EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced a new agreement with Infogroup. The agreement allows EBSCO to resell ReferenceUSA, the leading provider of business and consumer research, to libraries.
ReferenceUSA is a provider of business and consumer content, including real-time access to information on more than 24 million businesses, 235 million consumers, new U.S. businesses & new U.S. homeowners and Canadian businesses & residents. The telephone-verified data is updated monthly and includes validated business information including executive information, corporate trees, employee size and sales volume plus industry and business profiles. This trusted data is used to power the major search engines and the leading in-car navigation systems. ReferenceUSA is a product offering of Infogroup, the leading provider of high-value data and multichannel marketing solutions.
ReferenceUSA provides data visualization including heat maps, a search-by-map feature that allows users to set boundaries search by zip code options as well as exportable charts and graphs. ReferenceUSA provides detailed business information so researchers, students and job-seekers can quickly answer a variety of questions - helping users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, look for business partnerships, raise funds and locate people. The consumer database includes contact information, geographical details and lifestyle information providing researchers with an understanding of where a specific demographic group can be found within a specific location. The job search information provides job listings from Indeed and may be cross-searched by company, geography and more.
EBSCO will soon provide metadata from ReferenceUSA to searchers using EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). ReferenceUSA 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 HathiTrust and many others.
