Leiden / Boston – 11 July 2012

In December 2011, Brill launched two new platforms: referenceworks.brillonline.com and bibliographies.brillonline.com. In the meantime, Brill decided to end the parallel running period. This means that the old platform, brillonline.nl, is no longer in use, and Brill’s reference works and bibliographies are available only on the new platforms.

All products previously on brillonline.nl have all been moved to the new platforms for reference works and bibliographies that are part of the BrillOnline.com platform family. This includes top titles such as the Encyclopeadia of Islam Online, New Pauly Online, the Index Islamicus and Religion Past and Present Online.
New products and product updates are and have already been taken place on the new platforms, e.g.

• Brill’s Coptic Gnostic Library Online – a new 2012 online publication is available on referenceworks.brillonline.com
• The Historical Atlas of Islam Online has been added to the Encyclopeadia of Islam cluster and 48 new articles have been made available online for the Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE;
• Brill’s New Jacoby has been updated, 47 historians have been added;
• International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who including Who's Who in Public International Law: the regular quarterly update has been done;
• Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG): based on customer feedback search capabilities were significantly improved (e.g. by introducing a new contents tab).

Brill invites everybody to visit and find out about the new features and benefits offered on Brill’s new platforms referenceworks.brillonline.com and bibliographies.brillonline.com.
For more information on this media alert, contact Albert Schoenmaker (Schoenmaker@brill.nl), Senior Editor Online Resources.

About BRILL (brill.nl)
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, contemporary History and History of War studies, Biblical and Religious Studies, Slavic Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, Human Rights and Public International Law. With offices in Leiden and Boston, BRILL today publishes more than 175 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. All publications are available in both print and electronic form. BRILL also markets a large number of research collections and databases with primary source material. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.nl.

~ Easy-to-Use Online Marketing Tool Designed to Help Libraries Create,
Deliver and Measure Promotional Campaigns ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 10, 2012 — EBSCO Publishing and the creators of the readers’ advisory service, NoveList® announce the launch of LibraryAware™, a new online marketing program designed to meet the growing needs of libraries to create, deliver and measure promotional messages that extend outreach into communities and bring patrons into libraries.

LibraryAware equips librarians with expert tools to reach out to patrons and help them discover the programs, products and services libraries have to offer. Librarians can combine professionally-designed templates with their own pieces of “reusable content” to carry information across an entire suite of promotional materials that can then easily be delivered to customers, community partners, elected officials and the media. LibraryAware improves upon what libraries are already doing by providing continually-updated designs and best practice recommendations as well as a way to integrate messaging easily into popular event software and social media.

With the inclusion of hundreds of images and photographs from Getty Images, one of the world’s leading creators and distributors of still imagery, video and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music, LibraryAware offers access to professional-grade art that library staff can use alongside their own locally-held collection of images. More than clip art, these images are hand-selected by the LibraryAware team of marketing professionals to address the particular communications and publicity requirements of libraries. As part of its commitment to libraries’ success, LibraryAware will continually add to the image collection based on subscriber feedback.

Libraries can spend a lot of time looking for photo images that are both appropriate and legal to use, explains LibraryAware Project Lead Nancy Dowd. “Now, with the collection of images found in LibraryAware, library staff will be able to quickly find and use great quality images. It’s an amazing savings of both time and money. Of course, they will still be able to upload their own images and use them in any piece they create. LibraryAware just simplifies the whole process.”

Users of LibraryAware will be able to:
Create professional looking designs — regardless of staff skill level
Incorporate consistent branding across promotional materials
Choose from a wide variety of continually updated designs
Learn from featured best practice recommendations/guidelines
Better equip the library to deliver messages through all free communication channels
Integrate LibraryAware with popular event management software and social media
Create and manage all promotional materials in one place

LibraryAware is available as a subscription service to libraries. Uses for the LibraryAware program include a full range of marketing and communication channels including email blasts, e-newsletters, flyers, bookmarks, brochures, website inserts, letters, invitations, and social media.

Learn more about Library Aware at: www.libraryaware.com.

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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