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 Unlimited Priorities Corporation, a company specializing in support for organizations within the information industry, announced the sale of AgeLine, an online bibliographic database produced by AARP and focused on the subject of aging and middle-aged and older adults, to EBSCO Publishing. EBSCO will take over the abstracting and indexing activities from AARP, continue to provide [...]

I was invited yesterday morning to a ProQuest breakfast explaining the development process leading up to their new platform. I thought this was so interesting that I wrote a NewsBreak about it. Rather than recap it here, I’ll simply refer readers to the NewsBreak. Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals

I stopped by the EBSCO booth yesterday and was invited upstairs to their ‘crow’s nest,’ which has a fantastic view of the exhibit hall. Oh yes, and they wanted to bring me up to speed on the new databases they’ve introduced on EBSCOhost: Dental & Oral Sciences Source, Biography Reference Center, Digital Archive collections (sourced [...]