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EBSCO Information Services

EBSCO Information Services is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand EBSCO Information Services rather than just read about it. In short: EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries, a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of many types around the world.

Key takeaways

EBSCO Information Services belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect EBSCO Information Services to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of EBSCO Information Services from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries, a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of many types around the world. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost, which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives. In 2010, EBSCO introduced its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines.

History EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, a company founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens Sr. and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. "EBSCO" is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Company. EBSCO Industries has annual sales of about $3 billion. It is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama and one of the top 200 in the United States, based on revenues and employee numbers. EBSCO Information Services originated in 1984 as a print publication called Popular Magazine Review, featuring article abstracts from more than 300 magazines. In 1987 the company was purchased by EBSCO Industries and its name was changed to EBSCO Publishing. It employed around 750 people by 2007. In 2003, it acquired Whitston Publishing, another database provider. In 2010 EBSCO purchased NetLibrary and in 2011 it took over H. W. Wilson Company. EBSCO Publishing merged with EBSCO Information Services on July 1, 2013, with the merged business operating as EBSCO Information Services. In 2015 EBSCO acquired YBP (Yankee Book Peddler) Library Services from Baker & Taylor, and later renamed it GOBI Library Solutions. Metapress was founded in 1998 as an online publication platform for content creators to produce and host their printed journal editions online. A division of EBSCO, the platform became one of the world's largest scholarly content hosts, with over 31,000 publications from over 180 publishers. Atypon acquired the Metapress business from EBSCO in 2014, with the Metapress platform to be discontinued and customers moved to Atypon's Literatum platform. Content was migrated to Literatum on May 21, 2015. In February 2020, EBSCO Information Services announced their agreement to acquire Zepheira, a company founded in February 2007 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with leaders in Semantic Web and who helped develop Dublin Core, BIBFRAME and the Library.Link Network. Following its merger, Zepheira continues to operates as an independent division.

Products Databases: EBSCO provides a range of library database services. Many of the databases, such as MEDLINE and EconLit, are licensed from content vendors. Others, such as Academic Search, America: History and Life, Art Index, Art Abstracts, Art Full Text, Business Source, Clinical Reference Systems, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Education Abstracts, Environment Complete, Health Source, Historical Abstracts, History Reference Center, MasterFILE, NetLibrary, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, and USP DI are compiled by EBSCO itself. EBSCO can be configured to route to open access publications through Unpaywall data. The company's Flipster interface also provides access to digital magazines. Discovery: Used to create a unified, customized index of an institution's information resources, and a means of accessing all the content from a single search box. The system works by harvesting metadata from both internal and external sources, and then creating a pre-indexed service. FOLIO: A microservices software platform in open-source model. EBSCO provides implementation for the core of software, hosting services, as well as actively contributing to its continued development. eBooks: Provides ebooks and audiobooks across a wide range of subject matter. EBSCO reports that their database includes over a million ebooks from over 1500 publishers. Provides DRM-protected e-books through its subsidiary NetLibrary, which was purchased in 2010 from Online Computer Library Center. It competes in this market with OverDrive's Digital Library Reserve. DynaMedex: A clinical decision support solution. Under a new name, DynaMedex, formerly DynaMed and Micromedex with Watson, continues to enhance clinical decision support and operations for healthcare providers and health systems is a clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. In 2024, DynaMed was named 2024 Best in KLAS for clinical decision Support clinical resources by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. In 2012, it ranked highest among 10 online clinical resources in a study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and also had the highest overall performance in the disease reference product category in two successive reports on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. EBSCOed: A division focusing on the creation of interoperable learner records, credential wallets, and other services tailored towards the needs of workforce development agencies. EBSCOed is best known for its contributions to the Alabama Talent Triad, a project that seeks to connect Alabama employers with skilled workers.

Philanthropy Since 2015, EBSCO has awarded libraries around the world more than $2,000,000 in grants for solar installations.

See also List of academic databases and search engines

References

Further reading Machovec, George; Brooks, Sam (2011). "Interview with Sam Brooks, Senior VP for Sales and Marketing with EBSCO Publishing, About H.W. Wilson". The Charleston Advisor. 13. Denver: 60–61. doi:10.5260/chara.13.1.60.

External links Official website "Research Starters". EBSCO Research. a free authored encyclopedia

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with EBSCO Information Services

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what EBSCO Information Services claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to EBSCO Information Services before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about EBSCO Information Services ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of EBSCO Information Services

In research: EBSCO Information Services appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses EBSCO Information Services in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: EBSCO Information Services is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1984 establishments in Massachusetts, Academic publishing companies, American companies established in 1984, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for EBSCO Information Services outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is EBSCO Information Services in simple terms?

Why does EBSCO Information Services matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study EBSCO Information Services?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on EBSCO Information Services.