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'''EBSCO Information Services''', headquartered in [[Ipswich, Massachusetts]], is a division of [[EBSCO Industries|EBSCO Industries Inc.]], a private company headquartered in [[Birmingham, Alabama]]. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of very many types around the world. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCO''host'', which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives. In 2010, EBSCO introduced its ''EBSCO Discovery Service'' (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/The-New-and-Improved-EBSCO-Information-Services-89991.asp/ |title=The New and Improved EBSCO Information Services |journal=Information Today |date=2013}}</ref>
'''EBSCO Information Services''', headquartered in [[Ipswich, Massachusetts]], is a division of [[EBSCO Industries|EBSCO Industries Inc.]], a private company headquartered in [[Birmingham, Alabama]]. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of many types around the world. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCO''host'', which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, [[Point of care medical information summary|point-of-care medical references]], and an array of historical digital archives. In 2010, EBSCO introduced its ''EBSCO Discovery Service'' (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/The-New-and-Improved-EBSCO-Information-Services-89991.asp/ |title=The New and Improved EBSCO Information Services |journal=Information Today |date=2013}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
EBSCO Information Services is a division of [[EBSCO Industries|EBSCO Industries Inc.]], a company founded in 1944 by [[Elton Bryson Stephens Sr.]] and headquartered in [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], Alabama. "EBSCO" is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Company. EBSCO Industries has annual sales of about $3 billion. It is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama and one of the top 200 in the United States, based on revenues and employee numbers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/21/biz_06privates_The-Largest-Private-Companies_Company_5.html |work=Forbes |date=November 9, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509032000/http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/21/biz_06privates_The-Largest-Private-Companies_Company_5.html |archive-date=May 9, 2007 |title=The Largest Private Companies |url-status=live |access-date=July 14, 2020}}</ref>
EBSCO Information Services is a division of [[EBSCO Industries|EBSCO Industries Inc.]], a company founded in 1944 by [[Elton Bryson Stephens Sr.]] and headquartered in [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], Alabama. "EBSCO" is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Company. EBSCO Industries has annual sales of about $3 billion. It is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama and one of the top 200 in the United States, based on revenues and employee numbers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/21/biz_06privates_The-Largest-Private-Companies_Company_5.html |work=[[Forbes]] |date=November 9, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509032000/http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/21/biz_06privates_The-Largest-Private-Companies_Company_5.html |archive-date=May 9, 2007 |title=The Largest Private Companies |url-status=live |access-date=July 14, 2020}}</ref>


