Ebsco

Ebsco supplies libraries and institutions with research databases, e-books, e-journals and magazine subscriptions, plus a discovery search tool. Its users include academic and public libraries, corporations, schools, government bodies and medical institutions.

What Ebsco offers

• Research databases — peer-reviewed research and evidence-based content across subjects.
• Research starter articles — background articles with citations on a given topic.
• Themed collections — subject-based groupings of material, for example humanities and social sciences, or earth and atmospheric sciences.
• Discovery service — a search layer that helps users find relevant content across its resources.
• EBSCOhost platform — a route to access its databases directly, alongside access through an institution.

Who it works with

Its customers range from academic and public libraries and schools to companies, government bodies and medical institutions; readers usually get access typically provided through a university, college, hospital or library.