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Metadata from Mergent, Inc.’s Annual Reports Database to be added to Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service^™

Fort Mill SC, January 13^th, 2011– Mergent, Inc. today announced an agreement with EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), allowing metadata from Mergent’s Annual Reports Database, to be added to the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service^™ (EDS). The addition of Mergent resources to the EDS Base Index enhances the quality of metadata available and brings added value to EDS customers.

Mergent’s Annual Reports Database includes more than 300,000 annual reports from global publicly traded companies and is continually updated throughout the year. Metadata from Mergent’s collection will also include archived annual reports dating back ten years. Additional collections from Mergent may be added to the Base Index of EDS in the future. 

The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world’s foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 100 million newspaper articles, more than 20,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

Founded in 1900, Mergent has become a leading provider of business and financial data on global publicly listed companies. The company is based in the U.S. but maintains a strong global presence, with offices in New York, Charlotte, San Diego, London, Tokyo and Melbourne.

About Mergent

Mergent, Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial information on global publicly listed companies. Based in the U.S., the company maintains a strong international presence, with offices in New York, Fort Mill, San Diego, London, Tokyo and Melbourne. With roots tracing back to 1900, Mergent operates one of the longest continuously collected databases of: descriptive and fundamental information on domestic and international companies; pricing and terms and conditions data on fixed income and equity securities; and corporate action data. Mergent delivers this data through desktop applications, data feeds and other custom services to a global client base. For more information, visit http://www.mergent.com

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^®, PsycINFO^® and RILM^™. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost^®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world.

EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service^™ a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution’s resources within a single, customizable search point providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). 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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