FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ABC-CLIO and EBSCO Publishing Announce New Partnership
Mutual Customers Can Link from ABC-CLIO Databases to EBSCO's Databases
Santa Barbara, CA and Ipswich, MA — September 8, 2006 — ABC-CLIO, an award-winning history reference publisher, announces the formation of a full-text linking partnership with EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), a move that increases full-text links in ABC-CLIO's premier history abstracts databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life. Mutual customers of ABC-CLIO's and EBSCO's online databases can now link directly from relevant journal article citations in ABC-CLIO's databases to the corresponding full text in EBSCO's online databases via EBSCOhost®.
As part of a 50-year anniversary celebration in 2005, ABC-CLIO embarked on a multiyear program to upgrade and enhance Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life. With a redesigned interface launched in January, two new version releases with new and enhanced features introduced in January and June, and over 1.2 million entries and 489,000 full-text links, these landmark resources are now more than ever the first place to begin any search in the area of history.
In addition to producing many of the world's foremost research databases (many with full text), EBSCO also provides access to other important resources from additional database providers. In other cases, where the leading online index is not available via the EBSCOhost platform (such as ABC-CLIO's Historical Abstracts), EBSCO strives to make its full-text content readily available to users of that index that are also EBSCOhost customers through a simple and direct link. In addition to the ABC-CLIO databases, EBSCO also offers such linking for Chemical Abstracts and Zynx Health's suite of evidence-based clinical decision support tools.
With this new linking partnership, customers of EBSCOhost full-text databases and ABC-CLIO abstracts databases will not need a link resolver to access full text from databases such as Academic Search® through abstracts such as America: History and Life. There will be no additional charge for this new feature.
EBSCO Contact
Rob DePaolo / (800) 653-2726 x408
rdepaolo@epnet.com
ABC-CLIO Contact
Lyn Peyok / (800) 368-6868
lpeyok@abc-clio.com
About ABC-CLIO
Celebrating 50 years of reference publishing in 2005, ABC-CLIO is a privately held company founded and owned by the Boehm family. The company's corporate headquarters is in Santa Barbara, CA, with offices in Denver, CO, and Oxford, England. Committed to serving the history profession, history teachers, and students and scholars of history, ABC-CLIO annually publishes approximately 80 encyclopedias, guides, and handbooks. Since 1991, this acclaimed reference book line has won over 60 best-reference awards from the American Library Association and Library Journal. Its best known publications are the abstracting and indexing services Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, which together represent the largest bibliographic history database in the world. ABC-CLIO also has a large eBook program with all reference book titles published in both print and electronic formats.
About EBSCO
EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 200 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company's product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source® , CINAHL® , DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList®, SocINDEX™, and SPORTDiscus™, as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, PsycARTICLES®, and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world.
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EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.