EBSCO BSC+ integrates company and news data
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By Penny Crossland

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EBSCO Publishing is best known for its subscription management services for libraries. However the vendor also offers powerful business information tools for corporate users, consisting of a portfolio of databases and workflow solutions that has recently been expanded.

Knowledgespeak last week alerted us to a new release by EBSCO Publishing called Business Source Corporate Plus (BSC+), a business information product that is part of the publisher’s offering for corporations and that will be of interest to many information professionals in corporate research centres.

Billed as “the most comprehensive collection of premium business information”, the BSC+ offering does sound impressive: in addition to more than 4,000 full-text business, academic and industry journals and magazines and 1,000 newspapers, BSC+ has included a Company View feature, which according to EBSCO, provides detailed information on more than 1 million public and private companies worldwide. Company information includes details of subsidiaries, SWOT analysis, as well as pertinent market research and sector information.

Like many online aggregators, Company View includes links to news stories, market research and profiles relating to each company. What makes this feature compelling is that these links are to articles from well-respected publications, which are frequently not available online or if so, then behind paywalls.

BSC+’s other feature, News View is more reminiscent of an online news aggregator. This offers almost real-time news from more than 10,000 websites and news wires. Being subscription-based also had its advantages with this feature: I noticed that one of the news sources is the Wall Street Journal, which as we know is not free to access.

The new service makes full use of EBSCO’s other products by providing access to 950 full-text books, conference proceedings and country reports.

The EBSCO BSC+ launch follows a few months after the company’s acquisition of H.W.Wilson, reported by Nancy Davis Kho here, which provided the company with a major boost to its reference portfolio.

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