YBP/Gobi***Contact your library liaison for login and password information.***
YBP revolutionized bookselling to scholarly libraries in 1996 when in it became the first academic bookseller to offer a web-based acquisition and collection development tool. GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information) is YBP's complete online interface for searching, selecting, ordering and reporting and used by thousands of academic libraries worldwide.
GOBI is available to all YBP customers, and supports every step in your library's acquisition and collection development workflow.
- Easily view titles designated for demand-driven acquisitions as noted in GOBI
- Quickly perform simple or complex searches via YBP's fully integrated database of over 4 million titles worldwide
- New titles and information updates are added to GOBI continuously, every day
- See at a glance your own library's activity on any title, including activity and duplication control on linked alternate editions for paper-cloth, US-UK and digital-print versions
- Benefit from duplication control across all versions of a particular title
- View tables of contents, jacket images and reviews
- Search local holdings through multi-faceted open URL queries
- Search, select and order digital content (500,000 ebook titles) from the widest variety of aggregators and publishers offered by any library services provider
- Place next day, second day or ground delivery rush orders (currently US libraries only)
- Manage potential selections online. Attach notes, sort and re-sort, send to others through 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 and print statements and invoices
- Search, create, claim, edit or cancel standing orders online
- Build profiles for remote selectors. Analyze approval or expenditure activity with the most complete reporting package available.
- Coordinate buying activity with partner libraries through GobiTween views and Consortial Reports
