Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), recently signed an agreement. The new deal makes it possible for libraries that subscribe to both WorldCat Local and EBSCOhost services to provide their users with easy online access to the full text of a wide range of authoritative electronic content through the web.
As part of the WorldCat.org Partner Program, EBSCO's authoritative content, which includes some of the most popular databases in libraries, will be more visible to library patrons through WorldCat Local. WorldCat Local is an OCLC service based on the WorldCat.org platform that connects library users to local, regional and global library resources through a single search box. Both OCLC and EBSCO will ensure that libraries that use both WorldCat Local and EBSCOhost services are able to provide their authenticated patrons seamless online access to the full-text information they want - whether it is discovered through WorldCat Local, or through the EBSCO Integrated Search platform.
EBSCO joins a large and rapidly growing list of OCLC eContent partners that includes R.R. Bowker; H.W. Wilson; American Economic Association; American Psychological Association; American Theological Library Association; Modern Language Association; the National Library of Medicine; Harvard University; J. Paul Getty Trust; and a variety of other leading academic and learned societies. These institutions are collaborating on a global scale to ensure that library users can find and access the valuable, authoritative content in their local library, in regional libraries and through the OCLC network of WorldCat libraries worldwide.
