The comprehensive collection of French, Belgian and Swiss journals from Cairn.info is now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service. The agreement between EBSCO and Cairn.info will enable the francophone scholarly journals to extend their global reach, and enhance their discoverability, via the rich metadata and full text searching in EDS.

The release can be found on the EBSCO website at: http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/agreement-between-ebsco-and-ca... and online at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/Cairninfo/EDS/prweb10939907.htm

Agreement between EBSCO and Cairn.Info Adds French-Language Journal Content to EBSCO Discovery Service™
~ Collection Includes French-Language Academic Journals Covering Humanities and Social Sciences ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 18, 2013 — EBSCO Information Service (EBSCO) and Cairn.info have come to an agreement allowing metadata and selected full text from Cairn.info’s comprehensive collection of French, Belgian and Swiss journals to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Content from Cairn.info includes 370 French-language academic journals with 150,000 articles. Coverage dates back to 2001.

Cairn.info was formed in 2005 by four French and Belgian publishing houses (Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte and Erès) and progressively joined by more than 120 publishers dealing with francophone (French-speaking) humanities and social sciences.

Cairn.info offers the most comprehensive collection of publications in French language available online. The collection covers many disciplines appealing to a variety of users including: social sciences, humanities, economics, psychology, political science, history, philosophy and literature.
This agreement will enable the francophone scholarly journals to extend their global reach, and enhance their discoverability, via the rich metadata and full text searching in EBSCO Discovery Service.

Cairn.info is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, Nature Publishing, IEEE, ACM and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book, ABC-CLIO, The HathiTrust and many others.

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.

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (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 provides more than 375 research databases and more than 420,000 e-books plus subscription management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more than 57,000 online titles. 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. 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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Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 17 July 2013

Brill has launched a new, re-designed version of its corporate website brill.com. The new version includes a cleaner homepage layout with improved navigation, faster and more dynamic search capabilities, an improved webshop, and new dedicated pages for each of Brill’s main publishing programs.

“The wants and needs of our customers and authors guided us in the re-design process” says Ove Kähler, Head of Marketing at Brill, “and the re-design allows us to provide a better user experience to our key stakeholders: librarians, trade partners, Brill authors, and the scholarly community at large.”

The new homepage has been re-designed using a “drop down” navigation menu providing amongst other things, an instant and active overview of the main subject areas Brill publishes in. The new carousel feature draws attention to key products and important news updates, while links to Brill’s four online platforms are clearly highlighted.
The search functionality has been improved, with the emphasis on enabling faster search results as well as presenting intuitive refine and sort features and a clear, interactive search results layout.

New improvements to the webshop on brill.com include a quicker, easy-to-use log in and checkout process. Authors of Brill monographs can now purchase titles with the Brill author discount of 35% more easily, and the ability to purchase titles with a discount code has been made more transparent and customer friendly.

Each of Brill’s main subject areas now has its own dedicated page on brill.com. The pages have a number of features, and highlight each subject’s product range via a search results overview, as well as displaying new titles, conferences, relevant news (like recent award recipients, for example), and the corresponding acquisitions editors in these areas. Visitors will also be able to sign up to Brill’s revamped RSS feeds, as well as find links to subject-specific presence on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, allowing visitors another way to connect with the Brill community.

Brill encourages you to visit brill.com to see the new features and functionality firsthand. Feedback on the improvements is welcome, and can be sent to website@brill.com.

About Brill
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law, among others. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes almost 200 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. 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.com.

EBSCO and EOS International have partnered to bring more choice to libraries looking for a discovery solution. EOS users will have access to EBSCO Discovery Service's unified index that will expand the quality and amount of content available to them as well as adding the enhanced features and functionality available from EDS.

The release is below and can also be found on the EBSCO website at: http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/ebsco-and-eos-international-pa... and online at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10930010.htm

EBSCO and EOS International Partner to Enhance Library Discovery
~ Partnership Allows Mutual Customers to Take Advantage of
EBSCO Discovery Service™ and EOS Library Automation Software Products ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 16, 2013 — A new partnership between EBSCO and EOS International, a leader in cloud computing library automation software, brings more choice to libraries looking for a discovery solution. A joint development schedule will enable more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and EOS International’s suite of ILS systems benefiting mutual customers and continuing EBSCO’s partnership initiatives.

Providing access to EDS’s unified index will expand the quality and amount of content available for EOS users, adding the enhanced features and functionality available from EDS. The partnership offers library end users a choice of interfaces to begin their research creating an intuitive unified search experience.

EBSCO Chief Information Officer Michael Gorrell says as EBSCO continues to develop EDS and its interface, providing a rich discovery experience for library users who begin their research on a partner platform is part of the company’s mission. “Working with EOS International, we will be able to create an elegant solution that allows EOS users to have access to the EDS search engine, leveraging the strong metadata, the highly-refined relevancy ranking system and the features and functionality that have come to define EBSCO Discovery Service.”

EDS has quickly become the discovery service for thousands of universities around the world. EDS provides a full-featured experience for end users bringing together a comprehensive index and a single search approach while also offering a true academic and powerful environment in order to facilitate a comprehensive discovery experience.

