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    January 31st, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    ~ Nursing Reference Center Plus™ and DynaMed Plus® Rated Top Point-of-Care Clinical Reference Tools by Healthcare Providers~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — January 31, 2018 — Two EBSCO Health clinical resources were named among the top performing point-of-care reference tools in the 2018 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report. KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors, found that Nursing Reference Center Plus™ and DynaMed Plus® were among the top performing clinical decision support – point of care clinical reference tools, with Nursing Reference Center Plus ranked number one and DynaMed Plus coming in as a close second.

    KLAS interviews thousands of healthcare professionals and uses the responses to rate point-of-care Disease Reference and Diagnostic Support tools. Evaluation questions cover several areas, including Sales and Contracting, Implementation and Training, Functionality and Upgrades, and Service and Support.

    Nursing Reference Center Plus is EBSCO Health’s point-of-care resource, designed by nurses for nurses. With Nursing Reference Center Plus, users get instant access to the most current evidence-based answers to their clinical questions, high-quality continuing education modules, tools to develop and improve nursing skills and more. DynaMed Plus is EBSCO Health’s flagship evidence-based information resource designed to reduce time to answer for clinicians and provide the most useful information to healthcare professionals at the point of care.

    EBSCO Health’s Senior Vice President of Product Management, Betsy Jones, says the KLAS report reinforces EBSCO Health’s commitment to providing the top clinical reference tools to meet the needs of its users. “Clinicians need to access the most accurate information at the point of care to foster a successful patient experience and meet the needs of their patients. We’re encouraged to hear that healthcare professionals place these resources at the top of their list, from service to technology to support.”

    More information about EBSCO Health’s clinical decision support solutions is available at https://health.ebsco.com.

    About KLAS
    KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers and payers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals, KLAS gathers insights on software, services and medical equipment to deliver timely reports, trending data and statistical overviews. KLAS data is accurate, honest and impartial. The research directly represents the voice of healthcare professionals and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS and the insights we provide, visit www.KLASresearch.com.

    About EBSCO Health
    EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, is a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions, healthcare business intelligence, and medical research information for the healthcare industry. EBSCO Health users include professionals in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Flagship products include CINAHL®, DynaMed Plus®, Nursing Reference Center Plus™, clinical e-books and e-journals, EBSCO Discovery Service™, licensed databases (such as MEDLINE®), plus EBSCONET®. EBSCO Health databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the electronic resource favored by libraries around the world.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Jessica Holmes
    Communications Director
    978-356-6500 ext. 3485
    jmholmes@ebsco.com

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    January 30th, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    ~ Annual Scholarship Pays for the Travel Expenses of Librarians
    Attending National Conference ~

    IPSWICH, Mass. — January 30, 2018 —EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has awarded five librarians, including two first-time attendees, $1,500 scholarships to attend the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting, February 9th-13th in Denver, Colorado. The scholarships are co-sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). The scholarship recipients will be honored by EBSCO and ALA representatives at a breakfast during the conference.

    The EBSCO ALA Midwinter Scholarship finances the cost of attending the conference and allows the librarians to benefit from the professional development and networking opportunities available at the conference. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write an essay on the topic of “In a world where libraries may be underappreciated, how do you advocate for libraries and how do you think libraries can better advocate for themselves within their communities or institutions?”

    The scholarship winners are:

    • Chelsea Brantley, Media Coordinator, Nags Head Elementary School, Nags Head, North Carolina

    • Natalie Burclaff, Head of Information Literacy Initiatives, Reference Department, University of Baltimore; Baltimore, Maryland

    • Rosa Diaz, Children’s Librarian, Lincoln Branch Library, Rochester, New York

    • Loren Klein, Coordinator of Transgender and Non-Binary Programs & Services, Rockland County Pride Center, Norwood, New Jersey

    • Veronica Milliner, Outreach Librarian, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    All of the librarians effectively described the ways in which libraries can better advocate their mission of serving the needs of researchers and patrons. Chelsea Brantley, Media Coordinator at Nags Head Elementary School, believes “the key to promoting libraries in today’s society is to redefine people’s perceptions of the space. Libraries are not silent, dusty locales full of authoritarian librarians. Instead, they are bustling community centers where all types of learning, researching, creating, and discovering can take place.” First-time conference attendee Rosa Diaz, Children’s Librarian at Lincoln Branch Library, wrote “gone are the days when libraries could ‘afford’ to wait for patrons to enter, use the library and participate in programs. We need to go and seek patrons. It is about collaborating with local agencies and showcasing what the library has to offer.”

    EBSCO is dedicated to supporting the professional development of librarians around the world and has a long-standing tradition of co-sponsoring scholarships to ALA conferences, providing funds for conference registration, travel, and expenses.

    About ALA
    The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit professional organization of more than 65,000 librarians, library trustees, and other friends of libraries dedicated to providing and improving library services and promoting the public interest in a free and open information society: www.ala.org.

