Electronic research databases provider EBSCO publishing (EBSCO), a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., US, has announced an agreement with NewsBank, inc., a premier information provider serving publishers, public libraries, colleges and universities, schools, government and military libraries, genealogists, professionals and researchers worldwide. Under the deal, customers subscribing to databases from EBSCOhost and NewsBank, will now be able to link to NewsBank results using the EBSCOhost interface.
Through integrated search technology imbedded in EBSCOhost, mutual subscribers will be able to access results from NewsBank after launching a search in EBSCOhost. The service is free to mutual customers of both EBSCOhost and NewsBank full-text news databases. A new link on the EBSCOhost interface allows users to go directly to their NewsBank results based on the EBSCOhost search.
EBSCOhost is a leading search platform and is used as the primary research interface in tens of thousands of libraries around the world. This agreement allows mutual customers to search the widely used EBSCOhost interface to find NewsBank results and then access them in the NewsBank interface.
