From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:46:04 -0400 Dear Ann, Thank you for your question about the World Bank's new Open Knowledge Repository (OKR). The World Bank eLibrary, a separate product to the OKR, remains a subscription-based product that adds value through its enhanced functionality. The World Bank eLibrary offers a variety of conveniences for librarians, researchers and heavy users of Bank research outputs and knowledge products. These tools include MARC records, the ability to personalize content alerts and bookmarking content, and a powerful search engine. It also has current articles published in the World Bank Research Observer and World Bank Economic Review. A new and enhanced version of eLibrary will be launched later this year that will offer mobile access, allowing even more flexibility for sharing, using, and re-using the Bank’s knowledge. The new eLibrary will be XML base and will allow users to access books and reports at a more granular level - such as by chapter, table, or figure. Among other features, users will be able to build custom ebooks from eLibrary content that can be used as course packs for classroom use, create alerts, bookmark content, and a series of other functionalities. The eLibrary is also indexed through all major search and discovery vendors. The subscription price for the new eLibrary has not yet been determined. Please note that the OKR currently hosts a third of the content in the eLibrary. All new content will be made available in both products simultaneously. Backlist content will be added to the OKR in subsequent development phases. Please note also that Bank publications remain available through content aggregators like eBrary, Ingram, EBSCO, Overdrive and others, as well as through consumer channels like Amazon or B&N. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Kind regards, Jose Jose de Buerba Sr. Publishing Officer Marketing Manager [log in to unmask]