    About EBSCO Information Services
    EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 11,000 discovery customers in over 100 countries. EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) provides each institution with a comprehensive, single search box for its entire collection, offering unparalleled relevance ranking quality and extensive customization. EBSCO is also the preeminent provider of online research content for libraries, including hundreds of research databases, historical archives, point-of-care medical reference, and corporate learning tools serving millions of end users at tens of thousands of institutions. EBSCO is the leading provider of electronic journals & books for libraries, with subscription management for more than 360,000 serials, including more than 57,000 e-journals, as well as online access to more than 900,000 e-books. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a family owned company since 1944.

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    For more information, please contact:
    Kathleen McEvoy
    Vice President of Communications
    (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
    kmcevoy@ebsco.com

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    January 25th, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    DULUTH, Ga., Jan. 24, 2018 -- Equinox is pleased to announce that Niagara Falls Public Library in Ontario, Canada successfully migrated to Evergreen.

    Niagara Falls Public Library serves the City of Niagara Falls residents including 31,208 patrons and a collection encompassing 138,317 bibliographic records. Equinox provided data migration, policy configuration, project management and training services.

    "Equinox has demonstrated their commitment to the Open Library Initiative, by providing extensive consulting services, guidance, and advice throughout the transition process,” said Christopher Dunn, Manager of Library Service Spaces, Niagara Falls Public Library. “Their team of exceptionally professional, talented, and committed staff, have ensured that our move to the Evergreen system has been as seamless and transparent as possible."

    Rogan Hamby, Equinox Data and Project Analyst, assisted Niagara Falls Public Library with their migration. "Working with the Niagara Falls staff has been a real pleasure during this migration,” he said. “The professionalism, acumen and positivity at each step has been wonderful. I'm excited to have them join the greater Evergreen community and see the benefits that this migration brings to their professional services and staff.”

    About Equinox Open Library Initiative
    Equinox Open Library Initiative Inc. is a nonprofit company engaging in literary, charitable, and educational endeavors serving cultural and knowledge institutions. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., the Initiative carries forward a decade of service and experience with Evergreen and other open source library software. At Equinox OLI we help you empower your library with open source technologies. To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxinitiative.org/.

    About Evergreen
    Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed to provide an open source product able to meet the diverse needs of consortia and high transaction public libraries. However, it has proven to be equally successful in smaller installations including special and academic libraries. Today, over 1500 libraries around the world are using Evergreen including NC Cardinal, SC Lends, and B.C. Sitka. For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.

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    January 22nd, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Leiden / Boston / Paderborn / Singapore / Beijing – 22 January 2018

    Brill is very pleased to announce that the journal Dead Sea Discoveries will be indexed and abstracted in:

    Arts and Humanities Citation Index®
    Current Contents®/Arts & Humanities

    Now in its 25th volume, Dead Sea Discoveries has established itself as an invaluable resource for the subject both in the private collections of professors and scholars as well as in the major research libraries of the world. We are very happy that with the indexing and abstracting we can meet the needs of the scientific and scholarly research community. To celebrate 25 years of Dead Sea Discoveries, 25 articles – one per volume – will be freely accessible in 2018. These articles will be announced in Brill’s Biblical Studies and Early Christianity Newsletters (http://www.brill.com/email-newsletters) and on the Dead Sea Discoveries web page: http://www.brill.com/dsd.

    For more information on this media alert please contact Suzanne Mekking, Sr. Acquisitions Editor, at mekking@brill.com.

    For customer queries please contact your regular distributor or directly contact Brill sales and customer services for journals: brill@turpin-distribution.com, T: +44 (0)1767 604 954.

    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, Education, Biology, and International Law. With offices in Leiden (NL), Boston (US), Paderborn (GER) Singapore (SG) and Beijing (CN), Brill today publishes over 270 journals and close to 1,400 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.

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    January 18th, 2018LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    Leiden / Boston / Paderborn / Singapore / Beijing – 18 January 2018

    The Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, previously published by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship (Brigham Young University), has transferred its publishing activities to Brill, the international scholarly publishing house.

    The Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI) is a collection of four different series: the Islamic Translation Series, Eastern Christian Texts, the Library of Judeo-Arabic Literature, and the Medical Works of Moses Maimonides. In the last two decades, scholars have published over 35 volumes in these series, covering editions, translations, and publications of important texts from the golden age of the Middle East, including mystical, theological, philosophical, and medical works by Muslims, Jews, and Christians alike.

    “The Middle Eastern Texts Initiative is an exciting project which is run by an impressive group of scholars. Brill is delighted to offer METI a new home,” says Maurits van den Boogert, Senior Acquisitions Editor Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Brill.

    Brill adds METI to its publishing portfolios in Religious Studies and Middle East and Islamic Studies, and it fits well with Brill's publication activities on the Islamic world. The transfer of METI to Brill allows the Initiative to continue its important work. The first volume published by Brill – Gerrit Bos, On Coitus, a new volume in the Medical Works of Moses Maimonides series – will become available in 2018, as an e-book and in print. Previously published volumes will remain available via BYU’s regular sales channels.

    For more information about the transfer contact Mr. Maurits van den Boogert, Sr. Acquisitions Editor at Brill, via boogert@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, Education, Biology, and International Law. With offices in Leiden (NL), Boston (US), Paderborn (GER) Singapore (SG) and Beijing (CN), Brill today publishes over 270 journals and close to 1,400 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.

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