Friday, August 31, 2007

Ebsco Acquire 10 Sage Databases

EBSCO Publishing one of the world's premier database aggregators, has acquired ten renowned indexes from SAGE. The deal will bring the leading print indexes in their fields to users electronically through the EBSCOhost® platform, one of the most-used interfaces available for scholarly research.

The following indexes are now owned by EBSCO and will be available electronically via EBSCOhost:

  • Abstracts in Social Gerontology™
  • Educational Administration Abstracts™
  • Human Resources Abstracts™
  • Peace Research Abstracts Journal™ (Now called Peace Research Abstracts™)
  • Sage Family Studies Abstracts™ (Now called Family Studies Abstracts™)
  • Sage Public Administration Abstracts™ (Now called Public Administration Abstracts™)
  • Sage Race Relations Abstracts™ (Now called Race Relations Abstracts™)
  • Sage Urban Studies Abstracts™ (Now called Urban Studies Abstracts™)
  • The Shock & Vibration Digest™
  • Violence & Abuse Abstracts™

These are highly-refined, specialized collections in their subject areas. Currently, each index is available in print-only. Online versions, including backfiles and other benefits, such as unlimited use, remote accessibility, multi-database searching, links to full-text, etc. are expected to be available by October 2007.

EBSCO offers a suite of more than 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.

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