EBSCO Information Services originated in 1984 as a print publication called ''Popular Magazine Review'', featuring article abstracts from more than 300 magazines. In 1987 the company was purchased by EBSCO Industries and its name was changed to '''EBSCO Publishing'''. It employed around 750 people by 2007.<ref>{{cite web |author=Brynko, Barbara |url= http://www.infotoday.com/it/mar11/Collins-EBSCOs-Mission-of-Growth.shtml |title=Collins: EBSCO's Mission of Growth |year=2011}}</ref> In 2003 it acquired Whitston Publishing, another database provider.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://librarytechnology.org/news/pr.pl?id=16581 |title=EBSCO acquires Whitston Publishing Company |date=24 September 2003 |journal=Library Technology Guides |access-date=2 April 2016}}</ref> In 2010 EBSCO purchased NetLibrary and in 2011 it took over [[H. W. Wilson Company]].<ref>{{cite press release |url= http://www.hwwilson.com/news/newsPressDetails.cfm?pressID=161 |title=EBSCO Publishing and The H.W. Wilson Company Make Joint Announcement of Merger Agreement |work=hwwilson.com |date=June 1, 2011 |access-date=August 24, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/1229/6014058a.html |work=Forbes |first=William P. |last=Barrett |date=December 29, 1997 |title=Mousetrapped|access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/hw-wilson-company/ |work=The New York Times |title=H.W. Wilson Company}}</ref> EBSCO Publishing merged with EBSCO Information Services on July 1, 2013, with the merged business operating as EBSCO Information Services.<ref>{{cite press release |title=EBSCO Publishing and EBSCO Information Services merge |date=May 22, 2013 |publisher=EBSCO Industries |url= https://www.ebsco.com/news-center/press-releases/ebsco-publishing-and-ebsco-information-services-merge |access-date=July 13, 2020}}</ref> In 2015 EBSCO acquired YBP (Yankee Book Peddler) Library Services from [[Baker & Taylor]], and later renamed it GOBI Library Solutions.<ref name="bookseller">{{cite news|title=EBSCO acquires YBP|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/ebsco-acquires-ybp|access-date=5 March 2018|work=The Bookseller|date=23 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="gobi">{{cite web|title=GOBI Library Solutions|url=https://gobi.ebsco.com/|publisher=EBSCO|access-date=5 March 2018}}</ref> {{As of|2017}}, the President is Tim Collins.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebsco.com/about/leadership |title=About: Leadership |publisher=EBSCO Information Services |access-date=14 October 2016}}</ref>
EBSCO Information Services originated in 1984 as a print publication called ''Popular Magazine Review'', featuring article abstracts from more than 300 magazines. In 1987 the company was purchased by EBSCO Industries and its name was changed to '''EBSCO Publishing'''. It employed around 750 people by 2007.<ref>{{cite web |author=Brynko, Barbara |url= http://www.infotoday.com/it/mar11/Collins-EBSCOs-Mission-of-Growth.shtml |title=Collins: EBSCO's Mission of Growth |year=2011}}</ref> In 2003, it acquired Whitston Publishing, another database provider.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://librarytechnology.org/news/pr.pl?id=16581 |title=EBSCO acquires Whitston Publishing Company |date=24 September 2003 |journal=Library Technology Guides |access-date=2 April 2016}}</ref> In 2010 EBSCO purchased NetLibrary and in 2011 it took over [[H. W. Wilson Company]].<ref>{{cite press release |url= http://www.hwwilson.com/news/newsPressDetails.cfm?pressID=161 |title=EBSCO Publishing and The H.W. Wilson Company Make Joint Announcement of Merger Agreement |work=hwwilson.com |date=June 1, 2011 |access-date=August 24, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/1229/6014058a.html |work=Forbes |first=William P. |last=Barrett |date=December 29, 1997 |title=Mousetrapped|access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/hw-wilson-company/ |work=The New York Times |title=H.W. Wilson Company|date=3 February 2009 }}</ref> EBSCO Publishing merged with EBSCO Information Services on July 1, 2013, with the merged business operating as EBSCO Information Services.<ref>{{cite press release |title=EBSCO Publishing and EBSCO Information Services merge |date=May 22, 2013 |publisher=EBSCO Industries |url= https://www.ebsco.com/news-center/press-releases/ebsco-publishing-and-ebsco-information-services-merge |access-date=July 13, 2020}}</ref> In 2015 EBSCO acquired YBP (Yankee Book Peddler) Library Services from [[Baker & Taylor]], and later renamed it GOBI Library Solutions.<ref name="bookseller">{{cite news|date=23 February 2015|title=EBSCO acquires YBP|work=The Bookseller|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/ebsco-acquires-ybp|url-status=dead|access-date=5 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222124015/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/ebsco-acquires-ybp|archive-date=22 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="gobi">{{cite web|title=GOBI Library Solutions|url=https://gobi.ebsco.com/|publisher=EBSCO|access-date=5 March 2018}}</ref> {{As of|2017}}, the President is Tim Collins.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebsco.com/about/leadership |title=About: Leadership |publisher=EBSCO Information Services |access-date=14 October 2016}}</ref>


