Serials Solutions now includes eBooks

by spolanka

From a marketing email I received from Serials Solutions:

Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks now includes 800,000 eBooks

    With more budget resources being dedicated to the purchase of eBook databases and titles, a new challenge is to help patrons easily find these valuable resources and increase their usage.  sp

    Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks, the authoritative e-resource knowledgebase, now integrates over 800,000 eBook holdings into Serials Solutions 360 e-resource access services to benefit your patrons.

        * Help patrons find eBooks in your OPAC using 360 MARC Updates OPAC updating service
        * Enable patrons to browse an A-to-Z title list of e-resources include eBooks using 360 Core
        * Provide access to eBooks from citations or a citation search form using 360 Link OpenURL link resolver
        * Help patrons discover eBooks through 360 Search federated search service

 Other vendors are also offering this service, like the Ebsco A to Z list. 

We have the Ebsco product at WSU and are electing to not display the ebooks at this time.  Our patrons use our A to Z list to locate electronic journals (which are also in our catalog), so I really don’t like to clutter the product with other formats, particularly since ebooks are a growing collection.  At some point the ebooks will outnumber the journals. 

Does anyone know if Serials Solutions categorizes these formats so that they can easily be searched by journal, ebook, or database?  Ebsco A to Z does not currently do that.  If they did, I might consider adding the ebooks since I could default to a journals search on the patron screen, but have the ebooks and databases search available.