Thousands of Medical Images Now Available from EBSCO
SMART Imagebase Now Part of EBSCO’s Suite of Medical Resources

IPSWICH, Mass. — February 1, 2006 — In response to the growing demand for quality images and other visual content pertaining to the study of medicine, EBSCO Publishing is pleased to offer access to the Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase (SMART Imagebase). This resource, created by Nucleus Medical Art, provides a comprehensive collection of downloadable medical illustrations and animations.

Ideal for students and teachers of Anatomy, Physiology, Biology and other Life Sciences, SMART Imagebase contains medical illustrations, animations, and interactive multimedia for 23 body systems/regions and 19 medical specialties. This database contains a growing collection of 10,000 + high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, pathology, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other medical topics. Content is peer-reviewed by graduate level medical illustrators and expert-reviewed by physicians.

About Nucleus Medical Art
Nucleus Medical Art (www.nucleusinc.com) is a leading creator and publisher of online medical illustrations, medical animations, interactive media, and educational material for patient, consumer and professional education. Their customers include publishers, health care web sites, medical institutions, pharmaceutical companies, attorneys and health care professionals. The company’s images are seen online by millions of people daily on major health portals such as Yahoo!, MSN.com, EBSCO Publishing, HONmedia, and thousands of web sites, books, periodicals, posters, and videos. Nucleus is a strong proponent of health science literacy, and uses its content and technology to provide medical visual information to students, teachers, consumers and learning institutions all over the world.

About EBSCO Publishing
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 300,000 title listings and upholds relationships with more than 78,000 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.