GOBI®

YBP revolutionized bookselling to academic libraries when in 1996 we were the first bookseller to offer a database on the World Wide Web. GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP's complete online interface for searching, selecting, ordering, and reporting is still the leader, today used by academic libraries throughout the world.

GOBI, available to all customers of YBP or Lindsay and Croft, supports every step in online workflows.

GOBI users can:

  • Quickly perform simple or complex searches of a fully integrated database of over 2 million titles from the US, UK, and around the world. New titles and information updates are added to GOBI continuously, every day.
  • See at a glance their own library's activity on any title, including activity and duplication control on linked alternate editions for paper-cloth, US-UK, and print-eBook versions.
  • View tables of contents, jacket images, and reviews.
  • Search local holdings through openURL queries from GOBI.
  • Mainstream eBook selection and purchasing.
  • Place rush orders that can ship to the library the same day.
  • Handle potential selections online in ways that improve on paper slips. Attach notes, sort and re-sort, send to others via email, or save in personal or shared folders where the most current bibliographic, status, price, and local activity information is always displayed in real time.
  • View statements and invoices.
  • Search, create, cancel, or edit standing orders online.
  • Create customized Peer Groups and Peer Reports to see title decisions and buying patterns at other libraries.

GOBI libraries can:

  • Create highly efficient library-wide workflows that tie together all steps in selection and acquisition of monographs and standing orders.
  • Build profiles for remote selectors, such as teaching faculty, and alert them to pertinent new titles with automated email lists or links.
  • Analyze approval or expenditure activity with the most complete reporting package available.
  • Coordinate buying activity with partner libraries through GobiTween views and Consortial Reports.

To register

GOBI is available to all customers of YBP or Lindsay and Croft. We offer several packages of advanced features, as well as a package of core features at no charge.

Please contact your YBP representative, or contact YBP at 800.258.3774 (toll-free from the U.S. and Canada), or +1.603.746.3102, or send an email to gobi2@ybp.com.

Lindsay and Croft customers can register by calling +44 (0) 1483 425222, or send an email to landc@ybp.com.