American Humanities Index™ from EBSCO Expands to Become Humanities International Index™

IPSWICH, Mass. — November 30, 2005 — In response to the growing demand for coverage of international content, EBSCO Publishing is pleased to announce that the American Humanities Index™ has expanded to become the Humanities International Index™.

Humanities International Index, along with its full text companion, Humanities International Complete™ will continue to be produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing) which has produced the highly regarded American Humanities Index since 1975.

According to Whitston publisher Michael Laddin, “Not only have libraries been looking for more high quality humanities content, they also want greater international coverage, including non-English language titles. After 30 years, it was time for American Humanities Index to take the next logical step based on what our customers and the market are looking for.”

“It has taken more than two years to research, collect and index the many hundreds of titles added to American Humanities Index to create Humanities International Index” said Laddin. “This includes adding backfile content for key humanities journals that librarians have told us they wanted.”

Humanities International Index provides high quality indexing of journals, books and other published sources from around the world, with a focus on literary, scholarly and creative thought. It contains over 1.6 million records and provides coverage of over 1,900 titles dating as far back as 1925. Humanities International Index is an invaluable resource for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities with worldwide content. Its companion product, Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full text content.

EBSCO Publishing is part of the EBSCO Information Services group. 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 300,000 title listings 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.