EBSCO Adds Content to BookSource: Nonfiction™ Database

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 6, 2005 — In an effort to provide libraries with the best-rounded full text collection of easily-accessible, nonfiction books, EBSCO Publishing is excited to announce that BookSource: Nonfiction ™ now features even more high-quality nonfiction content. In particular, this database now offers more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books including 1,300 that are part of the Accelerated Reader (AR) program used by many schools.

BookSource: Nonfiction , available via EBSCOhost ®, is a unique and comprehensive research database. A kaleidoscope of information, this completely full text database is fully searchable and also offers informative abstracts. BookSource: Nonfiction provides full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books that are favored by schools and public libraries. This database provides an exciting variety of books including many complete series from popular publishers such as Bess Press, Capstone Press, Chelsea House, Compass Point Books, Crabtree Publishing, Fulcrum Publishing, Great Neck Publishing, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds, Inc., Oliver Press, Oxford University Press, Rourke Publishing LLC, and Stackpole Books.

Full Text subject content in BookSource: Nonfiction includes biographies, social studies, history, and science, as well as additional valuable information on careers, health & medical issues, life skills, sports, adventure, technology, ethnicity and disabilities.

Users of BookSource: Nonfiction can limit their searches by one or more of the following criteria: book title, year published, Lexile reading level, number of pages, or articles with images. Furthermore, searches can be conducted from book title and subject authority files.

The book content in BookSource: Nonfiction is broken into manageable, meaningful units. These units can be chapters, sub-headings, or whole books for short, one-subject publications. Each unit will appear as its own record in the result list with citation information and a detailed abstract. The citation for each record will also include a link, "Click to view Table of Contents," that will provide a table of contents list of all related records from the same publication.

EBSCO Publishing is part of the EBSCO Information Services group. EBSCO Information Services provides libraries and research centers with online and print journal subscription services, e-resource access and management services, full-text and secondary database development and access, an OpenURL-compliant link resolver, online book purchasing and related information services. EBSCO maintains a title database of more than 298,000 serial titles and upholds relationships with more than 78,000 publishers around the world. EBSCO’s 32 Regional Offices worldwide are staffed with personnel who speak the local language and understand the particular challenges faced by librarians in their areas, offering a uniquely personal level of service. Specialized divisions serve academic, biomedical, government, public, school and special libraries as well as corporations. For more information, visit www.ebsco.com.