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EBSCO and Adam Matthew Group in deal to add Primary Source collections to EDS -

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with the Adam Matthew Group. Under the deal, metadata from the Adam Matthew Group's primary source collections and works will be added to the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).

The resources from the Adam Matthew Group are designed to offer powerful research and dynamic teaching for universities, colleges and libraries. Users of EBSCO Discovery Service will also have the ability to search the full text of these collections and works.

The Adam Matthew Group resources are well-crafted and thought-out collections designed to appeal at an undergraduate level through to scholarly research. Due to unique relationships with scholars, libraries and archives around the world, the collections and works ensure academically robust products that offer access to untapped primary sources.

The detailed indexing available to EBSCO Discovery Service users provide collections spanning from Medieval times to the 21st century, including Mass Observation Online, Eighteenth Century Journals and Victorian Popular Culture. Subject matter within the collections and works also represent an expansive range of subject areas.

The Adam Matthew Group is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world's largest scholarly journal and book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, SAGE Publications and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.

The EDS Base Index represents content from about 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers, representing far more content providers and publishers than any other discovery service.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customised index of an institution's information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box.

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