Metapress was founded in 1998 as an [[Electronic publishing|online publication platform]] for content creators to produce and host their printed journal editions online.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Item/MetaPress-to-Become-Primary-Host-for-Taylor-and-Francis-Group-Journals-3921.htm |title=Taylor and Francis Journal Host | work=EContent | date=January 10, 2003}}</ref> A division of EBSCO,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infotoday.com/it/jun03/jacso.shtml|title=Digital Facilitators |publisher=infotoday.com |access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> the platform became one of the world's largest scholarly content hosts,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/news/news/pressreleases2009/june2009/newsite_techsource |title=ALA TechSource launches new Web site |publisher=ALA.org|date= 2009-06-05|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> with over 31,000 publications<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Services/2008-09-24-metapress |title=UK Federation Providers |publisher=ukfederation.org.uk |access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> from over 180 publishers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/std/38396405.pdf |title=Statistics Dissemination Project|publisher=oecd.org |access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> Its customers and partners included [[Princeton University|Princeton]],<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/lossless.data.pdf |title=Princeton content |publisher=princeton.edu |access-date=2016-07-02}}</ref> [[Inderscience Publishers|Inderscience]],<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.inderscience.com/newplatform/ |title=Metapress platform |publisher=Inderscience |access-date=2016-07-02}}</ref> [[UCLA]]'s AASC Press,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/aj.aspx|title=AASC UCLA Press|publisher=aasc.ucla.edu |access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> and [[North Carolina State University]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ld/onld/00000027.html |title=NC State University publishers |publisher=lib.ncsu.edu |access-date=2016-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchinformation.info/feature/meta-press |title=Research Information feature |publisher=researchinformation.info |access-date=2016-07-02}}</ref> Publishers included the [[National Association for Music Education]], [[Academy of Management]], [[World Scientific]], and [[IOS Press]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263153161|title=Interview with Michael Margotta|journal=The Charleston Advisor|volume=5|date= January 2003|access-date=2016-09-23|last1=Brunning|first1=Dennis}}</ref> Atypon acquired the Metapress business from EBSCO in 2014, with the Metapress platform to be discontinued and customers moved to Atypon's Literatum platform.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.atypon.com/news-and-events/press-release.php?id=2053 |title=Atypon Systems acquires Metapress from EBSCO Online, Inc. |date=14 April 2014 |publisher=Atypon Systems, Inc. |access-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217041542/http://www2.atypon.com/news-and-events/press-release.php?id=2053 |archive-date=17 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140414006397/en/Atypon-Systems-Acquires-Metapress-EBSCO-Online |title=Atypon acquires EBSCO Online platform | work=Business Wire | date=April 14, 2014}}</ref> Content was migrated to Literatum on May 21, 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.atypon.com/news/atypon-completes-metapress-transition-to-literatum/ |title=Atypon completes Metapress transition to Literatum |publisher=Atypon |date=27 May 2015 |access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref>
Metapress was founded in 1998 as an [[Electronic publishing|online publication platform]] for content creators to produce and host their printed journal editions online.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Item/MetaPress-to-Become-Primary-Host-for-Taylor-and-Francis-Group-Journals-3921.htm |title=Taylor and Francis Journal Host | work=EContent | date=January 10, 2003}}</ref> A division of EBSCO,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infotoday.com/it/jun03/jacso.shtml|title=Digital Facilitators |publisher=infotoday.com |access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> the platform became one of the world's largest scholarly content hosts,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/news/news/pressreleases2009/june2009/newsite_techsource |title=ALA TechSource launches new Web site |publisher=ALA.org|date= 2009-06-05|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> with over 31,000 publications<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Services/2008-09-24-metapress |title=UK Federation Providers |publisher=ukfederation.org.uk |access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> from over 180 publishers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/std/38396405.pdf |title=Statistics Dissemination Project|publisher=oecd.org |access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> Atypon acquired the Metapress business from EBSCO in 2014, with the Metapress platform to be discontinued and customers moved to Atypon's Literatum platform.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.atypon.com/news-and-events/press-release.php?id=2053 |title=Atypon Systems acquires Metapress from EBSCO Online, Inc. |date=14 April 2014 |publisher=Atypon Systems, Inc. |access-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217041542/http://www2.atypon.com/news-and-events/press-release.php?id=2053 |archive-date=17 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140414006397/en/Atypon-Systems-Acquires-Metapress-EBSCO-Online |title=Atypon acquires EBSCO Online platform | work=[[Business Wire]] | date=April 14, 2014}}</ref> Content was migrated to Literatum on May 21, 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.atypon.com/news/atypon-completes-metapress-transition-to-literatum/ |title=Atypon completes Metapress transition to Literatum |publisher=Atypon |date=27 May 2015 |access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref>

