EBSCO Information Services

Gar Sydnor – Vice President of Discovery Innovation

Timothy Lull - Vice President of Sales, SaaS

What we do?• Family owned business started in 1944 as a print subscription business (Elton B. Stephens Co.)

• Forbes Magazine ranked top 200 largest private companies in the United States

• Dun & Bradstreet 5A1 credit rating – The highest rank

• Corporate HQ is in Birmingham, Alabama - Largest office in Ipswich, MA – Local office in New Barnet, UK

• International company providing solutions to all regions and markets including; Academics, Publics, Schools, Medical Institutions, Hospitals, Corporations, and Government

• Very few libraries in the world that do not have an EBSCO subscription or product

What is the approach?• Provide custom library solutions from content to technology

• Partner with libraries, publishers, aggregators, ILS vendors, and technology partners to create library solutions (thousands of partnerships)

• Dedicated to choice, interoperability, extensibility, and innovation

• Print subscriptions, e-journals, eBooks, databases, discovery, search technology, authentication, library websites, knowledge base, link resolver, analytics, linked data, and more……..

• Support those solutions with a long term vision, not short term goals.

Cultivating the Online User

Are there barriers to access?

Is the Website delightful?

Can your resources be found?

Are you hiding your resources?

SAAS PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Open Athens

Stacks: A Better CMS

Linked Data

Which is better?LIST OF DATABASES

ONE UNIVERSAL

INDEX

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