BIOSIS and EBSCO Publishing today announced a formal agreement to make BIOSIS Previewsâ available on the EBSCOhost^® system. This agreement further enhances what has been a successful partnership between the two companies for several years. Through this arrangement, EBSCO expands its subject- specific reference collection, and BIOSIS provides increased access and full-text linking to its varied and growing customer base.

The choice of EBSCO as a vendor-partner helps BIOSIS target multiple sectors in its customer base. "The combination of BIOSIS' reference searching and EBSCO's electronic full-text libraries appeals to both academic and corporate organizations," said Linda Sacks, Senior Vice President Product Development and Marketing. "The ability to search and access content in an integrated environment is a growing expectation of our customers, both corporate and academic, and having BIOSIS Previews available through EBSCOhost helps to meet this demand."

EBSCO Publishing has tremendously expanded its international customer base over the past few years. Not only does the company's databases offer full text for journals published all over the world, but EBSCO currently provides nation-wide access to its databases in over 50 countries.

"We have received many requests from customers suggesting that we make BIOSIS Previews available via EBSCOhost," said Tim Collins, EBSCO's Vice President and Division General Manager. "The linking capabilities of EBSCOhost will add a great deal of value to the database, allowing researchers to quickly link from citations in BIOSIS Previews to the corresponding full text found in another EBSCOhost database, or elsewhere in a library's collection. We are excited to make this database available to our customers, and look forward to continuing what has been a great working relationship with BIOSIS."

EBSCO will offer the entire BIOSIS Previews file, from 1969 to the present, and plans to have the database available for Summer 2003.

About BIOSIS Previews
The BIOSIS Previews reference database synthesizes traditional and emerging fields of life sciences and biotechnological research, making it appropriate for studies as far ranging as agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, botany, the environment, medical research, neuroscience, pharmacology, proteomics, public health, and zoology. The currency of meetings and patents information, combined with the established research in journals reviews, reports, books, monographs, and bibliographies, aid researchers in completing a variety of research applications in academic, private, and commercial enterprises.

About BIOSIS
BIOSIS www.biosis.org is a not-for-profit organization that provides flexible life sciences information products and services to a global audience. Based in Philadelphia, USA and York, England, BIOSIS utilizes comprehensive coverage of life sciences literature and its own specialized indexing system to present researchers with efficient, user-friendly information resources.

As the world's largest life sciences abstracting and indexing service, BIOSIS offers both custom and standard information resources, each designed to fit the information needs of researchers, students, and information professionals everywhere.

BIOSIS products include: BIOSIS Previews^®, Biological Abstracts, Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), and Zoological Record (published jointly with the Zoological Society of London).

Released: Jan. 24, 2003