~ New EBSCOhost® Database Includes Scholarly Journals from Brazil and Portugal ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — October 2, 2009 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released a new resource providing more international full text coverage for Portuguese-language content. Fonte Académica™ offers a rapidly growing collection of scholarly journals from Brazil and Portugal. This new EBSCOhost® database includes over 125 full text Portuguese-language journals and continuously expanding archives from Brazil and Portugal.
With comprehensive indexing of every article and detailed abstracts in multiple languages, Fonte Académica is an indispensable tool for students and researchers. Search functionality is enhanced through the incorporation of author-supplied keywords in Portuguese. Users of Fonte Académica are provided with coverage of all major subject areas with particular emphasis on the following:
• agriculture
• biological sciences
• economics
• history
• law
• literature
• medicine
• philosophy
• psychology
• public administration
• religion
• sociology
EBSCO is dedicated to expanding its international coverage and also recently released two databases featuring scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, Fuente Académica™ and Fuente Academica Premier™.
About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source®, CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, INSPEC®, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher’s Index™, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com.
EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com