Home Improvement Reference Center™—Now Available From EBSCO
EBSCO Publishing Expands its Collection of Do-It-Yourself Resources

IPSWICH, Mass. — April 24 , 2007 —EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has recently partnered with Creative Publishing international (CPi), an imprint of the Quayside Publishing Group, to create the definitive resource for home improvement and repair. Home Improvement Reference Center™, the latest in EBSCO’s growing collection of do-it-yourself resources, contains 24 major full-text reference works from CPi and more than 10,000 illustrative images. None of the included content (reference works and images) from CPi is available through any other database aggregator or eBook vendor.

Home Improvement Reference Center is the definitive online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc. The database also contains full text for many other related publications that help to supplement and support the unique full-text reference works and images from CPi. This resource is made available through its own specialized interface to make searching for information of interest as easy as possible. Remote access is also available so that library patrons can easily access the information in Home Improvement Reference Center from their own home.

According to Ken Fund, President and CEO of the Quayside Publishing Group, “We are excited about this partnership with EBSCO. As the leading provider of reference databases for libraries, EBSCO was an obvious choice to help make the powerful CPi content available to a larger audience. We are confident that Home Improvement Reference Center will be a great solution for our library customers.”

About CPi
Founded in 1969, Creative Publishing international is a worldwide publisher of photographic step-by-step how-to books. The company's current retail offering includes hundreds of titles in the categories of home improvement, home decorating, sewing, crafting, and hunting & fishing. Creative Publishing international is an imprint of the Quayside Publishing Group, with offices in Beverly, MA and Chanhassen, MN. Quayside Publishing Group is one of the U.S. publishing divisions of the U.K. based Quarto Group. Quarto originates and creates illustrated books and art prints for customers around the world.

About EBSCO

EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of approximately 250 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source^®, CINAHL^®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList^®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, MEDLINE^®, MLA International Bibliography, PsycARTICLES^® and PsycINFO^®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost^®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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Kathleen McEvoy
Media Communications Coordinator
(800) 653-2726 ext. 594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com