SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-October 22, 2001-ABC-CLIO, the award-winning, independent reference publisher, today announced it will link its historical abstracting and indexing databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, to the 139 journals contained in the Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II Collections of the JSTOR archive (www.jstor.org). The service will be available by the end of October 2001.

With this new agreement, users of the ABC-CLIO databases who also subscribe to JSTOR, will have over 60,000 direct links to the full-text of journals in the JSTOR archive, such as The American Historical Review, The Journal of Southern History and William and Mary Quarterly. Users will be able to link to full-text from both short and long abstracts that date as far back as 1954. Libraries with subscriptions to Historical Abstracts or America: History and Life, who also participate in JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences I and/or Arts & Sciences II Collection(s), will automatically see these links later in October.

“We are pleased to be working with JSTOR and to announce this linking partnership. We are delighted that our subscribers can now use our databases as an access point to JSTOR’s wealth of full-text journal literature. 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.

Established in 1955, ABC-CLIO is a privately held corporation. It has for many years enjoyed an international reputation for high quality and innovation. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Oxford, England. As an educational reference publisher, ABC-CLIO has received critical acclaim for its computer-assisted abstracting and indexing services, world-renowned book program, and cutting-edge online products.

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