Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that more than 100,000 institutions are benefiting from free resources offered via EBSCOhost. EBSCO has been providing key database content free of charge since 2008. Two free EBSCOhost resources - GreenFILE and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - have seen a tremendous amount of usage.
GreenFILE focuses on environmental efforts while LISTA is geared toward those interested in libraries and information management. According to the company, more than 100,000 institutions are benefiting from the free content in GreenFILE or LISTA. Statistics over the past 12 months have shown that there have been nearly 100 million searches for these two EBSCOhost resources alone - nearly 53 million searches performed in GreenFILE and more than 46 million searches in LISTA.
EBSCOhost databases are usually available by institution-level subscription only. By making GreenFILE and LISTA freely available to anyone, EBSCO seeks to make it easy for those interested in environmental or library & information resources to get quick access to relevant information.
GreenFILE is a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. The database offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimise these effects.
LISTA indexes more than 550 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. It is EBSCO's intention to provide access to LISTA on a continual basis at www.libraryresearch.com. Customers currently subscribing to other EBSCOhost databases may elect to have LISTA added to their EBSCOhost profile.
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