In February 2020, EBSCO Information Services announced their agreement to acquire Zepheira, a company founded in February 2007 and headquartered in [[Reston, Virginia]] with leaders in [[Semantic Web]] and who helped develop [[Dublin Core]], [[BIBFRAME]] and the Library.Link Network.<ref>{{cite web |date=2020-02-27 |df=mdy |title=EBSCO Information Services Acquires Linked Data Infrastructure Provider, Zepheira |work=EBSCO Information Services |url=https://www.ebsco.com/news-center/press-releases/ebsco-acquires-linked-data-infrastructure-provider-zepheira |access-date=2022-04-25}}</ref> Following its merger, Zepheira continues to operates as an independent division.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Breeding |first=Marshall |date=April 2020 |title=EBSCO Information Services Acquires Zepheira |magazine=Smart Libraries Newsletter |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=2–5 |issn=1541-8820 |url=https://librarytechnology.org/document/25077 |access-date=2022-04-25}}</ref>


==Products==
==Products==
*Databases: EBSCO provides a range of library database services.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebscohost.com/title-lists|title=Title Lists |publisher=EBSCO Information Services |access-date=2 April 2016}}</ref> Many of the databases, such as [[MEDLINE]] and [[EconLit]], are licensed from content vendors. Others, such as [[Academic Search]], America: History & Life, Art Index, Art Abstracts, Art Full Text, Business Source, Clinical Reference Systems, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Education Abstracts, Environment Complete, Health Source, Historical Abstracts, History Reference Center, ''MasterFILE'', NetLibrary, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, and USP DI are compiled by EBSCO itself. EBSCO can be configured to route to [[open access]] publications through [[Unpaywall]] data.<ref>https://cloud.ebsco.com/apps/unpaywall</ref>
*'''Databases''': EBSCO provides a range of library database services.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebscohost.com/title-lists|title=Title Lists |publisher=EBSCO Information Services |access-date=2 April 2016}}</ref> Many of the databases, such as [[MEDLINE]] and [[EconLit]], are licensed from content vendors. Others, such as [[Academic Search]], America: History and Life, Art Index, Art Abstracts, Art Full Text, Business Source, Clinical Reference Systems, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Education Abstracts, Environment Complete, Health Source, Historical Abstracts, History Reference Center, ''MasterFILE'', NetLibrary, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, and USP DI are compiled by EBSCO itself. EBSCO can be configured to route to [[open access]] publications through [[Unpaywall]] data.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cloud.ebsco.com/apps/unpaywall|title=Unpaywall &#124; EBSCO Apps & Cloud Services|access-date=2020-04-25|archive-date=2021-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129140028/https://cloud.ebsco.com/apps/unpaywall|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Discovery: This product is used to create a unified, customized index of an institution's information resources, and a means of accessing all the content from a single search box. The system works by harvesting metadata from both internal and external sources, and then creating a preindexed service.
*'''Discovery''': This product is used to create a unified, customized index of an institution's information resources, and a means of accessing all the content from a single search box. The system works by harvesting metadata from both internal and external sources, and then creating a preindexed service.
*'''FOLIO''': EBSCO provides implementation and hosting services for the open-source software [https://www.ebsco.com/academic-libraries/products/ebsco-folio FOLIO], a next generation library services platform, as well as actively contributing to its continued development.
*eBooks: EBSCO provides ebooks and audiobooks across a wide range of subject matter. EBSCO reports that their database includes over a million ebooks and 90,000 audiobooks from over 1500 publishers.<ref>{{cite web |title=EBSCO eBooks and audiobooks |url=https://www.ebscohost.com/ebooks |access-date=26 February 2018}}</ref>
*'''eBooks''': EBSCO provides ebooks and audiobooks across a wide range of subject matter. EBSCO reports that their database includes over a million ebooks and 90,000 audiobooks from over 1500 publishers.<ref>{{cite web |title=EBSCO eBooks and audiobooks |url=https://www.ebscohost.com/ebooks |access-date=26 February 2018}}</ref>
*DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. DynaMed Plus ranked highest among 10 online clinical resources in a study in the ''[[Journal of Clinical Epidemiology]]''<ref>{{cite journal |title=The quality, breadth, and timeliness of content updating vary substantially for 10 online medical texts: an analytic survey |date=September 10, 2012 |journal=Journal of Clinical Epidemiology |volume=65 |issue=12 |pages=1289–95 |pmid=22974495 |doi=10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.05.003|last1=Prorok |first1=J. C. |last2=Iserman |first2=E. C. |last3=Wilczynski |first3=N. L. |last4=Haynes |first4=R. B. }}</ref> and also had the highest overall performance in the disease reference product category in two successive reports on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors.<ref>{{cite news |title=Clinical Decision Support 2013: Sizing up the competition |date=December 2013 |publisher=KLAS Research |url=http://www.www.klasresearch.com/store/ReportDetail.aspx?Productid=863 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*'''DynaMed Plus''' is a clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. In 2012, it ranked highest among 10 online clinical resources in a study in the ''[[Journal of Clinical Epidemiology]]''<ref>{{cite journal |title=The quality, breadth, and timeliness of content updating vary substantially for 10 online medical texts: an analytic survey |date=September 10, 2012 |journal=Journal of Clinical Epidemiology |volume=65 |issue=12 |pages=1289–95 |pmid=22974495 |doi=10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.05.003|last1=Prorok |first1=J. C. |last2=Iserman |first2=E. C. |last3=Wilczynski |first3=N. L. |last4=Haynes |first4=R. B. }}</ref> and also had the highest overall performance in the disease reference product category in two successive reports on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors.<ref>{{cite news |title=Clinical Decision Support 2013: Sizing up the competition |date=December 2013 |publisher=KLAS Research |url=http://www.www.klasresearch.com/store/ReportDetail.aspx?Productid=863 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*It provides [[Digital restrictions management#Internet music|DRM-protected audio]] and [[Digital restrictions management#DRM and e-books|DRM-protected audiobooks]] through its subsidiary NetLibrary, which was purchased in 2010 from [[Online Computer Library Center]]. It competes in this market with [[OverDrive, Inc.|OverDrive's]] [[Digital Library Reserve]].
*'''Audiobooks/Ebooks''': It provides DRM-protected audio and e-books through its subsidiary NetLibrary, which was purchased in 2010 from [[Online Computer Library Center]]. It competes in this market with [[OverDrive, Inc.|OverDrive's]] [[Digital Library Reserve]].


==Green and philanthropic initiatives==
==Green and philanthropic initiatives==
EBSCO has two large solar electric arrays, is converting its corporate fleet of cars to hybrids, has established a "Green Team" at its headquarters, and has released GreenFILE, a free database designed to help people research the impact humans have on the environment. EBSCO was awarded a 2008 Environmental Merit Award Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's New England Office and was honored by the Special Library Association as "Green Champions" as part of the association's "Knowledge to Go Green" initiative on Earth Day 2009.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.ebscohost.com/uploads/imported/thisTopic-dbTopic-889.pdf/ |title=A Small Company with Big Ideas for the Environment|journal=Business & the Environment with ISO 14000 Updates|date=2007}}</ref>
EBSCO has two large solar electric arrays, is converting its corporate fleet of cars to hybrids, has established a "Green Team" at its headquarters, and has released GreenFILE, a free database designed to help people research the impact humans have on the environment. EBSCO was awarded a 2008 Environmental Merit Award Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's New England Office and was honored by the Special Library Association as "Green Champions" as part of the association's "Knowledge to Go Green" initiative on [[Earth Day]] 2009.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.ebscohost.com/uploads/imported/thisTopic-dbTopic-889.pdf/ |title=A Small Company with Big Ideas for the Environment|journal=Business & the Environment with ISO 14000 Updates|date=2007}}</ref>


