SLA and EBSCO announce access to databases
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17th June 2008

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Members of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) http://www.sla.org/ can now access two EBSCO Publishing http://www.ebscohost.com/ files free of charge via the SLA Web site. As part of the Association’s ‘Knowledge to Go Green’ initiative members can search GreenFILE, an environmental database that provides information on climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy from a number of scholarly, government and general-interest titles. More than 380,000 records are indexed and abstracted: of those, 4,700 are provided as Open Access full text. According to SLA Chief Executive Officer Janice R Lachance, the initiative ‘is designed to empower individual members with the inspiration and the information necessary to implement greener practices in their activities on behalf of SLA, as well as their employers.’ The second file available is Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA). This file covers librarianship, information management, online searching, classification and cataloguing with records back to the mid-1960s. 690 periodicals are indexed, as well as a number of books, research reports and proceedings. Being a research tool for the information professional it has an extensive thesaurus – 6,800 terms in total, of which 2,700 are preferred terms. Lachance states that these resources are made available to ‘augment the association's mission of providing information professionals with content that gives them a competitive advantage, as well as professional development resources’. Donald P. Doak, Vice President, Corporate, Federal & Partnership sales at EBSCO agrees. ‘Having SLA offer easy access to GreenFILE and LISTA to its members is a great example of how the association helps members succeed. The easy access to these databases should allow members to push their green efforts and their professional development to the next level’ http://digbig.com/4xbjr.

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