrive.com),
the leading global distributor of eBooks and other digital content to
libraries and schools, to create the LexisNexis®
Digital Library.
LexisNexis
Digital Library is an innovative new service that offers legal
professionals access to the largest collection of authoritative legal
eBook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms. It also
enables organizations to share individual eBook titles among multiple
users, purchase eBooks centrally and manage their library efficiently.
With the service, organizations can significantly reduce the costs
associated with storing, filing and distributing traditional print books.
“As today’s lawyers increasingly use tablets, smart phones and laptops
as part of their everyday work, they need more flexible and
cost-effective ways to use and share legal eBooks,” said Bob Romeo, CEO
of Research & Litigation Solutions at LexisNexis® Legal &
Professional. “Working with OverDrive, we’ve created LexisNexis Digital
Library so our customers have quick mobile or desktop access to more
trusted legal eBooks than any other source, along with the ability to
economically expand and manage their library.”
The core of LexisNexis Digital Library is a website created by OverDrive
and customized for each law firm or organization. A librarian or
designated administrator serves as the manager of a virtual library,
ordering titles and supervising lending of all electronic content. This
arrangement is more efficient compared to each individual eBook user
purchasing and managing his or her own digital content. Additionally,
the site enables the administrator to generate detailed reports to
better understand eBook usage patterns and to inform better digital
content decisions for the firm or organization.
Legal professionals at organizations that have LexisNexis Digital
Library access, check out and return titles via the primary website, a
mobile-optimized version of the site or through a
downloadable mobile application. In addition to simultaneous access
to many titles for multiple users, users may also check out multiple
copies of the same eBook depending on how many copies the library
purchases.