YBP Works
for Academic Libraries

YBP Works for libraries around the world. By listening closely to our customers, we develop solutions that work for your library. Continued investment in our team, our technology, and our partnerships all contribute to a suite of services designed to fit into your workflow and to help you address the new challenges facing academic libraries today.

Here’s how YBP Works for your library:

• Most accurate and flexible approval plans in the industry
• Quick fulfillment with broadest and deepest inventory in the industry
• Access to Baker & Taylor distribution facilities for unparalleled RUSH order fulfillment
• GOBI^®, the most advanced tool for collection management and acquisitions, offers
  
  
  • Consortial and peer reporting
  • Approval plan analysis
  • Order and expenditure reports
  • Customizable local data fields
  • Extensive bibliographic data to support selection and order decisions
  
  
  
• Book in hand approval profiling of 70,000+ worldwide titles each year
• Automated notification programs for selectors and faculty
• Strong US/UK duplication control in partnership with Lindsay and Croft
• The most professional, dedicated Customer Service Bibliographers in the industry
• Talented Collection Development Managers throughout the U.S.
• Experienced consortial partner
• Wide array of workflow solutions
• Extensive MARC record customization options
• Shelf-ready processing
• The new YBP/OCLC Cataloging Plus service, providing the best available OCLC record at time of order and/or shipment
• 6000 customers using our services, including the vast majority of ARL libraries
• Planned support for a wide variety of eContent platforms integrated into our traditional pBook solutions, so that you can choose the format and platform that works for your library:
  
  
  • Publisher-specific
  • NetLibrary
  • ebrary
  • EBL
  
  
  
• Proven track record of meeting the needs of both large and small libraries around the world