EBSCO Publishing, headquartered in Ipswich

Ipswich, Massachusetts

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, is an aggregator of premium full-text content. EBSCO Publishing's core business is providing online databases via EBSCOhost to libraries worldwide. EBSCOhost is used by libraries

Library

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s, academic institutions, medical institutions, and corporations. The company is a subsidiary of Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

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-based EBSCO Industries

EBSCO Industries

EBSCO Industries, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a privately held, widely diversified corporation and the largest subscription agency in the world. It was founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens...

. EBSCO Industries is located at number 196 of the top 200 privately held companies in the United States by Forbes Magazine.

The company’s core business is providing online databases via its proprietary software, EBSCOhost, to libraries. EBSCO provides over 350 full-text and secondary databases. Content for these databases include full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports, ebooks, business book summaries and various other publication types. It also provides databases for reference to the health and business sectors, such as DynaMed.

History

EBSCO Publishing was established in 1984 as an independent company with two employees called Data Base Communications Corp. In 1987 the company was purchased by EBSCO Industries

EBSCO Industries

EBSCO Industries, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a privately held, widely diversified corporation and the largest subscription agency in the world. It was founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens...

 and its name was changed to EBSCO Publishing. By 2007 it had grown to employ approximately 750 people.

Products

• Databases: EBSCO provides a range of library database services. Many of the databases, such as Medline and EconLit, are licensed from content vendors. Others, such as Academic Search, MasterFILE, and Environment Complete, are content licensed directly from publishers and compiled by EBSCO.
• Indexing and search: The company provides a solution to create a unified, customized index of an institution's information resources, and a means of accessing all that content from a single search box. The ability to create these custom solutions is achieved by harvesting metadata from both internal and external sources, and then creating a preindexed service.
• Audio and Ebooks: In 2002, NetLibrary was acquired by Online Computer Library Center, and in 2010, the company was sold to EBSCO. The service, dubbed eBooks on EBSCOhost®, is a collection of Ebooks which also offers a selection of audiobooks in a variety of subject areas.
• Corporate training: The company offers customized mapping of relevant content from business book summaries and applicable learning centers to core learning competenices.
• Mobile applications: On April 25, 2011, the company released an application for the iPhone
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  , and iPad
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  . Version 1.01 allows users to authenticate the app for their institution to secure access to their institution's databases but does not have an option to view folders or preferences from their personalized accounts.