~ Free Digitized Version of European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750

Now Available on EBSCOhost® ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — September 16, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and the John Carter Brown Library have collaborated to bring a new bibliographic database to libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is a database based on the authoritative bibliography “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.” European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is freely available online at: www.europeanamericana.com.

The bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at the John Carter Brown Library. The John Carter Brown Library is a leading repository of rare books and materials and is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities. The library was founded in 1846 and has been located at Brown University since 1901.

This new database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Ted Widmer, director of The John Carter Brown Library says, “Partnering with EBSCO allows us to make this outstanding bibliography available as a resource for scholars worldwide. The EBSCOhost® interface and the robust features it provides searchers can further aid scholars exploring this rich content.”

EBSCO Publishing Vice President of Archive, Literature and Proprietary Publishing Michael Laddin says providing the resource for free is in line with EBSCO’s commitment to historical scholarship. “For many years, the content in this database has been available only in print form as a highly-respected resource for scholars. EBSCO is honored to make it available at no charge to libraries and the academic community at large. It is the first time it will be available in digital form anywhere.”

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is available on EBSCOhost®, one of the most-used research services available in libraries, universities, corporations, schools, medical institutions and government agencies around the world. EBSCOhost databases are usually available by institution-level subscription only, but EBSCO is making European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 available to anyone interested in European works that relate to the Americas.

While the database is freely available online at: www.europeanamericana.com, libraries may add European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 to their EBSCOhost profiles by contacting technical support at support@ebsco.com. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 will be the fourth database EBSCO has made available for free joining Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Teacher Reference Center™ and GreenFILE™.

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. 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.

About John Carter Brown Library

The John Carter Brown Library is a private, non-profit, independently funded and administered institution for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901. The Library holds one of the world's leading collections of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial period of the Americas, North and South, from 1492 to ca. 1825. Its holdings include 45,000 rare books (pre-1825 imprints) all relating to the Americas, North and South; plus early maps and prints; manuscripts; 16,000 specialized reference books (post-1825).

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~ University of Liverpool Opts for EBSCO Discovery Service™ Looking to Provide A Fresh Look for Library Resources and Easy Access for Users~

IPSWICH, Mass. —September 14, 2010 —University of Liverpool has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing as its discovery solution. The university was looking to offer a search tool that would take its users from their initial search into pertinent results via a single search box.

The library had been relying on a federated search option but was looking for a more complete solution that would provide access to local resources, including the ability to cross-search locally-owned resources with licensed resources while also including Institutional Repository content in general search results. At the same time, the library saw discovery and a single search box approach as a way to meet the needs of users who are accustomed to searching Google or Wikipedia but who really needed to find the reliable academic content in library resources.

Discovery was an interesting concept for University of Liverpool librarians and they looked to determine the issues a discovery solution would need to overcome. To the librarians at the University of Liverpool, those issues included: the difficulty end users might have being sure what the service was searching and what it wasn’t; making sure the metadata was sufficiently well-structured to make reliable OpenURL links—even difficult deep links; and finding a balanced way to treat relevancy ranking algorithms to ensure that users were seeing the most relevant results in the framework of a large, single, all-encompassing database.

In introducing a discovery service, the library was looking to cater to a wide spectrum of users from novices to more advanced users. University of Liverpool Electronic Resources Manager, Terry Bucknell says the EDS approach gave the university the best of both worlds. “On one hand we have a single search that quickly gives a useful set of relevant hits from named sources. It shows our users which sources yield the most hits so that librarians have an ‘upgrade path’ to wean users onto searching key A&I databases using advanced search techniques (e.g. MeSH for MEDLINE®). It also gives us the ability to include federated search results when we have resources that we know can’t be included in discovery tools.”

Liverpool will use EDS as the main search box on its home page along with an upgraded OPAC. The library will use the multiple profile option in EBSCO Discovery Service to provide comprehensive coverage for given subjects. University of Liverpool subject librarians want to be sure that they are directing their users to a resource that gives them comprehensive coverage without overwhelming them with irrelevant hits. With EDS, subject librarians can tweak the look and feel and provide customizable search and display options to suit ‘their’ clientele. Subject-specific LibGuides will be implemented at the University of Liverpool along with profile-specific EDS search boxes serving as anchors to more specific lists of subject resources. The library will also use EBSCOhost Integrated Search™ to add resources that cannot be locally-indexed into the discovery results.

Leveraging the well-known EBSCOhost® interface as the foundation of EBSCO Discovery Service, including resources such as SmartLinks™ and Image Quick View™, is another way EDS is able to provide comprehensive coverage for the end user. Bucknell says, “an added bonus is the way that EDS can use EBSCO-hosted content to give full-text links that are guaranteed to work and to include images from articles in search results.”

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

The Base Index for EBSCO Discovery Service forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalog, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any library’s collection.

The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world’s foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 100,000 newspaper articles, more than 20,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 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 providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than any other discovery service (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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~ New EBSCOhost® Databases Provide Comprehensive Coverage of Alternative Sources of Information ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — September 9, 2010 —Alternative Press Index™ (API) and Alternative Press Index: Archive™, new bibliographic databases from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), are now available. Alternative Press Index is one of the most extensive and up-to-date guides to alternative sources of information available today and Alternative Press Index: Archive delivers archives of the alternative sources dating back to 1969.

Alternative Press Index is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from more than 300 international alternative, radical and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, the API was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change.

With more than 330,000 records, beginning as early as 1991, API is considered the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the alternative press and critical social research available. API covers theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy, anarchism, feminism, organized labor, indigenous peoples and gay & lesbians.

