Sixteen Biomedical Publishers Add Their Content To EBSCOhost ® Electronic Journals Service Enhanced

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A., May 15, 2005 – Sixteen publishers have recently signed agreements to add their content – collectively representing 58 titles – to EBSCOhost ® Electronic Journals Service (EJS) Enhanced.

With the addition of this metadata, participating publisher content will be easily accessible at the article level instead of the journal level, and the visibility and usage of these journals will be boosted.

This agreement includes the Company of Biologists, the National Academy of Sciences, Pro Ed Inc, the American Society of Microbiology, the American Sociological Association, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pharmacotherapy Publications, the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, the Radiological Society of North America, the Joint Commission Resources, the American Society of Nutritional Sciences, the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Psychiatric Association.

EJS handles electronic journal access and management needs. EJS Enhanced offers extensive features that help with e-journal management tasks such as tracking the registration status of e-journals, authentication assistance to facilitate both on-campus and remote access to e-journal content, automatic management of e-journal URLs and much more. EJS Enhanced serves as a consolidated gateway that allows users to search and link to more than 11,900 (OpenURL supported) journals and over 6 million articles. EBSCO provides durable URLs for every journal, table of contents and article in EJS Enhanced. No URL maintenance by the library is required. Administrators accessing EJS through EBSCO receive the added benefit of automatic account activation for LinkOut through PubMed.

If you are interested in learning more about the benefits of adding journal metadata to EJS, please contact Madeleine Hill, mhill@ebsco.com.

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EBSCO Information Services provides libraries and research centers with online and print journal subscription services, e-resource access and management services, full-text and secondary database development and access, an OpenURL-compliant link resolver, online book purchasing and related information services. EBSCO maintains a title database of more than 298,000 serial titles and upholds relationships with more than 78,000 publishers around the world.

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