Santa Barbara, Calif.-January 3, 2002-ABC-CLIO, the award-winning, reference publisher, announced today it will link its historical abstracting and indexing databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, to journals electronically published on the History Cooperative web site. The service became available at the end of December.

With this new agreement users of the ABC-CLIO databases who also subscribe to History Cooperative journals will have direct links to the full-text of journals in the History Cooperative archive. Including The American Historical Review, The Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of American History, The History Teacher and The William and Mary Quarterly. Users will be able to link to full-text from both short and long entries that date to when the journal went up on the History Cooperative web site. Libraries with subscriptions to Historical Abstracts or America: History and Life, who also subscribe to journals located on the History Cooperative web site will automatically see these links. Journals and journal issues that are openly available on the History Cooperative web site will also be linked to ABC-CLIO history database entries.

"We are excited to be working with the History Cooperative and its partners and to announce that our subscribers can now use our databases as an access point to the history journal articles that are mounted on the History Cooperative web site. Being able to provide this type of access continues our mission of meeting the needs of history researchers of all types,” said Vicky Speck, Editorial Director, Serials at ABC-CLIO.

Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, established in 1955 and 1964 respectively, are research tools for students, scholars, and historians. They contain abstracts of journal articles and book reviews pertaining to the history of the world, with more than 16,000 new abstracts added to each database every year. Both databases were brought to the web in 1998.

For more information please contact Tara Guentz, Publicist,  at 800-368-6868 x 359, or email tguentz@abc-clio.com.