Elsevier Research Metrics is excited to announce the release of books content and usage metrics for the Airiti iRead eBooks platform in PlumX Metrics. This new complement of data adds to our existing suite of Airiti metrics which already include usage metrics from the airiti Library and citations from the Academic Citation Index.

From the publisher:
“Airiti inc released iRead eBooks in 2008, which collected fine Chinese ebooks from 3000 publishers. With more than 80,000 Mandarin ebooks, iRead eBooks has becoming the largest Chinese ebook provider in Taiwan.

Our ebook categories range from academic to leisure, including business management, finance, literature, social sciences, language, textbooks, computers and engineering.

Aside from good content quality, iRead eBooks also provides solid platform services.

We support both online and offline reading, automatic return, reservation, renewal and multi-library account login, readers can enjoy ebooks anytime, anywhere!”

The usage metrics for iRead eBooks now in PlumX include Abstract Views, Full Text Views and Download Counts.