Birmingham, Ala., – Sept. 25, 2009 –EBSCO is pleased to announce that the Department of Health, Victoria, Australia has selected EBSCO as its managing agent for the next phase of the Clinicians Health Channel contract, providing a web-based portal for all departmental employees to access world-class clinical health and decision-support resources. This opportunity further extends the Clinician’s Health Channel information service to healthcare practitioners, clinicians, doctors, nurses and health librarians throughout Victoria’s metropolitan and rural areas.
The EBSCO solution encompasses the newly released EBSCOhost® Integrated Search (EHIS) for state-of-the art federated searching for subscribed health content and utilizes Web-based tools EBSCO A-to-Z® and LinkSource® for content access and management.
The portal solution provides key research databases MEDLINE®, CINAHL® Plus with Full Text, and PsycINFO® via the powerful and intuitive EBSCOhost® platform and includes Dynamed™, the leading evidence-based decision support medical reference available today.
This long-term deal has been awarded to EBSCO in collaboration with MIMS Australia and other key Australian and international publishers in the clinical health sector, including publisher partners Australian Medicines Handbook, Therapeutic Guidelines, STAT!Ref, Wiley and Elsevier journals, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal and others.
In addition to providing Web-based access and management tools to the Department of Health, EBSCO has partnered with Eduserv ANZ to ensure seamless and reliable access to content through the Athens authentication system. Furthermore, all users will benefit from 24/7 Help Desk and ongoing customer support available to all departmental staff.
“This is an opportunity for growth into Australian medical markets where EBSCO information can greatly benefit researchers and health workers,” said Sid McNeal, Vice President/General Manager of EBSCO International. He added that, “We are fortunate to be able to provide the most advanced federated search platform, the best Web-based tools in the industry and unparalleled access to the most complete medical content from EBSCOhost. We hope that this collaboration continues for years to come.”
“EBSCO is in the unique position to be able to offer a greatly enhanced service to the Clinicians Health Channel in terms of delivering quality content via our own EBSCOhost research databases and EBSCO Web-based tools,” says Jay Glaisyer, Head of Business Development at EBSCO Information Services Australia. “EBSCO’s solution goes further than ever before, allowing full integration between the state-held resources and the local hospital collections. Now users can use a single sign-on for all content to which they are entitled, at anytime, from anywhere.”
EBSCOhost is one of the most used research platforms available, offering users a simple and intuitive search experience. EBSCO A-to-Z is a locator tool listing all of a library's e-resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases, publisher packages and e-books. LinkSource is an OpenURL link resolver that allows item-level linking between online services, including e-journal sites, full-text and secondary research databases, OPACs, Web sites, search engines, document delivery and interlibrary loan forms.
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 medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, 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.
About EBSCO
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