IPSWICH, Mass. — December 11, 2006 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and the renowned literary journal The Paris Review are pleased to announce a landmark partnership for both organizations. As a result of this partnership, EBSCO will be the only source for electronic access to the full text of The Paris Review.

The Paris Review, which has long been America’s preeminent magazine devoted to new fiction, poetry, and contemporary literary thought, will soon be available to libraries and other organizations via EBSCO’s Humanities International Complete™ (HIC) database. Full text of The Paris Review will be offered in HIC beginning with Volume 1, Issue 1 from 1953 and continuing through to the present day with ongoing coverage (i.e., no embargo).

Under the editorship of George Plimpton for its first fifty years, The Paris Review introduced many of our greatest contemporary writers to their first readers – publishing the earliest works of Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Jack Kerouac, Ha Jin, Mona Simpson, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Its carefully crafted interviews with the literary masters are quite widely considered one of the great archival treasures of world literature. And the tradition continues under the editorship of Philip Gourevitch, who was appointed in 2005 following Plimpton’s death. Writing of the revitalized magazine, the Washington Post just recently declared: “It’s better than ever.”

Available through the EBSCOhost^® platform, Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world. This database includes over 2 million indexed records from more than 2,000 publications, as well as the full text from over 700 titles. Humanities International Complete is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for libraries looking to provide comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full-text content

According to The Paris Review Editor Philip Gourevitch, “The Paris Review has long been, simultaneously, a pioneer of new literary frontiers and a home to the old masters – and EBSCO Publishing, too, is a pioneer devoted to bringing the finest database services possible to libraries and other institutions world-wide. Our partnership with EBSCO will make The Paris Review’s beloved archive available to thousands of readers, writers, and scholars of literature the world over – and reflects our commitment to spreading the most timeless of pleasures, great writing, in the most complete and accessible format available.” Michael Laddin, Director of Business Development at EBSCO adds, “We are looking forward to a mutually beneficial long-term relationship with The Paris Review and are excited to make such a distinguished and renowned publication available electronically to customers of Humanities International Complete.”

According to author Margaret Atwood, “The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century--and now of the twenty-first.”

Author Salman Rushdie has said, “I have been fascinated by The Paris Review interviews for as long as I can remember. Taken together, they form perhaps the finest available inquiry into the 'how' of literature, in many ways a more interesting question than the ‘why.’”

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