EBSCO Publishing today announced an agreement with H.W. Wilson that will make 11 additional Wilson databases available to libraries via EBSCOhostÒ. This brings the total number of Wilson databases available online from EBSCO to 17. This partnership is significant, as it not only brings several additional quality databases to EBSCOhost customers, but also further emphasizes EBSCO's commitment to offering the most expansive collection of secondary databases. With the addition of these databases from H.W. Wilson, the number of secondary databases available via EBSCOhost is now over 60 - and growing.

With EBSCOhost's SmartLinks^TM functionality, users are able to link from records in secondary databases on EBSCOhost to the full text of articles in EBSCOhost full text databases as well as articles in online journals subscribed to by the library.

H. W. Wilson databases newly licensed for availability via EBSCOhost are:

Art Index Retrospective
Bibliographic Index
Biological & Agricultural Index
Book Review Digest
Current Biography Illustrated
Essay and General Literature Index
General Science Abstracts
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
Library Literature & Information Science
Readers' Guide Abstracts
Short Story Index

These newly licensed databases will begin appearing on EBSCOhost in the coming months. The company hopes to have Readers' Guide Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Art Index Retrospective available for trial and sale by June 2003. Additional Wilson databases already available via EBSCOhost are:

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Art Abstracts
Education Abstracts
Humanities Abstracts
Social Sciences Abstracts
Wilson Biographies Illustrated

About The H.W. Wilson Company
An icon in the library community for more than 100 years, H.W. Wilson is dedicated to providing the highest-quality references in the world. Via the WilsonWeb Internet Service and in print, more than 50 H.W. Wilson reference databases meet the research needs of customers around the globe. Wilson periodicals databases bring users full-text, page images, abstracts, and indexing of thousands of leading magazines and journals. Acclaimed Wilson specialty library catalogs support collection development in children's, school and public libraries. Over 150 Wilson editorial staff members with MLS or MLIS degrees-multi-lingual trained librarians and subject specialists-build the Wilson references each day. For more on H.W. Wilson, visit www.hwwilson.com.

Release Date: April 10, 2003