Hyderabad: British Council’s digital library in demand
Hyderabad: The British Council’s digital library memberships and usage in Hyderabad have seen significant growth in the last 12 months. Average monthly enrollments have increased by 104 per cent in the period, while content formats such as audiobooks, online newspapers, magazines and journals have seen significant rise in popularity as per subscription trends, the British […]
Hyderabad: The British Council’s digital library memberships and usage in Hyderabad have seen significant growth in the last 12 months.
Average monthly enrollments have increased by 104 per cent in the period, while content formats such as audiobooks, online newspapers, magazines and journals have seen significant rise in popularity as per subscription trends, the British Council said here on Tuesday.
In line with the increase in ‘on-demand’ content and a shift in content consumption patterns, the Council has strengthened its digital library offering for users across Hyderabad, and India, enabling easy access to the best of UK and global content, it said.
The mobile app version of the digital library offers a seamless, interactive and personalised customer journey that pulls together all content in one place and allows members to build their library collection, it said, adding that the digital library offers easy access to over 10,000 newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries, over 10,000 academic journals through JSTOR and EBSCO – world’s leading resources for academics and students, and more than 15,000 full-text scholarly journals, dissertations, working papers, and market reports through ProQuest Central.
The digital library also offers video tutorials and training courses on a wide array of software applications and professional development topics, as well as videos and content to improve one’s English, it added.
