IPSWICH, Mass. — January 19, 2007 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and the American Economic Association (AEA) are pleased to announce the release of EconLit™ with Full Text.  Building upon the renowned EconLit index, this database immediately takes residence as the definitive full-text collection for literature in the fields of economics. The exclusive partnership allows EBSCO to offer full-text coverage for the top-ranked American Economic Association journals including deep backfiles and current issues (with no embargo).

EconLit with Full Text offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full-text economics publications. This resource includes all of the bibliographic content in EconLit as well as full-text for more than 400 journals in the fields of economics and finance, including the AEA journals American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives.  The AEA has cancelled all full-text agreements with other commercial aggregators, choosing EBSCOhost® as the aggregator to produce EconLit with Full Text.  In addition to AEA content, the database includes many other full-text journals, books & monographs, non-English publications, etc.

About the American Economic Association
The American Economic Association (www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/) was first organized in 1885, and incorporated in 1923.  The purposes of the Association are: the encouragement of economic research, especially the historical and statistical study of the actual conditions of industrial life; the issue of publications on economic subjects; and the encouragement of perfect freedom of economic discussion. From 1885 to about 1910, the membership of the Association consisted mainly of college and university teachers of economics. With the growing general interest in the subject of economics after the turn of the century, the Association attracted an increasing number of members from business and professional groups. Today the membership is approximately 18,000. In addition, about 4,200 libraries, institutions, and firms subscribe to the quarterly publications of the Association.

About EBSCO
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 200 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, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, 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@epnet.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
(800) 653-2726 ext. 594
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