Alternative Press Index: Archive provides earlier coverage from 1990 back to 1969. Other digital archives available from EBSCO include The Nation Digital Archive™, a 135-year of archive of reporting opinion and criticism, and the New Republic Archive™ containing more than 4,550 issues, with coverage dating back to 1914.

The release of these new databases adds to the collection of political science databases available from EBSCO. Political Science Complete™ contains full-text for over 480 journals with a worldwide focus, reflecting on the globalization of contemporary political discourse and International Political Science Abstracts™ includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. Other political science databases offered by EBSCO include The Left Index™ and Public Affairs Index™.

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 providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than any other discovery service (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
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kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

Leading Subscription Services Company Supports Customers’ Choice in Ordering Content

Easton, PA – September 7, 2010 Wolper Subscription Services, a leader in the information management industry for the past 35 years, fully endorses the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries (ASA) program for Library Choice. The Library Choice initiative is a collaborative effort among ASA, its members and publishers to enable libraries to take advantage of publisher deals, in terms of price and features, while remaining free to order through preferred channels and retain valuable agent services that help them to achieve their information access and management goals.

Subscription agents and publishers understand that many libraries are struggling in this challenging environment to balance their needs for the most cost-effective content package with their reliance on a subscription agent as their billing and payment partner who also provides data management services for their internal systems.

Publishers that sign a Library Choice letter pledge their support for libraries and consortia to have a choice whether to order directly with the publisher or through a subscription agent, while being able to take advantage of preferential pricing or terms negotiated by a buying group or consortium.

“The Library Choice program enables our customers to have the best of both worlds – saving money through consortial deals and reaping productivity improvements by purchasing content through us” said Susan Wolper, Wolper Subscription Services President and CEO. We are in an ideal position to continue providing unique value to librarians in academic institutions, corporations, medical and healthcare facilities, governmental agencies, public libraries and not-for-profit entities.”

Wolper offers secure, online, 24/7/365 access for searching, ordering and managing more than 300,000 periodicals and books in print and electronic format via WOLPERweb®. Wolper was the first subscription agency to bring online management tools and technology to its customers and remains the industry leader in providing robust, comprehensive and effective software tools. Wolper’s systems seamlessly interface with industry standard library automation software, online catalogs and electronic resource management systems.

About Wolper Subscription Services
Wolper is a one-stop information management resource and a certified diversity supplier - the only 100% woman-owned business in the field. For 35 years, the company has been providing service and savings to corporate, government, public, medical and academic customers. Wolper’s “high tech, high touch”® approach delivers the perfect combination of next-generation technology and time-proven, personalized service. Besides serials, Wolper also handles books, site licenses, ERM and other information solutions, both traditional and innovative. Wolper is a member of the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries, Special Libraries Association and American Library Association, among others. Learn more at www.wolper.com or contact Wolper at 610-559-9550 or inquiries@wolper.com.

About the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries (ASA)

The ASA is the international trade association serving subscriptions agents, sales agents and other intermediaries providing products and services within the professional and scholarly information supply chain. Library Choice endorses only agents who are members of the ASA as only these agents have agreed to the ASA Guidelines, industry leading standards of excellence, integrity and service innovation in information services. To find out more about Library Choice, visit the ASA website http://www.subscription-agents.org/library-choice or speak to your Wolper account representative.

~Incoming Freshmen, Graduate Students and Faculty Able to Connect to More Resources to Explore and Find Answers Faster ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — September 7, 2010 — Indiana University Bloomington (IU) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ from EBSCO Publishing to expand the purpose and functionality of its library website. The university wanted its website to provide users with the search experience they expect to find from the library—moving beyond lists of library hours and resources to actual results. The university’s long relationship with EBSCO led IU librarians to be EDS beta testers and once they saw the interface, and the potential being discussed by EBSCO, they realized that EDS might be what they needed to make their website a starting place for users.

Indiana University Associate Dean of Library Academic Services Diane Dallis says EBSCO Discovery Service is able to give users a website experience that is what they have come to expect from online search. “The interface is intuitive and helps the user drill down while guiding them to the information they want.” Dallis says the university was attempting to make the library website more functional. “We had been able to lead users to databases in the past but with EDS users can launch a search from the library website and immediately return articles and other results. This is what users have come to expect online and we are finally able to provide them with the user experience they want.” EDS functionality will enable mobile access, RSS feeds, alerts, personal folders and citation management options allowing users to be more productive within the library website.

Indiana University ran usability testing with students during the beta period and Dallis says she received comments that let her know they were on the right track. “One student tester asked whether EDS would be available right away because he had an assignment to compete that day. Comments like that let me know that with EDS we were offering our students what they were looking for from the library—a single search box that is easy to use which points the novice in the right direction while incorporating the premium resources that graduate students and faculty have come to rely on.”

The university will be able to drive users to the material in the library collection from a single search box serving the needs of the first time users while also widening the scope of search results for more advanced users. Indiana University will also use EBSCOhost Integrated Search™ (EHIS) to tie in valuable resources that are currently beyond the reach of discovery. These resources include citation-only databases renowned for their indexing that are not available from any discovery service. These are databases that graduate students and faculty rely on for their coverage of a given discipline. EHIS results can be seamlessly integrated with EDS so users performing a single search query are presented with one comprehensive list of results culled from all their electronic resources.

IU hopes to integrate EDS into the campus environment through course management systems and by using the widgets and other customization options available with the EBSCO Discovery Service. The university will use an API to integrated EDS into the library homepage while also integrating library resources throughout the university.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

The EDS Base Index forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalog, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any library’s collection.

The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world’s foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 100 million newspaper articles, more than 20,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 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 providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than any other discovery service (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
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(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
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