EBSCOhost^® Electronic Journals Service now features a French version of its administrative site.

"We are proud to introduce the French translation of the administrative site of our e-journals service," says Mondane Marchand, product director, EBSCO Information Services SAS. "Thanks to it, French-speaking librarians all over the world will take advantage of using EJS in their mother tongue. I have no doubt that the French-speaking EJS customers will enjoy the user-friendliness this version will provide."

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service 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 access to facilitate both on-campus and remote access to e-journal content, automatic management of e-journal URLs and much more. EJS Enhanced serves as a consolidated gateway that allows users to search and link to (Open URL supported) more than 7,900 journals and 4.7 million articles. EBSCO provides durable URLs for every journal, table of contents and article in EJS Enhanced. No URL maintenance by the library is required.

EBSCO Subscription Services, EBSCO Publishing and EBSCO Book Services form the EBSCO Information Services group. EBSCO is a worldwide leader in providing information access and management solutions through print and electronic journal subscription services, research database development and production, online access to more than 100 databases and thousands of e-journals, and e-commerce book procurement. EBSCO has specialized products and services for academic, medical, government, public and school libraries as well as for corporations and other organizations. EBSCO maintains a comprehensive database of more than 282,000 serial titles and upholds active relationships with more than 60,000 publishers worldwide. 2004 marks EBSCO's 60th year of serving the library and business communities. For more information, visit www.ebsco.com.

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Release Date: Feb. 20, 2004