EBSCO Publishing Introduces Advanced Placement Source™
New Database Provides High School Students with Important Resources for Advanced Studies

IPSWICH, Mass. — April 12, 2005 — In the interest of helping schools support their advanced studies curriculum, EBSCO Publishing has created the Advanced Placement Source™ database. This resource, available via EBSCOhost®, is designed to meet the extensive needs of high school students enrolled in various AP courses.

Advanced Placement Source, available only to secondary school libraries, offers a world of knowledge for students who seek to achieve academic excellence and whose advanced research needs were not fully supported previously by any other existing services. This database is designed to support students in multiple areas of study including mathematics; physics; chemistry; biology; computer science; human geography; psychology; economics & statistics; government & politics; environmental science; U.S., European & world history; the arts and music. Advanced Placement Source contains more than 6,000 full text journals and over 100,000 photos, maps and flags. The database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.

EBSCO Publishing is part of the EBSCO Information Services group. 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 282,000 serial titles and upholds relationships with more than 60,000 publishers around the world. EBSCO’s 32 Regional Offices worldwide are staffed with personnel who speak the local language and understand the particular challenges faced by librarians in their areas, offering a uniquely personal level of service. Specialized divisions serve academic, biomedical, government, public, school and special libraries as well as corporations. For more information, visit www.ebsco.com.