The American College of Physicians and DynaMed intend on sharing evidence-based content to take advantage of shared expertise. The details are below. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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EBSCO Announces Intent to Collaborate with the American College of Physicians to Improve Physician Access to Evidence-Based Resources
~ EBSCO Intends to Collaborate with American College of Physicians to bring Expertise, Content and Multimedia to EBSCO’s Evidence-Based Clinical Point-of-Care Resources ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — May 6, 2013 — EBSCO announces the intent to collaborate with the American College of Physicians (ACP) around evidence-based expertise. If formalized, the multi-year collaboration will bring thousands of American College of Physician images, figures and tables to EBSCO’s evidence-based clinical resources such as DynaMed™. Under the terms of the intended collaboration, EBSCO would provide ACP access to DynaMed’s evidence-based clinical summaries and access to the systematic literature surveillance that has distinguished DynaMed among other point-of-care resources.

EBSCO and ACP plan to share content in order to take advantage of shared expertise in evidence-based clinical content. DynaMed will make available to ACP its systematic literature surveillance and guideline updates, and ACP may incorporate some of DynaMed’s content into some educational resources.

EBSCO Senior Vice President of Product Management Stratton Lloyd says study after study shows that DynaMed has created a methodology to provide both currency and relevancy and the intended collaboration with ACP adds additional expertise and unique content. “The intended collaboration represents a joint effort between EBSCO and the American College of Physicians to push, promote and prescribe an approach to evidence-based medicine that benefits clinicians, patients and the practice of medicine.”

The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organization, representing 133, 000 internal medicine physicians (internists). Internists are specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness. ACP also publishes Annals of Internal Medicine, one of the five most widely cited peer reviewed medical journals in the world.

ACP Vice President of Publishing, Diane Scott-Lichter, says the intended collaboration will be mutually beneficial to both EBSCO and ACP. “ACP and DynaMed have a commitment to evidence-based medicine and by sharing expertise we hope to contribute to improving the practice of medicine and the care of patients.”

About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and 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. EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Social Work Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, 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 website at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States. Follow DynaMed on Twitter at @DynaMed_POC (https://twitter.com/DynaMed_POC).

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

Social Work Reference Center is a new evidence-based point-of-care resource available from EBSCO. It is geared for a wide-range of health professionals and is designed to provide the most current evidence for patient care.

EBSCO Releases Social Work Reference Center™ Bringing Evidence-Based Information to Social Workers
~ Latest Evidence-Based Information for Clinical Practice,
Education and Research at the Point-of-Care ~

IPSWICH, Mass. / BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — May 2, 2013 — Social Work Reference Center™ (SWRC), a resource designed specifically for clinical practice, education and research, is the latest addition to the point-of-care product line from EBSCO. Social Work Reference Center is a comprehensive reference tool that provides evidence-based information to social workers and other mental health professionals directly at the point-of-care.

Designed to increase the speed and accuracy of decisions and provide the most current evidence for patient care, Social Work Reference Center, will appeal to hospital and healthcare providers, corporate provider networks, religious and nonprofit organizations, government agencies, school agencies and institutions that provide social services education programs.

Social Work Reference Center provides the latest evidence-based information through a variety of content types including evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and skill competency checklists. The resource also includes clinical assessment tools, practice guidelines, drug information, continuing education modules and patient education information.

The evidence-based information provided by Social Work Reference Center stems from a seven-step evidence-based methodology to systematically identify and critically appraise all clinical content. Literature surveillance occurs daily and topics are updated as evidence changes.

For more information about Social Work Reference Center and EBSCO’s other point-of-care resources please go to: http://www.ebscohost.com/pointOfCare/point-of-care-resources.

About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and 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. EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, 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 Web site at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO 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@ebsco.com

North Bethesda, MD, May 1, 2013- The La Veta Public Library, located in La Veta, Colorado and a member of the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), is now live in the AspenCat LibLime Koha Union Catalog for all collection and patron management services.

The La Veta Public Library staff worked with LibLime Project Managers to migrate bibliographic, item, and patron data from their legacy ILS system. With the addition of the La Veta Public Library to CLiC, there are now over 627,000 items and over 368,000 bibliographic records in the CLiC LibLime Koha Union Catalog.

About the La Veta Public Library
La Veta Public Library District’s goal is to assemble and organize services, collections of materials, and other resources to meet the information needs and interests of the people it serves and to provide free access to diverse ideas in a variety of formats. In its efforts to fulfill the mission statement, the La Veta Public Library hosts various events for the La Veta community every month including: yoga, adult and teen programs, and Brown Bag Books, a series of book discussions held over lunch. The library has been serving their community since it was first started in 1974.

About the Pioneer Consortium
CLiC, headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, serves over 400 libraries throughout the state. 35 of these libraries are part of the AspenCat LibLime Koha Union Catalog. Currently the database includes over 627,000 items. Resource sharing is one of the key components of the system with libraries requesting over 1,200 items from each other every month. Requests are growing as more patrons discover how easy it is to request an item not held at his or her home library. CLiC is committed to maintaining AspenCat as a fully featured, patron-focused system. In partnership with the Colorado State Library, they have added links to external databases using EzProxy, Plinket-hosted website access, and SWIFT interconnectivity. They are also currently offering a cooperative purchase for downloadable audio books from Recorded Books, and ebooks from the 3M Library Cloud system. For more information, please contact Shannon O'Grady at 303-422-1150 or SOGrady@clicweb.org.

About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.