Free access to swine flu resources from Gale and EBSCO; ABC-CLIO signs on with Summon; EOS.Web Academic announced

-- Library Journal, 10/08/2009

Gale is providing free access to Global Issues in Context and health and medical-related ebooks from the Gale Virtual Reference Library to make reliable, expert information regarding the H1N1 virus, commonly known as “swine flu,” readily available. Librarians can install a widget (www.gale.cengage.com/flu) to their homepage, Facebook page, or blog, allowing their community to access the information at the library or from any computer with an Internet connection.

Not to be outdone by Gale, EBSCO Publishing and the medical editors of DynaMed also have created a free site containing the clinical summaries related to Pandemic H1N1. The web site (www.ebscohost.com/flu) contains flu-related content from DynaMed, Nursing Reference Center, and Patient Education Reference Center. The site is designed to provide doctors, nurses, and patients with the latest evidence-based information related to influenza—including patient information in 17 languages.

Researchers worldwide now be will finding content of reference publisher ABC-CLIO through Serials Solutions’ Summon web-scale discovery service. ABC-CLIO is part of a burgeoning movement of publishers choosing to make their material more discoverable to students and faculty via this service, with other recent additions from M.E. Sharpe, Knovel, IBIS, and Duke University Press. Summon now harvests content from more than 6000 providers and more than 50,000 journals and contains nearly half a billion records.

EOS International announced the introduction of the newly developed EOS.Web Academic. The vendor said the product is configured specifically to manage the demands of academic institutions, and EOS International has a client base of academic libraries ranging from large universities to community colleges around the world. Using the foundation modules contained in EOS.Web, EOS.Web Academic provides a robust set of tools designed to enhance librarians’ role as researcher and knowledge manager for their institution.