Company:EBSCO Information Services

From HandWiki
EBSCO Information Services
TypeSubsidiary of EBSCO Industries
IndustryInformation services
Founded1984
HeadquartersIpswich, Massachusetts, United States
ProductsEBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost, EBSCO eBooks, EBSCO FOLIO, DynaMed, GOBI, EBSCO Learning, many others
Website{{{1}}}

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

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]

Metapress was founded in 1998 as an online publication platform for content creators to produce and host their printed journal editions online.[11] A division of EBSCO,[12] the platform became one of the world's largest scholarly content hosts,[13] with over 31,000 publications[14] from over 180 publishers.[15] Atypon acquired the Metapress business from EBSCO in 2014, with the Metapress platform to be discontinued and customers moved to Atypon's Literatum platform.[16][17] Content was migrated to Literatum on May 21, 2015.[18]

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.[19] Following its merger, Zepheira continues to operates as an independent division.[20]

Products

  • Databases: EBSCO provides a range of library database services.[21] 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.[22]
  • 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 pre-indexed service.
  • FOLIO: a microservices software platform in open-source model. EBSCO provides implementation for the core of software, hosting services, as well as actively contributing to its continued development.[23]
  • eBooks: EBSCO provides ebooks and audiobooks across a wide range of subject matter. EBSCO reports that their database includes over a million ebooks from over 1500 publishers.[24]
  • DynaMedex is a clinical decision support solution. Under a new name, DynaMedex, formerly DynaMed and Micromedex with Watson,[25] continues to enhance clinical decision support and operations for healthcare providers and health systems is a clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. In 2024, DynaMed was named 2024 Best in KLAS for clinical decision Support clinical resources [26] by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors.[27] In 2012, it ranked highest among 10 online clinical resources in a study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology[28] 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.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag EBSCOed is best known for its contributions to the Alabama Talent Triad, a project that seeks to connect Alabama employers with skilled workers.[29][30]

Philanthropy

Since 2015, EBSCO has awarded libraries around the world more than $2,000,000 in grants for solar installations.[31]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The New and Improved EBSCO Information Services". Information Today. 2013. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/The-New-and-Improved-EBSCO-Information-Services-89991.asp/. 
  2. ↑ "The Largest Private Companies". Forbes. November 9, 2006. https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/21/biz_06privates_The-Largest-Private-Companies_Company_5.html. 
  3. ↑ Brynko, Barbara (2011). "Collins: EBSCO's Mission of Growth". http://www.infotoday.com/it/mar11/Collins-EBSCOs-Mission-of-Growth.shtml. 
  4. ↑ "EBSCO acquires Whitston Publishing Company". Library Technology Guides. 24 September 2003. http://librarytechnology.org/news/pr.pl?id=16581. 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. https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/1229/6014058a.html. 
  7. ↑ "H.W. Wilson Company". The New York Times. 3 February 2009. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/hw-wilson-company/. 
  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. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/ebsco-acquires-ybp. 
  10. ↑ "GOBI Library Solutions". EBSCO. https://gobi.ebsco.com/. 
  11. ↑ "Taylor and Francis Journal Host". EContent. January 10, 2003. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Item/MetaPress-to-Become-Primary-Host-for-Taylor-and-Francis-Group-Journals-3921.htm. 
  12. ↑ "Digital Facilitators". infotoday.com. http://www.infotoday.com/it/jun03/jacso.shtml. 
  13. ↑ "ALA TechSource launches new Web site". ALA.org. 2009-06-05. http://www.ala.org/news/news/pressreleases2009/june2009/newsite_techsource. 
  14. ↑ "UK Federation Providers". ukfederation.org.uk. https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Services/2008-09-24-metapress. 
  15. ↑ "Statistics Dissemination Project". oecd.org. http://www.oecd.org/std/38396405.pdf. 
  16. ↑ "Atypon Systems acquires Metapress from EBSCO Online, Inc.". Atypon Systems, Inc.. 14 April 2014. http://www2.atypon.com/news-and-events/press-release.php?id=2053. 
  17. ↑ "Atypon acquires EBSCO Online platform". Business Wire. April 14, 2014. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140414006397/en/Atypon-Systems-Acquires-Metapress-EBSCO-Online. 
  18. ↑ "Atypon completes Metapress transition to Literatum". Atypon. 27 May 2015. https://www.atypon.com/news/atypon-completes-metapress-transition-to-literatum/. 
  19. ↑ "EBSCO Information Services Acquires Linked Data Infrastructure Provider, Zepheira". EBSCO Information Services. 2020-02-27. https://www.ebsco.com/news-center/press-releases/ebsco-acquires-linked-data-infrastructure-provider-zepheira. 
  20. ↑ Breeding, Marshall (April 2020). "EBSCO Information Services Acquires Zepheira". Smart Libraries Newsletter 40 (4): 2–5. ISSN 1541-8820. https://librarytechnology.org/document/25077. Retrieved 2022-04-25. 
  21. ↑ "Title Lists". EBSCO Information Services. https://www.ebscohost.com/title-lists. 
  22. ↑ "Unpaywall | EBSCO Apps & Cloud Services". https://cloud.ebsco.com/apps/unpaywall. 
  23. ↑ "EBSCO FOLIO" (in en). https://www.ebsco.com/academic-libraries/products/ebsco-folio. 
  24. ↑ "EBSCO eBooks and audiobooks". https://www.ebscohost.com/ebooks. 
  25. ↑ "DynaMed® and Micromedex® with Watson™ will now become DynaMedex™". https://www.knowledgespeak.com/news/dynamed-and-micromedex-with-watson-will-now-become-dynamedex/. 
  26. ↑ "DynaMed® receives prestigious Best in KLAS Award for Clinical Decision Support". https://www.knowledgespeak.com/news/dynamed-receives-prestigious-best-in-klas-award-for-clinical-decision-support/. 
  27. ↑ "Clinical Decision Support 2013: Sizing up the competition". KLAS Research. December 2013. http://www.www.klasresearch.com/store/ReportDetail.aspx?Productid=863. 
  28. ↑ 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. 
  29. ↑ "Alabama Talent Triad" (in en-US). https://learnworkecosystemlibrary.com/initiatives/alabama-talent-triad/. 
  30. ↑ "Experiences" (in en). https://www.ebscoed.com/materials. 
  31. ↑ "EBSCO Information Services opens submissions for the 2024 EBSCO Solar Grant". Library Technology Guides. 2024. http://librarytechnology.org/pr/29676/. 

Further reading

  • No URL found. Please specify a URL here or add one to Wikidata.



Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Company:EBSCO_Information_Services&oldid=4023497"