EBSCO philanthropic initiatives include efforts to bridge the digital divide (between the industrialized world and developing nations) and work with the [[Open Society Foundations]] to provide essential research databases for universities in 39 developing countries.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.infotoday.com/it/dec11/Benchley-Partnerships-in-Progress.shtml#EBSCO/ |title=EBSCO: A Plan for All Seasons|journal=Information Today|date=2011}}</ref> In 2012, the Stephens were recognized for their philanthropic work.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/print-edition/2012/11/09/2012-national-philanthropy-day-awards.html?page=all/|title=Outstanding Philanthropists: James 'Jim' and Julie T. Stephens|journal=Birmingham Business Journal|date=2012}}</ref>
EBSCO philanthropic initiatives include efforts to bridge the digital divide (between the industrialized world and developing nations) and work with the [[Open Society Foundations]] to provide essential research databases for universities in 39 developing countries.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.infotoday.com/it/dec11/Benchley-Partnerships-in-Progress.shtml#EBSCO/ |title=EBSCO: A Plan for All Seasons|journal=Information Today|date=2011}}</ref> In 2012, the Stephens were recognized for their philanthropic work.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/print-edition/2012/11/09/2012-national-philanthropy-day-awards.html?page=all/|title=Outstanding Philanthropists: James 'Jim' and Julie T. Stephens|journal=Birmingham Business Journal|date=2012}}</ref>

==Controversy==
In 2017, an anti-pornography organization, the [[National Center on Sexual Exploitation]] (formerly known as "Morality in Media") criticized EBSCO because its databases, widely used in schools in the United States, "could be used to search for information about sexual terms."<ref name="Zubrzycki">Jackie Zubrzycki, [http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2017/07/EBSCO_online_databases_filter_inappropriate_material.html Do Online Databases Filter Out Enough Inappropriate Material?], ''Education Week'' (July 14, 2017).</ref> The group said that some articles from ''[[Men's Health]]'' and other publications indexed by EBSCO included articles with sexual (but not pornographic) content and asserted that other articles in the database linked to websites that included pornography.<ref name="Zubrzycki"/> EBSCO responded by saying that it took the complaint seriously, but was unaware of any case "of students using its databases to access pornography or other explicit materials" and that "the searches NCOSE was concerned about had been conducted by adults actively searching for graphic materials, often on home computers that don't have the kinds of controls and filters common on school computers."<ref name="Zubrzycki"/>

James LaRue, the director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, said that students have a right to receive information, even about topics that some groups deem inappropriate. He said that NCOSE's goal seems to be to get rid of any content "that will offend any parent in America."<ref name="Zubrzycki"/>

"NCOSE has the right to advocate for greater restrictions on access to sexual content", said LaRue, "but they often do this by suppressing content. When they try to impose their standards on other families, the American Library Association would call that censorship."<ref name="Zubrzycki"/>


==See also==
==See also==
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* {{cite web |url=http://charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2011/00000013/00000001/art00020/ |title=Interview with Sam Brooks, Senior VP for Sales and Marketing with EBSCO Publishing, About H.W. Wilson |work=[[The Charleston Advisor]] |location=Denver |date=2011}}
* {{cite journal |url=http://charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2011/00000013/00000001/art00020/ |title=Interview with Sam Brooks, Senior VP for Sales and Marketing with EBSCO Publishing, About H.W. Wilson |journal=[[The Charleston Advisor]] |location=Denver |date=2011|doi=10.5260/chara.13.1.60 |last1=Machovec |first1=George |last2=Brooks |first2=Sam |volume=13 |pages=60–61 }}


