EBSCO Subscription Services has recently contracted with several internationally known publishers to bring more than 100 new titles to EBSCO's electronic journal access and management service. There are now more than 5,100 titles viewable, with an additional 2,800 titles accessible, through the service. The most recent publisher agreements include:

AlphaMed Press publishes two premier medical journals, Stem Cells and The Oncologist. Stem Cells provides a forum for basic laboratory investigations of stem cells and the translation of their clinical aspects of characterization and manipulation from the bench to patient care. The Oncologist is one of the leading physician-reviewed providers of relevant cancer medicine information and publishes original papers, reviews and commentaries addressing the multimodality diagnosis, treatment and quality of life of the cancer patient. Peer-reviewed supplements to both journals are also published.

BioMed Central publishes more than 50 online journals covering the whole of biology and medicine. BioMed Central is a publishing company committed to free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scientific research articles. It is a part of the Current Science Publishing Group, which has been a leading scientific publisher for the past 15 years and has been responsible for founding a number of scientific journals and innovative products.

Heron Publishing is located in Victoria, British Columbia, and publishes three journals: Archaea, an international microbiological journal that provides peer review and publication of articles dealing with any aspect of research on the Archaea; naturalSCIENCE, which contains articles by scientists who wish to communicate their work and ideas to a scientifically informed non-specialist audience; and Tree Physiology, a journal about the taxonomy, structure and functions of trees and forest ecosystems.

Imprint Academic publishes books and journals in philosophy, history, politics, psychology and consciousness studies. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Exeter, United Kingdom. Imprint Academic books are distributed in the U.S. by the Philosophy Documentation Center at Bowling Green State University.

Indiana University Press is an academic, not-for-profit publisher. Now in its fiftieth year, it is recognized internationally as a leading academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. More than 150 new books are published annually, in addition to 13 journals and a backlist of some 1,800 titles. The Press emphasizes scholarship but also publishes text, trade and reference titles. The Press is currently the second-largest public university press, as measured by titles and income level.

ITDG Publishing is the publishing arm of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, an international non-governmental organization dedicated to helping people use technology for "practical answers to poverty." ITDG Publishing publishes titles covering issues that have a bearing on world development and the pursuit of a just and equitable world. Titles cover fields as diverse as gender issues, agriculture and health.

Maney Publishing is based in the U.K. in the Yorkshire city of Leeds. Maney Publishing was founded in 1900 and since 1945 has published books and journals for academic societies. This work continues with the development of its journal publishing imprint Maney Publishing and its new monograph imprint, Northern Universities Press. Since 1997, Maney has expanded into biomedical journal publishing and has welcomed more than twenty new journals to its list, many in fields such as archaeology or modern languages where Maney has an established reputation.

The Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs was founded in 1981 and is a nonprofit health policy research organization that provides objective research and policy analysis on both United States and foreign health systems. As part of its effort to help provide long-term solutions to health care issues, Project HOPE provides research and analysis of critical domestic and international health care concerns through its Center for Health Affairs. Project HOPE publishes the journal Health Affairs, which was established as a peer-reviewed quarterly journal in 1981 and has been published bimonthly since 1997. The journal's primary focus is on domestic health care, but international developments are covered as well.

SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering was founded in 1955 to bring together engineers from technical disciplines involved in high-speed, optically based test and measurement. Since then, the field of optical engineering has evolved from a multidisciplinary amalgam of physics, electrical and mechanical engineering and materials science into an identifiable discipline in its own right. Simultaneously, SPIE has grown into a vital international organization that addresses virtually all subfields associated with optics and photonics technologies and their many engineering, scientific and commercial applications.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is America's oldest national engineering society. It was founded in 1852 and now represents more than 123,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. ASCE is the world's largest publisher of civil engineering information, producing more than 50,000 pages each year. The Society publishes 29 technical and professional journals (available in print, CD-ROM and on the Internet) and a variety of other publications.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) was founded in 1880. It is a nonprofit educational and technical organization serving a worldwide membership of 125,000. ASME conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations, holds some 30 technical conferences and 200 professional development courses each year, and sets many industrial and manufacturing standards.

The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) is a multidisciplinary learned society and registered charity whose aim is to forge links between medicine, science and industry to improve the detection and treatment of disease. The BIR houses the largest collection of radiological journals and books in the U.K.

The International Labour Organization is the U.N. specialized agency that seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. It was founded in 1919 and is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles, which brought the League of Nations into being. Its flagship publication is The International Labour Review, published quarterly in English, French and Spanish. This journal contributes to a wider understanding of labour and employment issues by publishing results of original research and analysis on questions of international interest by economists, lawyers, sociologists and policy-makers; short articles offering a perspective on emerging issues; and reviews of recent publications.

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery is a nonprofit publication designed for orthopedic surgeons. The journal had its origin as the Transactions of the American Orthopedic Association. In 1948, two volumes were established: an American and a British. The American Orthopaedic Association remained the owner of The Journal until 1954, when an independent nonprofit corporation, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc., was established.

The Society for General Microbiology was founded in 1945 and is now the largest microbiological society in Europe. It has more than 5,000 members located in the U.K. and more than 60 countries throughout the world. The Society publishes three distinguished journals of international repute that contain high quality research papers and topical review articles: Microbiology; International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology and Journal of General Virology and Microbiology.

The University of California Press was founded in 1893 and is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the country. The Journals Division of the Press currently publishes thirty-two scholarly journals. The vast majority are in the humanities and social sciences, with concentrations in musicology, history, cultural studies, sociology, law and area studies. While the Press owns many of the journals, some are published under contract with scholarly societies, research institutes or University departments.

EBSCO provides multiple options for accessing electronic journal subscriptions. Researchers can use one interface to search across full text from multiple publishers, or link to e-journals from a library catalog or Web page via durable URLs. Full text from e-journals available through EBSCO's electronic journals service is also accessible via links from many database providers, including EBSCOhost®. An alerting service, pay-per-view article purchasing and advanced usage reports make EBSCO's e-journal access and management service effective for any library or organization.

Released: Jan. 18, 2002