EBSCO Publishing Makes Footnote.com Available to Libraries.EBSCO Publishing EBSCO Publishing is a company that provides serial content in the form of online bibliographic and full text databases which can be accessed after purchasing a subscription. EBSCO is popular among libraries, schools, and other institutions. Becomes Worldwide Library Distributor of Footnote([TM] )Historical Digital Archive and Genealogy Database IPSWICH, Mass. -- EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO EBSCO Elton B. Stephens Company ) and Footnote have announced a distribution deal making EBSCO the exclusive worldwide distributor of Footnote.com for libraries and institutions. Footnote.com combines original historical documents and personal histories, creating a unique historical and genealogical resource. The Footnote.com collections feature over 55 million images available from a content partnership with The National Archives National Archives, official depository for records of the U.S. federal government, established in 1934 by an act of Congress. Although displeasure concerning the method of keeping national records was voiced in Congress as early as 1810, the United States continued and other regional archives--most never before available on the Internet. These digital images of records, preserved in the National Archives, represent a growing collection of historic documents. Footnote includes material relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, US Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization naturalization, official act by which a person is made a national of a country other than his or her native one. In some countries naturalized persons do not necessarily become citizens but may merely acquire a new nationality. documents. A recent review rated Footnote.com higher than all other genealogy resources and called it "cutting-edge in every way." Eric Keith, the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Footnote, says, "We are thrilled to be working as partners with EBSCO. Their worldwide sales and customer service teams are second to none when it comes to working with libraries. We are confident that our current and future library clients will be in good hands with EBSCO." In addition, libraries subscribing to Footnote.com will be able to provide remote access to patrons looking to research their family genealogy or explore the images of the original source documents that are available online. EBSCO Publishing's Vice President of Archive, Literature and Proprietary Products, Michael Laddin, says, "Working with Footnote lets us provide our customers access to a leading historical and genealogical database. Footnote has an unprecedented, vast array of valuable and unique content of interest to historians and genealogists alike." About EBSCO Publishing EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 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([TM]), Business Source([R]), CINAHL CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature ([R]), DynaMed([TM]), Literary Reference Center([TM]), MasterFILE([TM]), NoveList([R]), SocINDEX([TM]) and SPORTDiscus([TM]) as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA ATLA Association of Trial Lawyers of America ATLA American Theological Library Association ATLA American Trial Lawyers Association ATLA Air Transport Licensing Authority (Hong Kong) ATLA Avatar: The Last Airbender Religion Database([TM]), EconLit, INSPEC INSPEC Information Service for Physics, Electronics, and Computing ([R]), MEDLINE The online medical database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) whose parent is the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. MEDLINE contains millions of articles from thousands of medical journals and publications. The consumer section of the site (http://medlineplus. ([R]), MLA MLA abbr. Modern Language Association MLA n abbr (BRIT POL) (= Member of the Legislative Assembly) → miembro de la asamblea legislativa MLA (Brit International Bibliography, The Philosopher's Index([TM]), PsycARTICLES([R]) and PsycINFO([R]). Databases are powered by EBSCOhost([R]), the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. in the United States. About Footnote, Inc. Founded in 1997 as iArchives, Inc., Footnote is a subscription-based website that features searchable original documents that provide users with an unaltered view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. At Footnote.com all are invited to come to share, discuss, and collaborate on their discoveries with friends, family, and colleagues. For more information, visit www.footnote.com. |
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