FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ABC-CLIO and EBSCO Publishing Announce
New Distribution Partnership
Santa Barbara, CA — April 20, 2007 — ABC-CLIO is pleased to announce a new distribution partnership to make award-winning ABC-CLIO databases available through EBSCO Publishing.
With this new partnership, college and university libraries will be able to enjoy the convenience of working with their EBSCO representative to consolidate orders for ABC-CLIO databases with their orders for EBSCOhost® databases. The databases will continue to be accessed via ABC-CLIO platforms, so customers will experience the same renowned content through familiar interfaces with the added benefit of combined ordering through the EBSCO sales team.
The following resources are included in the agreement:
- History Reference Online—a newly released collection of reference eBooks
- Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society—newly released
- United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society—winner of 4 “best of” awards
“We're pleased that EBSCO will be offering ABC-CLIO products alongside their own,” said Ron Boehm, CEO of ABC-CLIO. “It combines the offerings of the foremost history publisher with those of the premier database aggregator in a way that benefits many more college and university libraries than we can reach on our own.”
In a related move, ABC-CLIO's History Reference Online will also now be available in three different annual subscription packages. The Complete package, including nearly 550 full-text eBooks, will offer cross-searchable access to ABC-CLIO's full collection of history encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and guides. The Premier collection will feature nearly 400 titles and the Elite collection will contain 250 titles. New titles will be added to all collections on a quarterly basis at no additional cost to the subscriber.
For more information, please contact:
ABC-CLIO
Devon Bell
Senior Sales Support Coordinator
(800) 368-6868
dbell@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.