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    March 10th, 2010LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    ~ Databases Merged to Create Two Resources for Fish & Aquatic Biology Studies and International Water Research ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — March 10, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is announcing the release of Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide™ (FFAB) and Waters & Oceans Worldwide™ (WOW). These new databases represent database combinations which have never been attempted. Each database covers an extensive timeframe and comprehensive geographic coverage of regions & water bodies as well as complete world coverage of all aquatic issues. FFAB and WOW are highly significant resources for researchers in both freshwater and marine environments, and to researchers working on both the living and non-living aspects of all aquatic environments.

    Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide (FFAB)
    Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide covers research and management issues relating to all aspects of ichthyology, fisheries, aquatic biology/ecology, and aquaculture. The database includes content from Fish & Fisheries Worldwide, and Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture & Fisheries Resources (ABAFR). Fish & Fisheries Worldwide was formerly a NISC South Africa database available on the EBSCOhost® platform, while Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture & Fisheries Resources was formerly a NISC US database. In October 2008, EBSCO purchased NISC, Inc. including ABAFR. With the addition of other 19 databases including FISHLIT, Aquatic Biology Citations, Fisheries Review, the Fishing Industry Research Index and a database from the WorldFish Center’s Library, this database aggregation includes some of the world’s major fish and fisheries databases.

    Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide includes research on aquaculture species ranging from culture and propagation to genetics, behavior, ecology and habitat. As a result of merging all of these resources, the expanded database offers more than one million citations and abstracts dating back to the 1970s.

    Waters & Oceans Worldwide (WOW)
    With comprehensive world coverage, of both freshwater and marine environments, Waters & Oceans Worldwide includes research ranging from surface and groundwater to coastal and offshore engineering to pollution and water treatment, records date back to the 1970s and earlier. This resource includes all content from Water Resources Worldwide, a former a NISC South Africa database available on the EBSCOhost platform, encompassing six of the world’s major water resource databases: WATERLIT, The Freshwater Biological Association Library Catalogue, The International Water Management Institute Database, AQUAREF, ACQUIRE and Delft Hydro. In addition to these resources, Waters & Oceans Worldwide also includes Marine, Oceanographic and Freshwater Resource (MOFR), another database formerly available from NISC US and acquired by EBSCO including Hydroarchive and the databases of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory and the oceanographic Library in Southampton. The combination of these databases offers a tremendous increase in content with records growing from 854,840 to over 1,850,000.

    FFAB and WOW are two of many environment databases available from EBSCO Publishing and provide comprehensive and unique coverage.

    About EBSCO Publishing
    EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 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, INSPEC®, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher’s Index™, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world.

    EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution’s resources within a single, customizable search point—detailed metadata from important content sources, OPAC loading, EBSCOhost database indexing and full text and metadata from institutional repositories and special collections (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Public Relations Manager
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

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    March 10th, 2010LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff, Claude Lalumière, Mary E. Choo, Sandra Kasturi, Bradley Media Release
    For Immediate Release

    Toronto Book Fans to get "First Bite" of All - Canadian Vampire Anthology - BYOG (Bring your own garlic!)

    (Calgary) Toronto book fans will meet some of Canada's top horror writers at the EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead book launch event on April 9th, at the World's Biggest Bookstore.

    EVOLVE editor Nancy Kilpatrick along with authors Kelley Armstrong, Rio Youers, Claude Lalumière, Kevin Nunn and others - including Natasha Beaulieu (Montreal), and Jerome Stueart (Whitehorse) - will join Toronto's Gemma Files and Sandra Kasturi for the event. Several authors will be flying in from their appearance at the World Horror Convention in Brighton UK to take part in the Toronto launch.

    But what is EVOLVE?
    Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff and twenty-two other Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers re-imagine the future in EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, the first all-Canadian vampire anthology of original fiction - one of the most unusual and compelling collections ever compiled. EVOLVE is published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Canada's largest genre dedicated publisher, who is celebrating their 10th anniversary this year.

    "We are really looking forward to this event", says EVOLVE publisher Brian Hades. "We have had some phenomenal coverage of this book, and there is a real buzz for its release right across the country! We are delighted that so many of the authors will be joining us for the party - and it is a great way, as well, to start off our anniversary celebrations!"

    Who is in EVOLVE?
    EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead includes works by: Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff, Claude Lalumière, Mary E. Choo, Sandra Kasturi, Bradley Somer, Kevin Cockle, Rebecca Bradley, Heather Clitheroe, Colleen Anderson, Sandra Wickham, Rhea Rose, Ronald Hore, Bev Vincent, Jennifer Greylyn, Steve Vernon, Michael Skeet, Kevin Nunn, Victoria Fisher, Rio Youers, Gemma Files, Natasha Beaulieu, Claude Bolduc, and Jerome Stueart.

    About Editor Nancy Kilpatrick
    Editor and author Nancy Kilpatrick has penned 18 novels, more than 200 short stories, 5 collections of stories, and has been the editor for 9 other anthologies. Her body of work involves vampires and dark fantasy fiction. She won an Arthur Ellis Award for the best mystery story, is a three times Bram Stoker finalist and a five times finalist for the Aurora Award.

    Launch information
    EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead
    World's Biggest Bookstore
    (7:00 PM)
    20 Edward Street (just off Yonge St., North of Dundas),
    Toronto,ON

    Book Information
    EVOLVE: Vampire Stories of the New Undead
    edited by Nancy Kilpatrick
    ISBN: 978-1-894063-33-3
    $15.95 USA
    $16.95 CDN
    Pages: 304
    Trade Paperback (5.5" x 8.5")

    Websites:
    http://www.edgewebsite.com/books/evolve/ev-catalog.html (Publisher’s site: sample pdf available)
    http://vampires-evolve.com (special limited editions – including coffin edition...see under “Purchase” for details.)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEKdqoj53fk&feature=player_embedded (book trailer)
    http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=237581542711&ref=ts (Evolve Facebook group page.)

    For further information, or to set up interviews with Nancy Kilpatrick or any of the EVOLVE authors, please contact:

    Janice Shoults
    EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
    403.254.0160
    events@hadespublications.com

    A complete media package is available upon request.

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