ABC-CLIO's Award-winning History eBook Collection is Now Available in History Reference Online
Santa Barbara, CA — June 22, 2006 — ABC-CLIO, the award-winning history reference publisher, announces the launch of History Reference Online, a fully cross-searchable database assembled by over 5,000 scholars and reference experts to meet the history research needs of students.
History Reference Online delivers the best of a reference eBook library with the speed and cross-searching capabilities of a database. Integrated tools help guide the user through a flexible and purpose-driven research experience, while simultaneous access for thousands of users at once enhances the value of this collection for any academic institution.
The scope of topics covered in this database includes American and world history; world and U.S. issues; social and cultural history; political and military history; geography, folklore, and mythology; history of religion; and history of science, technology, and the environment making History Reference Online an appropriate research resource for students taking history, political science, sociology, literature, and cultural studies courses.
A multiplicity of search options offers users the ability to conduct basic searches across the database by keyword, author, and title, or browse and navigate through a library of book titles arranged by subject matter. Within a single title the user can search by keyword or browse the table of contents.
Other features include:
- Thousands of signed articles available in a massive full-text library
- Relevancy ranking scores in search results
- Ability to drill down topically to the selected entries with the highest relevancy ranking
- User-selected reference titles can be saved on the student's desktop, instantly available for future browsing or searching
- Automatic citations in four styles: Chicago, MLA, APA, and Harvard
- Access to the complete Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Fully integrated Help feature, FAQs, and User Guide
- For the librarian; included training materials, User Guides, Quick Start sheets, and promotion sheets facilitate user training, support, and awareness
History Reference Online is priced as an annual subscription and is available now for previewing. With an initial launch of an award-winning collection of 339 titles and quarterly updates that will add over 50 new titles to the database each year, the breadth and depth of content in History Reference Online, combined with a high-speed search capability, offers scholars a valuable and enriching research experience all within a single resource.
Visit www.abc-clio.com/HRO_preview for a free 30-day preview
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.
For additional information contact:
Lyn Peyok, (800) 368-6868 x 347, lpeyok@abc-clio.com
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