ABC CLIO

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ABC CLIO DEFINING HISTORY SINCE 1955 Patrik
EkströmVilnius, May 9th 2007

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Over 50 Years in Publishing
Two Award-winning Serials Databases -- Historical
Abstracts America History and Life
500 Electronic and Print Reference books
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Were going to talk about

• Positioning..
• Historical Abstracts
• America History and Life
• What is..
• History Reference Online

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Historical Abstracts and America History and
Life

• The worlds largest bibliographic historical
  online database
• Abstracts from over 1,700 journals
• Combined the databases have over 1.2 million
  entries
• Full-text links to over 490,000 articles.
  Partners include EBSCO, Project MUSE, JSTOR,
  Ingenta and more
• OpenURL Compliant

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Facts and Figures

• Historical Abstracts
• Provides access to over 730,000 articles and
  entries
• Over 20,000 new articles added each year.
  Approximately 2,000 per month
• Covers World History excluding North America
  Canada
• From period 1450 to the present day
• Links to over 178,000 full text articles

• America History and Life
• Provides access to over 538,000 articles and
  entries
• 16,000 new articles added each year.
  Approximately 1,400 per month
• Covers History and Social Culture of North
  America and Canada
• From pre-history to the present day
• Links to over 313,000 full text articles

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more than just abstractsWHY?

• Definition of an abstract a summary of a text,
  scientific article, document, speech, etc
• The content in Historical Abstracts and America
  History and Life is more than this because-
• Carefully select the abstracts to use and enhance
  from the 1700 journals
• The abstracts are then enhanced by Professors
  and History specialists around the World - they
  add information, indexing terms VALUE to the
  researcher
• Translate article titles and abstracts into
  English- broadening the content available to
  Professors and scholars
• Provides a search engine for an institutions
  history periodical collection
• Quality indexing and abstracting improves the
  research experience
• Full-text links enhance the value of existing
  subscriptions to other services - EBSCO, Project
  MUSE, JSTOR for example
• Excellent historical resource for a variety of
  disciplines - from Womens Studies to Art, Music,
  and Business
• Monthly updates ensure currency

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More than Abstracts.

• Quality indexing and abstracting improves the
  research experience
• Full-text links enhance the value of existing
  subscriptions to other services - EBSCO, Project
  MUSE, JSTOR for example
• Hot links within the database link articles
  together to enrich the search experience
• Determine a chronology that is helpful to the
  Professors and Scholars
• Include Book citation entries indexed and
  Chronology is added
• Cite Masters Theses and Doctural Dissertations
  indexed and a Chronology is added. 
• Monthly updates ensure currency

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The purpose of an abstract in an age of full-text
providers is to

• Make it possible for a researcher to review
  journal articles for usable content and
  historiography
• Determine which articles he/she needs to read and
  in what priority. 
• The abstract tells the researcher basic,
  pertinent information about an article. 
• It gives the researcher the information he/she
  needs to decide which article to read first. 
• With HA's broad searching capabilities, the
  researcher can search by keyword, index term,
  author, time period, etc., and work from the
  results to ensure that the pertinent historical
  journal articles have been considered

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Positioning WHA and WAHLmore than just
abstracts...

• 3 times the number of History resources than
  major History providers
• WHA/WAHL 1,280,000 Other Full text providers
  420,000
• 3 times the number of History Journals than any
  full text provider
• WHA/WAHL 1,729 Other full text providers
  573
• Without WHA or WAHL 76 searches would need to be
  performed to ensure full coverage of one topic
• Only one Single search is required with WHA and
  WAHL to cover all World History
• Excellent historical resource for a variety of
  disciplines - from Womens Studies to Art, Music,
  and Business

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Lets take a look...
Access is available via IP authentication,
password, and/ or referring URL..
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Search interface is customizable by the user or
the institution
Basic Search
Advanced Search
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Customizable Search Results Display Options
Display results in groups of 25, 50, 75, or 100
entries. Sort by author, date, journal,
language, or type of entry. Display in ascending
or descending order. Automatically tag all search
results.
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Full-text Link Options
Activate links to full-text services and journals
from our partners
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Full-Text Linking partners include...
EBSCO - 124,000 Project MUSE -13,000 JSTOR -
173,000 The History Co-op - 9,800 Ingenta -
25,000 Taylor Francis - 5,000 Oxford Univ.
Press - 1,500 SwetsWise - 50,000 ProQuest -
72,000
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Getting the results...
Search results are displayed in a brief, easy
view format Links are displayed Record can be
expanded to show the full abstract
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The full search result record
Detailed Abstract Hyper-text links to related
subjects Email and export options
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Export Options RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite, and
Reference Manager
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Personal Profile feature
Receive automatic email notification of new
database entries with Personal Profile Create up
to 10 profiles Change and edit them at any
time Ensures researchers are kept up to date in
their field of interest
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ABC-CLIO eBooks... A Good Thing is GettingEven
Better
From the leader in history reference comes a new
way to build and use an award-winning history
collection History Reference Online
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Introducing
History Reference Online

• A broad, cross-searchable collection of
  award-winning history encyclopedias, handbooks,
  dictionaries, and guides
• Initial launch comprises 339 titles
• 50 new titles to be added each year
• Available as an annual subscription service
• Available as One Time Purchase of individual
  titles

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Broad coverage providesa wealth of material for
researchers

• Covers
• American and world history
• World and U.S. issues
• Social and cultural history
• Political and military history
• Geography
• Folklore and mythology
• History of religion
• History of science, technology, and environment

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Highlights

• Currency
• 85 of titles making up the initial collection
  have been published
• since 2000
• Size
• With 339 titles in its initial launch, the
  collection is largeand includes many multivolume
  encyclopedias
• Growth
• Growing rapidly at a pace of over 50 titles a
  year, there will be 45 growth in the number of
  titles added to the collection in the next two
  years
• Reference
• Made up of highly-used reference titles,
  providing thousands of primary and secondary
  sources

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The right tool for you

• Save time in collection development --
  award-winning books are automatically added each
  year
• Meet multiple patron needs through unlimited,
  simultaneous use for on-site or remote users
• Provide a user-friendly resource that integrates
  seamlessly into your library with a built-in Help
  feature and User Guide that aid users in
  navigating the tool

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The right tool for your patrons

• Research can be done more efficiently since
  multiple books can be searched and left open on
  the desktop at one time
• Take home just what you need - print and/or email
  individual entries easily
• Save time with citations that are automatically
  provided for all entries
• Search results are easily navigated with
  highlighted search word 'hits' within entries

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The right tool for your faculty

• Create e-reading lists and reference packs easily
  with no additional cost to support course
  curriculum
• Instant access to current scholarly research - at
  home or at the office
• Access to thousands of primary and secondary
  sources for use in lectures

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Helpful Tools Available At the Click of a Button

• Access to the complete Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Automatic citations are provided in four formats
  Chicago, MLA, APA, and Harvard

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Support materials provide research and
navigational guidance

• Fully integrated Help feature, FAQs, and User
  Guide
• QuickStart sheet facilitates user training

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The search screen
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The search results screen
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Search results a closer look
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Free trials available

• Trial request form
• Thank You very much!
• Patrik Ekström