Farmington Hills, Mich., May 31, 2012 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced Classroom in Context (CLiC), a curriculum-based family of resources designed to supplement textbooks and enhance learning with authoritative, media-rich content from Gale’s award-winning In Context product suite.

Evolved from Gale’s successful custom digital curriculum alignment program, in which Gale worked directly with schools to create online learning portals, CLiC is designed to increase student engagement, provide teachers with current digital content, and help school administrators make the transition to digital curriculum. Delivered through a unique portal experience, CLiC also has the flexibility to be easily integrated into an existing Learning Management System (LMS). Since CLiC can be used in the classroom, students can follow along and conduct research as they go, which also helps librarians accelerate usage of library products.

“After experiencing widespread success with our custom digital curriculum program, we wanted to create an easy way for schools to purchase courses off the shelf for the most-studied subjects,” said Peter Scott, publisher, classroom and library solutions, Gale. “With CLiC, we are offering districts an instructional path to robust digital content and an engaging platform for twenty-first century learners, while also bridging the gap from the library to classroom.”

CLiC resources are aligned to universal themes, units and topics found in national and state curriculum frameworks and many nationally-adopted textbooks. The national curriculum framework provides core learning goals, including real world skills and knowledge that students need to be successful after they graduate. By utilizing CLiC, administrators, librarians and teachers can ensure they’re preparing students for college and real world challenges. With options to customize content selection and add new content, CLiC is a powerful and highly versatile tool for any classroom.

“Gale’s custom designed Earth Science portal is revolutionizing the way we teach and learn about Earth Science in Rockville Centre,” said Chris Pellettieri, assistant superintendent, Rockville Centre Schools, and one of the first adopters of Gale’s custom digital curriculum program. “Our students are currently utilizing true twenty-first century skills by working in a safe, vetted, up-to-date portal, chock full of informational text, video, podcasts and the like, all from an abundance of rich sources and all at the click of a button.”

The CLiC product suite currently includes high school Biology, Chemistry, U.S History and World History, with Earth Science and Government underway. Customers that purchase CLiC resources are provided with unlimited school-wide and remote access anytime, anywhere with an internet connection.

To learn more about CLiC or to request a free trial, visit http://www.gale.cengage.com/clic or contact Kristina Massari at kristina.massari@cengage.com.

About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats. For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.cengage.com.

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~EBSCO SmartLinks+™ extends the unrivaled power of EBSCOhost® SmartLinks™ to libraries’ e-packages and e-journals~

Birmingham, Ala. – May 31, 2012 – EBSCO now offers EBSCO SmartLinks+™, a tool designed to help librarians expose more content and make searches more relevant within their library’s collection. SmartLinks+ utilizes a knowledge base of more than 23 million article links from more than 15,000 journals, dynamically inserting the appropriate links to full text directly into EBSCOhost® search results. EBSCO has developed an advanced rights-and-identity engine that triangulates the availability, ownership, and location of full text — providing the pre-validated links that appear for articles in the e-packages and e-journals to which a library subscribes through EBSCO. With this vast amount of continuously updated article-level metadata, librarians ensure that their users have seamless access to their library’s online subscriptions.

When a library subscribes to e-journals via EBSCO and one or more databases on the EBSCOhost Research Databases platform, SmartLinks+ can be automatically enabled — a benefit that makes librarians’ jobs easier and ensures that users can access all of the library’s full-text content. The unequaled linking provided through SmartLinks+, combined with the broad subject discipline coverage available in more than 350 EBSCOhost databases, creates an even more powerful tool for researchers. And when users are able to find full text easily within the library’s e-packages and e-journals, they are more likely to make library resources their first choice for research — significantly increasing the usage of the library’s content.

About EBSCO
EBSCO encompasses EBSCO Information Services and EBSCO Publishing, both divisions of EBSCO Industries Inc. EBSCO Information Services, the provider of EBSCONET® Subscription Management, is the world’s leading information intermediary, offering consultative services and cutting-edge technology for managing and accessing content, including e-journals, e-packages, e-books, and more. Today’s libraries and research organizations are looking for new ways to manage their collections more efficiently, so EBSCO Information Services has developed comprehensive, highly integrated management solutions to help librarians save time and money while empowering their users.

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 e-books. In addition to offering more than 375 databases and nearly 300,000 e-books, the company also provides the industry-leading EBSCO Discovery Service™. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO Publishing serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, and others).

EBSCO serves clients through our 30 offices worldwide and has more than 140 librarians on staff. To learn more about products and services from EBSCO and EBSCO Publishing, visit www.ebsco.com and www.ebscohost.com.

For more information, please contact:
Rossi Morris|Media Relations Coordinator|EBSCO
P: 205-980-3885|rmorris@ebsco.com
www.twitter.com/EBSCOInfoSvcs

~ Millions of Historical and Contemporary Images from the Associated Press to be Available via EBSCOhost® and EBSCO Discovery Service™ ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — May 31, 2012 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) will make millions of images from the Associated Press (AP) available to library customers. EBSCO has been named the sole library distributor of the AP Images, the commercial photo unit of AP. It is one of the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery including more than twelve million photographs dating back more than 100 years.

