EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus - a Serious Contender
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By Catherine Dhanjal

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What place could EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus have in your armoury of business and news sources? We find out.

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Back in 2011 we reported on the launch of a new product from EBSCO: Business Source Corporate Plus (BSC+), the launch following hard on the heels of EBSCO's acquisition of reference and indexing services specialist, H.W.Wilson and building those strengths into BSC+.

BSC+ is so versatile that it appears into two of our recent market landscape reports: for company information where its access to deep company information is highlighted and for consumer research sources, where its global coverage and targeted searching through the subject-specific thesaurus are noted as particular strengths. 

Curated Premium Business Information

Reviews of company information providers and news aggregators continue to be amongst the most popular areas with the FreePint audience.

As our recent product review demonstrates (Subscriber content), BSC+ positions itself as offering "a broad set of curated premium business reference content for all industries". 

It can be integrated into enterprise search applications, corporate portals and intranets and caters to users in large companies in North America as well as UK, Germany and Asia. 

Group Strength 

Our latest News Needs & Preferences Survey demonstrates that parent company EBSCO Information Services continues to be a force to be reckoned with in news research through EBSCOhost, whilst our 2015 ebook research showed that EBSCO eBooks is one of the five pre-eminent book services for enterprises. 

Find Out More

BSC+ continues to develop its content provision and plans to introduce new types of content, particularly R&D and related sources. As reviewer Sophie Alexander comments, BSC+ "is one of only a few providers offering such a wide range of content via a single search platform".

FreePint Subscribers can log in now to read our detailed analysis of BSC+ in our Product Review of EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus.

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