eBrary is an online digital library with academic information and books from relevant publishers around the world. In November, it awarded Universidad Politécnica Salesiana for having increased its visits to eBrary in almost 200%.

After assessing 96 institutions nationwide, they learned that in 2013 UPS visited eBrary 9,339 times and that from January to October 2014 there were a total of 33,083 visits which represents almost a 200% increase.

Felipe Dominguez, manager of Simulations S.A, awarded Mara Tamayo, the UPS librarian, a plaque which states that "eTech Solutions Corp. congratulates Universidad Politécnica Salesiana for increasing the use of eBrary"

Mara Tamayo thanked Simulations S.A and said "the staff at the university library will keep working hard to disseminate all the services it offers, as well as training users on the use of virtual libraries"

"This information is official and SENESCYT knows about it. The use of eBrary is well over 35% in all institutions and UPS is way above that. Additionally, tools like Summon as well as having bought books in 2013 have remarkably increased figures for UPS". Dominguez said.

The plaque was awarded during an evented hosted by "ProQuest" and "eTech Solutions corp" for representatives of Ecuadorian universities who attended the conference on "The cloud, hyper connectivity, and knowledge"

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