Open Access Titles from BioMed Central Now Accessible Through EBSCOhost ® Electronic Journals Service

BIRMINGHAM , Alabama , U.S.A. , May 15, 2005 – Articles from more than 100 open access journals available from BioMed Central are now available via EBSCOhost ® Electronic Journals Service (EJS). Access to this content – more than 8,700 articles from over 100 journals – is available to customers who sign up for the BioMed Central package on EJS.

BioMed Central research articles are “open access” and are immediately and permanently available online without charge. Some journals require an institutional or personal subscription to view content such as reviews. Research articles published by BioMed Central are archived in PubMed Central and are permanently accessible and searchable. For more information on BioMed Central journals, visit www.biomedcentral.com.

BioMed Central open access journals are also part of the extensive EBSCO A-to-Z SM (A-to-Z) master title database. A-to-Z offers access to hundreds of free online journals, such as those found in PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov), the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org) and the Free Medical Journals package.

EJS handles electronic journal access and management needs. EJS Enhanced offers extensive features that help with e-journal management tasks such as tracking the registration status of e-journals, authentication assistance to facilitate both on-campus and remote access to e-journal content, automatic management of e-journal URLs and much more. EBSCO provides durable URLs for every journal, table of contents and article in EJS Enhanced. No URL maintenance by the library is required. To view a complete list of the 11,900 journals presently available via EJS, visit http://ejournals.ebsco.com.

A-to-Z provides library staff and patrons with a single, comprehensive list of titles to which they have access, allowing them to easily locate and link to all your e-resources. For more information on A-to-Z or to sign up for a free trial, visit www.ebsco.com/atoz.

About EBSCO Information Services

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.