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{official website|http://www.ebsco.com/}}
* {{official website|ebsco.com/}}

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[[Category:Publishing companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Publishing companies of the United States]]

Latest revision as of 08:01, 12 May 2024

EBSCO Information Services
Company typeSubsidiary of EBSCO Industries
IndustryInformation services
Founded1984
HeadquartersIpswich, Massachusetts, United States
Key people
Tim Collins (Founder/CEO)
ProductsEBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost, EBSCO eBooks, EBSCO FOLIO, DynaMed, GOBI, EBSCO Learning, many others
Websitewww.ebsco.com

EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of many types around the world. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost, which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives. In 2010, EBSCO introduced its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines.[1]

History[edit]

EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a company founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens Sr. and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. "EBSCO" is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Company. EBSCO Industries has annual sales of about $3 billion. It is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama and one of the top 200 in the United States, based on revenues and employee numbers.[2]

EBSCO Information Services originated in 1984 as a print publication called Popular Magazine Review, featuring article abstracts from more than 300 magazines. In 1987 the company was purchased by EBSCO Industries and its name was changed to EBSCO Publishing. It employed around 750 people by 2007.[3] In 2003, it acquired Whitston Publishing, another database provider.[4] In 2010 EBSCO purchased NetLibrary and in 2011 it took over H. W. Wilson Company.[5][6][7] EBSCO Publishing merged with EBSCO Information Services on July 1, 2013, with the merged business operating as EBSCO Information Services.[8] In 2015 EBSCO acquired YBP (Yankee Book Peddler) Library Services from Baker & Taylor, and later renamed it GOBI Library Solutions.[9][10] As of 2017, the President is Tim Collins.[11]

Metapress was founded in 1998 as an online publication platform for content creators to produce and host their printed journal editions online.[12] A division of EBSCO,[13] the platform became one of the world's largest scholarly content hosts,[14] with over 31,000 publications[15] from over 180 publishers.[16] Atypon acquired the Metapress business from EBSCO in 2014, with the Metapress platform to be discontinued and customers moved to Atypon's Literatum platform.[17][18] Content was migrated to Literatum on May 21, 2015.[19]

In February 2020, EBSCO Information Services announced their agreement to acquire Zepheira, a company founded in February 2007 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia with leaders in Semantic Web and who helped develop Dublin Core, BIBFRAME and the Library.Link Network.[20] Following its merger, Zepheira continues to operates as an independent division.[21]

Products[edit]

  • Databases: EBSCO provides a range of library database services.[22] Many of the databases, such as MEDLINE and EconLit, are licensed from content vendors. Others, such as Academic Search, America: History and Life, Art Index, Art Abstracts, Art Full Text, Business Source, Clinical Reference Systems, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Education Abstracts, Environment Complete, Health Source, Historical Abstracts, History Reference Center, MasterFILE, NetLibrary, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, and USP DI are compiled by EBSCO itself. EBSCO can be configured to route to open access publications through Unpaywall data.[23]
  • Discovery: This product is used to create a unified, customized index of an institution's information resources, and a means of accessing all the content from a single search box. The system works by harvesting metadata from both internal and external sources, and then creating a preindexed service.
  • FOLIO: EBSCO provides implementation and hosting services for the open-source software FOLIO, a next generation library services platform, as well as actively contributing to its continued development.
  • eBooks: EBSCO provides ebooks and audiobooks across a wide range of subject matter. EBSCO reports that their database includes over a million ebooks and 90,000 audiobooks from over 1500 publishers.[24]
  • DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. In 2012, it ranked highest among 10 online clinical resources in a study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology[25] and also had the highest overall performance in the disease reference product category in two successive reports on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors.[26]
  • Audiobooks/Ebooks: It provides DRM-protected audio and e-books through its subsidiary NetLibrary, which was purchased in 2010 from Online Computer Library Center. It competes in this market with OverDrive's Digital Library Reserve.

