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    May 12th, 2011LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    ~ Direct Access to EBSCOhost® Content via iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — May 12, 2011 — Accessing EBSCOhost® content just got easier with the release of a new iPhone application from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO). Building on the success of EBSCOhost® Mobile, a website application designed for Internet capable mobile devices including smartphones, the new iPhone application (app) provides a quick and convenient way for Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users to access quality content via EBSCOhost.

    The new iPhone app, available free from the iTunes App Store, offers easy authentication for users via a library’s EBSCOhost profile. New features include the ability to view content in visual landscape mode and the option to save articles and PDF full-text content on the device for offline viewing. The app also includes existing EBSCOhost features bringing the most popular and useful functionality to researchers. These features include limiting to full text, date ranges, peer-reviewed content or by publication.

    EBSCO Publishing’s Senior Director of Software Product Management, Ron Burns, says improving the reach of EBSCOhost content for customers was the goal behind this initiative. “By delivering EBSCOhost in an interactive and fun mobile experience, the iPhone application makes it possible for customers to access the information they need at a time that is convenient for them.”

    Clicking into a result replicates the EBSCOhost user experience providing researchers with abstracts and links to full text, as well as key citation information such as source, authors, and subject terms which are all easily clickable to launch new searches. Users also have the ability to save and email articles as well as store PDFs for offline viewing. The result list is scrollable, can be refined by subject and publication facets and can be sorted by relevancy or date. Available data in the result list includes citations and access to full-text articles.

    The interface has been simplified for increased speed and user convenience. EBSCO currently offers a mobile app for DynaMed™, a point-of-care resource. Future apps will include an EBSCOhost app for Android devices, iPhone apps for Business Book Summaries™ and Nursing Reference Center™ and eBook reader apps.

    More information is available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/mobile-access.

    About EBSCO Publishing
    EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost, the world’s premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and eBooks. The company provides more than 300 databases and nearly 300,000 e-books. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of 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
    Public Relations Manager
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebscohost.com