9 August 2019
A group of academic publishers have announced that they will contribute their expertise to the development of ProQuest Rialto. Rialto is a marketplace that enables libraries to acquire content from a variety of publishers and platforms.
Emerald Publishing, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group and The University of Chicago Press will work with ProQuest to shape the new product. These publishers join a group of ten academic libraries who have also signed on as development partners, aiming to ensure a three-way, content-neutral conversation between libraries, the publishing community and ProQuest. Rialto will be initially available to its development partners in December of this year before its broader launch.
Built on the Alma library services platform, Rialto streamlines purchasing workflows by enabling libraries to acquire content of all types – e-books, print books, video and more – from many sources.