AP Images Collection is a primary source database with millions of images from 1826 to present and more than 3,500 additional photographs are added daily. The collection also includes 36,400 audio sound bytes dating from the 1920s and more than 2,900 multimedia interactives. The multimedia interactives represent a compilation of integrated video, graphics and photos that bring the latest news and educational topics to life. In addition, AP Images Collection provides 2.7 million Associated Press news stories from 1997 to present, and a professionally produced collection of more than 340,000 maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags and illustrations.

The archive is currently available on AP Images.com but the eventual migration to EBSCOhost® will benefit customers accessing the content through EBSCOhost as well as EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). AP Images Collection via EBSCOhost and EDS will provide a greater search experience for the end user with millions of images integrated into results.

Libraries using EBSCO Discovery Service that purchase AP Images Collection will add a rich database of images that will complement results from other image providers, as well as results from journals, magazines, newspapers, newswires, e-books, print books, conference proceedings, video and other sources types. EDS is by far the most comprehensive discovery service for magazine, journal and e-book searching, and this extensive collection from Associated Press, when teamed with other collections, means that EDS will also be the most comprehensive discovery service for images.

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 e-books. The company provides more than 350 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 Director
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

Wolper’s Web Presence Now Accompanied by Social Media Outreach

EASTON, PA (May 30, 2012) – Content was appropriately the headliner today as a leading solutions provider in the information management industry, Wolper Information Services, launched its new online presence with a redesigned website, a new blog, and an emphasis on social media.

The new website aims to provide the perfect balance of ease-of-use with a content-rich experience all the while maintaining aesthetic appeal. The new Wolper.com follows on the heels of last year’s re-launch of Wolper’s proprietary custom, cloud-based account management system, WOLPERweb®, which was named a finalist by KMWorld magazine for the KM Promise Award and launched Wolper onto the EContent 100 list of “companies that matter most in the digital content industry.”

“Our new website is in line with Wolper’s tradition of smart, tech-savvy, customer-focused design,” said Susan Wolper, President and CEO of Wolper Information Services. “Most impressively, this site has been created around the idea of solutions to real-world challenges in this fast-changing information marketplace. That’s what we provide and this site conveys it more completely and dynamically.”

“Our old website was more of an online brochure. Though it told the Wolper story, it wasn’t nearly as content-rich,” Didi Yunginger, Wolper’s Chief Marketing Officer, commented. “This new site provides some valuable, even vendor-neutral resources for information professionals and others looking to better understand and manage the needs around organizational content assets, including an extensive, curated list of Useful Links. It also gives visitors an opportunity to engage with us, which really is what websites in 2012 should be. This website simply reiterates our ‘High Tech-High Touch’, customer-centric philosophy.”

With the web site re-launch, Wolper rolls out its blog Insight and Outlook, www.wolper.com/blog, which is a collaborative effort by Wolper’s entire leadership team, with weekly posts on trends and topics of interest in the information and publishing industries, the library profession, and the digital technology sphere.

The website and integrated blog will be at the hub of a complete social marketing program, including a presence on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, initially.

Find Wolper at:
Twitter.com/WolperInfoSvcs
Facebook.com/WolperInformationServices
LinkedIn.com/company/Wolper-Information-Services

About Wolper Information Services
For more than 35 years, Wolper has been a one-stop information management resource and the only 100% woman-owned business in the industry. The company provides selection, service and savings to corporate, academic, research, medical, government, public and consortia customers. Wolper’s High Tech, High Touch® approach delivers the perfect balance of next-generation technology and time-proven, personalized service. Besides serials, Wolper also handles books and e-books, print and electronic, domestic and foreign, site licenses, ERM and other information solutions. In 2011-12, Wolper was named to the EContent 100 list of “companies that matter most in the digital content industry” and Wolper’s proprietary, custom, cloud-based content management software was a finalist for the KMWorld Magazine KM Promise Award. Wolper also received the Bronze Award for Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year from the 2012 Stevie Awards. Learn more at www.wolper.com. (See the Useful Links mentioned in this press release at www.wolper.com/infonews/useful-links/ .)
 

~ EDS Chosen to Provide Better Discoverability of Institution’s Resources and Increase Online Usage ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — May 29, 2012 — Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE in Australia has chosen EBSCO Publishing’s EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) to allow students and staff better discoverability of the institution’s resources and to increase online usage. The institute also believes that EDS will be advantageous in attracting potential students by providing the latest innovative technology.

EDS will play a significant part in helping the library at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE achieve its goal to serve all the students’ technology needs. Systems and Knowledge Management Librarian, Susan Bodenham, says, “Part of our strategic plan is to look at improving the student experience and meet their expectations regarding contemporary searching techniques and we feel that EDS will help us meet these expectations.”

Bodenham says they looked at a number of discovery solutions and conducted surveys and focus groups to determine which solution would fit their needs the best. “Results from our surveys and focus groups indicated that users wanted a more “Google-like” experience.” Bodenham added, “With EDS, our higher education students and staff will be able to gather all resources in their specific field of study, and our vocational students will have a simpler way of discovering relevant resources.”

According to Bodenham, Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE is also taking advantage of some of the customizability options within EDS to tie the discovery service into the look and feel of the library. “We have placed our branding and colors into EDS to ensure consistency with our other web pages and we will be investigating chat and other widgets once we gain more familiarity with what can be done to enhance the library experience for our students and staff.” The Institute has also taken the opportunity to name the discovery service FindIt@NMIT.

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 expands 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 more than 64,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 320 million newspaper articles, nearly 400,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

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 e-books. The company provides more than 350 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 Director
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com