EBSCO Publishing and ABC-CLIO Announce New Partnership
~ Mutual Customers Can Link From ABC-CLIO Databases to EBSCO's Databases ~

Ipswich, MA and Santa Barbara, CA - August 24, 2006 - EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and ABC-CLIO are pleased to announce a new partnership that will benefit mutual customers of EBSCO's and ABC-CLIO's online databases. Users of ABC-CLIO's Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life databases can now link directly from relevant journal article citations in those resources to the corresponding full text in EBSCO's online databases via EBSCOhost^®.

With this new partnership, customers of EBSCOhost full-text databases and ABC-CLIO indexes will not need a link resolver to access full text from databases such as Academic Search^® through indexes such as Historical Abstracts. There will be no additional charge for this new feature.

In addition to producing many of the world's foremost research databases (many with full text), EBSCO also provides access to other important resources from additional database providers. In other cases, where the leading online index is not available via the EBSCOhost platform (such as ABC-CLIO's Historical Abstracts), EBSCO strives to make its full-text content readily available to users of that index that are also EBSCOhost customers through a simple and direct link. In addition to the ABC-CLIO databases, EBSCO also offers such linking for Chemical Abstracts and Zynx Health's suite of evidence-based clinical decision support tools.

About ABC-CLIO
Celebrating 50 years of reference publishing in 2005, ABC-CLIO is a privately held company founded and owned by the Boehm family. The company's corporate headquarters is in Santa Barbara, CA, with offices in Denver, CO, and Oxford, England. Committed to serving the history profession, history teachers, and students and scholars of history, ABC-CLIO annually publishes approximately 80 encyclopedias, guides, and handbooks. Since 1991, this acclaimed reference book line has won over 60 best-reference awards from the American Library Association and Library Journal. Its best known publications are the abstracting and indexing services Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, which together represent the largest bibliographic history database in the world. ABC-CLIO also has a large eBook program with all reference book titles published in both print and electronic formats.

About EBSCO
EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 200 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company's product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source^® , CINAHL^®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList^®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, MEDLINE^®, MLA International Bibliography, PsycARTICLES^® and PsycINFO^®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost^®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: http://www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebsco.com.

EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.