Green and philanthropic initiatives[edit]

EBSCO has two large solar electric arrays, is converting its corporate fleet of cars to hybrids, has established a "Green Team" at its headquarters, and has released GreenFILE, a free database designed to help people research the impact humans have on the environment. EBSCO was awarded a 2008 Environmental Merit Award Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's New England Office and was honored by the Special Library Association as "Green Champions" as part of the association's "Knowledge to Go Green" initiative on Earth Day 2009.[27]

EBSCO philanthropic initiatives include efforts to bridge the digital divide (between the industrialized world and developing nations) and work with the Open Society Foundations to provide essential research databases for universities in 39 developing countries.[28] In 2012, the Stephens were recognized for their philanthropic work.[29]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The New and Improved EBSCO Information Services". Information Today. 2013.
  2. ^ "The Largest Private Companies". Forbes. November 9, 2006. Archived from the original on May 9, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  3. ^ Brynko, Barbara (2011). "Collins: EBSCO's Mission of Growth".
  4. ^ "EBSCO acquires Whitston Publishing Company". Library Technology Guides. 24 September 2003. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  5. ^ "EBSCO Publishing and The H.W. Wilson Company Make Joint Announcement of Merger Agreement". hwwilson.com (Press release). June 1, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
  6. ^ Barrett, William P. (December 29, 1997). "Mousetrapped". Forbes. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
  7. ^ "H.W. Wilson Company". The New York Times. 3 February 2009.
  8. ^ "EBSCO Publishing and EBSCO Information Services merge" (Press release). EBSCO Industries. May 22, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  9. ^ "EBSCO acquires YBP". The Bookseller. 23 February 2015. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  10. ^ "GOBI Library Solutions". EBSCO. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  11. ^ "About: Leadership". EBSCO Information Services. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  12. ^ "Taylor and Francis Journal Host". EContent. January 10, 2003.
  13. ^ "Digital Facilitators". infotoday.com. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  14. ^ "ALA TechSource launches new Web site". ALA.org. 2009-06-05. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  15. ^ "UK Federation Providers". ukfederation.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  16. ^ "Statistics Dissemination Project" (PDF). oecd.org. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  17. ^ "Atypon Systems acquires Metapress from EBSCO Online, Inc". Atypon Systems, Inc. 14 April 2014. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  18. ^ "Atypon acquires EBSCO Online platform". Business Wire. April 14, 2014.
  19. ^ "Atypon completes Metapress transition to Literatum". Atypon. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  20. ^ "EBSCO Information Services Acquires Linked Data Infrastructure Provider, Zepheira". EBSCO Information Services. February 27, 2020. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  21. ^ Breeding, Marshall (April 2020). "EBSCO Information Services Acquires Zepheira". Smart Libraries Newsletter. Vol. 40, no. 4. pp. 2–5. ISSN 1541-8820. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  22. ^ "Title Lists". EBSCO Information Services. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  23. ^ "Unpaywall | EBSCO Apps & Cloud Services". Archived from the original on 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  24. ^ "EBSCO eBooks and audiobooks". Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  25. ^ Prorok, J. C.; Iserman, E. C.; Wilczynski, N. L.; Haynes, R. B. (September 10, 2012). "The quality, breadth, and timeliness of content updating vary substantially for 10 online medical texts: an analytic survey". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 65 (12): 1289–95. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.05.003. PMID 22974495.
  26. ^ "Clinical Decision Support 2013: Sizing up the competition". KLAS Research. December 2013.[permanent dead link]
  27. ^ "A Small Company with Big Ideas for the Environment". Business & the Environment with ISO 14000 Updates. 2007.
  28. ^ "EBSCO: A Plan for All Seasons". Information Today. 2011.
  29. ^ "Outstanding Philanthropists: James 'Jim' and Julie T. Stephens". Birmingham Business Journal. 2012.

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