About EOS International
EOS International is a leading world-class library information and knowledge management software and services provider with an impressive client base of libraries across the globe. A client-driven company that has earned the top customer satisfaction award and earned a nomination for the Computerworld Smithsonian award, EOS library automation software products (EOS.Web® Essentials, EOS.Web® Express, EOS.Web® Enterprise, EOS.Web® Academic, EOS.Web® Digital, EOS.Web® Legal, EOS.Web® Medical, and the cloud-computing EOS e-Library Service®) serve the stringent knowledge and content management needs of corporate, legal, medical, government, academic, digital, association and special libraries of all sizes. EOS International can be found online at http://www.eosintl.com.

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 provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. 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. 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.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
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(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebsco.com

PROVO, Utah, July 15, 2013 — The State Library of Massachusetts has partnered with Backstage Library Works in retrospective conversion, reclassification, and digitization of portions of its legislative and historical collections. The agreement is helping the library to complete a major initiative in data upgrades and physical renovations to create a wide-reaching digital collection on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts.

Some projects, because of the value, condition, or rarity of the materials, are best handled on-site at the library. That is the case with much of the State Library’s collection, so Backstage has set up shop on location providing physical reclassification, labeling, cataloging and digitizing rare and fragile manuscripts.

Backstage President, John Merrill states:

“Our folks are thrilled at the opportunity of partnering with the library staff in making these unique collections more accessible; we love the challenge of working with these kinds of materials on-site. Backstage feels especially privileged to work with the State Library in this important initiative.”

State Librarian, Albie Johnson reports:

“The State Library of Massachusetts has improved immeasurably because of the retrospective conversion, reclassification, and digital work done by Backstage Library Works.

"Thanks to our collaborative partnership with Backstage, we have already discovered many interesting items in our collections and I am looking forward to seeing what else will be discovered after the project has been completed.

"The project has proceeded smoothly through many complex and challenging stages, and a few weeks ago we reached a major milestone when the card catalog was finally removed. I believe these changes are making the library’s collections and information more accessible for our users whether they visit in person or virtually. It has given me great pride to be a part of these innovations and improvements.”

About the State Library of Massachusetts

The State Library of Massachusetts was established in 1826 to collect, deposit, and house the Commonwealth’s collections of maps, statute books, and government documents in a single central location. Since that time, the Library has grown into a multifaceted and reliable resource for legislators, executive personnel, state employees, historians, genealogists, and users from all over the world. Learn more at:

http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/

About Backstage Library Works

Backstage’s objective is to provide the most technologically advanced and efficient means for delivering professional library services. With over 25 years of experience, the company is known for its expertise in handling complex and unique projects. Backstage specializes in solutions for cataloging, authority control, digitization, preservation microfilm, and on-site needs. In providing services to more than a thousand libraries, large and small, public and private, and in locations across the globe, Backstage has cultivated an understanding of libraries, their mission, their operations, and the challenges they face. Backstage offices are located in Provo, Utah, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Contact

Richard Covington | Marketing Manager
Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Phone: 801.356.1852 | Fax: 801.356.8220
news@bslw.com | www.bslw.com

Content from EBSCO Information Services related to Middle Eastern Studies

EBSCO Enhances its Arabic Content by Improving Multilingual Search Functionality
~ Searches of Arab e-Marefa™ and Other Arabic Sources Improve with Upgrades ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 15, 2013 —EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has improved upon its already superior platforms for Middle Eastern Studies by enhancing multilingual content search technology, which will make the Arabic-language content in EBSCOhost databases and EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) more discoverable.

EBSCO products, including Arab e-Marefa™, benefit from the improvements which overcome many of the challenges that arise when performing keyword searches in the Arabic language, such as variations in spelling that can occur across the Arabic speaking world. The search engine also accounts for unique characteristics in the Arabic language by removing common prefixes and suffixes that only serve a grammatical purpose. For example, the definite article and many prepositions are attached to the word they follow; the equivalent of ‘thebook.’ The recent search enhancements allow the user who is searching for ‘book’ to find ‘thebook’ and vice versa.

Finally, it is quite common in Arabic for a noun to have an irregular (or "broken") plural, similar to English with mouse/mice or child/children. The search engine recognizes broken plurals and returns documents containing either version.

EBSCO Chief Information Officer Mike Gorrell says that the Arabic language search upgrades are part of EBSCO’s efforts to support multi-language capabilities for non-English language searches. “We have specifically focused on making significant improvements to searches of languages that include non-Roman character sets such as Arabic. As we continue to add important content, we want to make sure that the searches are producing the best results possible and incorporating the characteristics of some of the most difficult languages to search will help address that.”

These enhancements are improving the already superior platform for Middle Eastern Studies that EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service provide. In addition to Arab e-Marefa, EBSCO also offers Index Islamicus™, the premier index on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world and Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies™ and users can search Al Manhal’s eBook, eJournals, eReports and eDissertation collections via EDS.

EBSCOhost is fully Unicode compliant, enabling keyword searching for hundreds of languages.The platform provides improved language-specific searching for seven of the most common languages in EBSCOhost resources—a number that will continue to expand as development continues. These ongoing developments offer library patrons improved search results whether the search begins in EBSCO Discovery Service or EBSCOhost databases. With EDS and EBSCOhost, users can also combine search terms in multiple languages in one search.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (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 provides more than 375 research databases and more than 420,000 e-books plus subscription management services for more than 360,000 unique titles including more than 57,000 online titles. 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. 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
Vice President of Communications
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebsco.com