New England Journal of Medicine Available via EBSCOhost^®
MEDLINE^® with Full Text to Feature Full-Text Coverage of Journal Back to 1993

IPSWICH, Mass. - March 7, 2007 - EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has recently signed a new agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine to make the journal’s content available via MEDLINE^® with Full Text on the EBSCOhost^® platform. Full-text coverage of the New England Journal of Medicine will extend back to 1993 (with a 90-day embargo) and will also include embedded image content.

”We are pleased to establish this new option for access to much of the Journal’s content, in response to many requests from librarians serving a wide spectrum of communities,” said Tom Richardson, Director of Institution Sales and Services for the New England Journal of Medicine.

According to Melissa Kenton, Vice President of Publisher Relations for EBSCO, “Adding the New England Journal of Medicine to EBSCO's unparalleled offering of full-text peer reviewed content will further establish us as the leading aggregator of scholarly full-text databases.”

MEDLINE^® with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. With full-text coverage dating back to 1965, MEDLINE with Full Text is the definitive research tool for medical literature.

EBSCO is committed to the development, expansion and ongoing refinement of its suite of clinical and health-related resources. Through a combination of guidance from multiple focus groups and overall customer feedback, as well as the efforts of EBSCO’s dedicated medical product development staff, the company has successfully implemented several new features within MEDLINE with Full Text such as an enhanced thesaurus, streamlined search history, and other such improvements designed to make the search experience more intuitive and efficient.

About the New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine is the most widely read, cited, and influential medical journal in the world. Every week, more than 500,000 readers in over 170 countries rely on the Journal for the information they need to provide their patients with the best possible care. The Journal, the oldest continuously-published medical periodical in the world, is owned and published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. For more information, please visit the Journal’s Web site at www.nejm.org.

About EBSCO
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 200 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@epnet.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
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kmcevoy@ebscohost.com