GOBI Library Solutions

GOBI Library Solutions is the leading supplier of both print books and e-books to thousands of academic customers around the world.

When you work with GOBI Library Solutions, you benefit from collection development decision-making based on best-in-class proprietary bibliographic metadata that only we can provide. We do the work so you don’t have to. 

• Knowledge: GOBI Library Solutions has the broadest e-book and print book coverage available with rich academic metadata and de-duplication logic that is unmatched in the industry. 

• Choice: We are committed to providing choice for libraries by offering integrated workflows with all major ILS systems and supporting more than 20 eSupplier platforms and the broadest choice of acquisition models.

• Innovation: We are dedicated to continuous innovation and evolving with our customers and partners as their needs shift and change over time. Integrations with content partners ensure that GOBI provides a seamless ordering experience that matches the level of service ordering directly on a publisher’s platform.

GOBI Library Solutions Collection Development Managers work with you to help understand your collection development goals and provide the best solution.  

Best-in-class proprietary bibliographic metadata is developed by GOBI Library Solutions profilers—subject-matter experts who sit with book-in-hand (or book-on-screen) to generate enhanced title-level data. This data provides deeper connections, helpful context and evaluative guidance to support collection development.

Title-level metadata, along with the library’s approval plan, profiling decision support questions, and GOBI’s duplication control and title linking all come together to drive approval plan decisions.

Approval plans help you acquire books that match your library’s profile, goals and preferences. Our industry-leading profiling process and rich metadata are the foundation of our approval plans and help you make more informed collection development decisions.

Choose to receive books through a variety of print and digital outputs, including automatic shipments, selection lists of matching titles, demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) and more.  

Spotlight Lists are curated selection lists that feature librarian-recommended e-books and print books. Subscribe, browse what’s new, acquire whole lists or select which titles you want.

Spotlight List categories include:

• Award Winners & Reviews
• DRM-Free
• Subject-Focused Lists
• Core Titles
• Health Science
• Undergraduate Curriculum
• Popular Fiction & Nonfiction
• And more

GOBI is a tool that supports selection, collaboration and acquisition for individual libraries and members of consortia or buying groups. In addition to print books from thousands of top academic publishers, GOBI users can also order from the widest range of e-book publishers and aggregators all in one place.

Our robust linking ensures that we know all versions of a title, so we can alert you of duplicates automatically across all acquisition models and formats. In addition, our visibility into your library’s historical purchases and order details make our duplication control that much stronger.

Save time with GOBI’s duplication control, workflow support and cataloging records.

• Title-by-title firm ordering 
• eApproval plans  
• Demand-driven acquisitions (DDA)  
• eSeries 
• eCollections delivered on the publisher’s platform  
• Evidence-based acquisition (EBA) delivered on the publisher’s platform

E-Books in Minutes: E-books are available within minutes after ordering from a growing list of partners, including EBSCO eBooks, Taylor & Francis and more.  

DRM-Free E-Books: GOBI offers the most DRM-free e-book options in one place. Find more than 1 million e-books available DRM-free from aggregator and publisher platforms. 

• Title-by-title firm ordering
• Approval plans 
• Awards programs 
• Series 
• Rush order service (US & Canada) 
• Out-of-print and out-of-stock books 

GobiExport and Electronic Order Confirmation Record (EOCR) Service: Receive pre-order and post-order MARC records from your GOBI orders that you can upload to your local system, saving time and preventing errors. OCLC records are available with EOCR Plus Service. 

Electronic Invoicing: We support electronic invoicing via MARC records and many EDI formats, meeting international standards for compliance. View invoices and statements in GOBI or choose to receive invoices via email. 

Whether you’re looking for acquisition workflow efficiency, change management support or ways to save time, our technical services can help.  

Custom E-Book and Print Book Cataloging Services

For e-books and print books, get customized cataloging support that saves you time. Classification options include Library of Congress, Dewey and National Library of Medicine (NLM) with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 

Physical Processing

We offer a wide range of shelf-ready services, so your books are prepared for circulation as soon as you receive them. 

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

We support EDI transactions associated with all major integrated library systems for orders, invoices and order status reports. 

GOBI is open and committed to providing choice to libraries. We partner with all ILS vendors and offer integration with all library systems.  

GobiAPI Integration 

Get real-time integration between GOBI and your local library system. Designed for both single and multiple orders, it is the simplest process for transferring bibliographic and order data.

GobiAPI works with a growing number of systems, including Ex Libris Alma, Kuali OLE, Innovative Interfaces Sierra, Tind and FOLIO.

GOBI Auto-Population in EBSCO Holdings Link Management (HLM) 

GOBI and EBSCO Holdings Link Management (HLM) customers can opt in to get complimentary, automated integration between GOBI and HLM. Get immediate access to all purchased e-books, including individual titles, eCollections and evidence-based acquisition (EBA) collections.  

GOBI Library Solutions partners with thousands of publishers to connect the highest quality content with libraries worldwide. We work with:

• Large academic publishers
• University presses
• Trade publishers
• Specialty publishers
• And more

By including a vast range of publishers in GOBI, we make sure that you get the books you need, no matter how unique or specialized.

And because we partner with top e-book publishers and aggregators, you can choose the platform and access model you want and select from hundreds of thousands of DRM-free e-books.

We’re always expanding our content partnerships, working together to design solutions that simplify e-book acquisitions. 

Are you a publisher interested in partnering with GOBI Library Solutions? Let's work together. 

When you work with GOBI Library Solutions, you work with a team of experts that act as an extension of your library. This includes: 

• Collection Development Managers, many of whom are librarians themselves, who work with you to create your library’s profile and understand your library’s collection development goals.
• Customer Service Bibliographers who are paired with each customer, so you always know who to contact. 
• Technical Services staff who work with you to determine the most optimal workflows. 

GOBI Library Solutions’ in-house profiling experts help you select from the most relevant books for your library. 

Our team of subject experts have a combined 193 years of experience and profile nearly 70,000 newly published books each year, creating detailed bibliographic descriptions that you can find only in GOBI.

GOBI tutorials, user guides and other support material are available on-demand on the EBSCO Connect support site. 

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