Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services has announced that bibliographic citations and abstracts from Ichushi Web, Japan's largest medical-literature database, will now be searchable for mutual customers via the EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). The move is the result of a recent agreement between EBSCO and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS).
Ichushi Web is an online bibliographic database established in 2000 and is updated by JAMAS, a non-profit and non-governmental body. The partnership between EBSCO and JAMAS will allow metadata for bibliographic citations from more than 2,500 biomedical journals and other serial publications published in Japan to be added to EDS. Content from Ichushi Web will appeal to medical, dental, nursing and other health-sciences schools and institutions as well as individual scientists, healthcare professionals and consumers.
EBSCO strives to increase global content in EBSCO Discovery Service and the addition of Japan Medical Abstracts Society's metadata to EDS will be valuable to many worldwide as well as significantly enhance discovery.
Japan Medical Abstracts Society 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 & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, Nature Publishing, IEEE, ACM and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book, ABC-CLIO, The Hathi Trust and many others.
