1. Gain Global Exposure: Partner with EBSCO to Promote your Scholarship
Arabic Literature and International Publishing Prospects: Opportunities and Challenges
July 19, 2017
Mohamed Abdelsalam
ME Publishers Relations Manager, EBSCO

2. Partnering with EBSCO
Primary Benefits of

3. EBSCO: The Bridge between Publishers and Libraries
For Publishers
Expands your reach across regions and markets
Cost savings
Professional international sales people
For Libraries
Broad selection of titles, from thousands of publishers
Great range of access models for different subsets of content
Common acquisition and management workflow
Familiar platform means less training
EBSCO Overview

4. EBSCO is Aggregator not a Publisher
Primary Benefits of Partnering with EBSCO

5. Improved brand recognition Additional website traffic
Primary Benefits of Partnering with EBSCO
Increased exposure
Improved brand recognition
Additional website traffic
Visibility for titles & authors
Exchange of ideas
Increased subscriptions
Citations  Impact Factor

6. EBSCOhost™ Partnership Process
Step 1: Nomination
EBSCO Product Management team selects publications to be included in the databases, based upon scientific and editorial standards, uniqueness of content, and relevance to the database.
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Publishers, Editors or Authors contact EBSCO and ask to participate in the databases.
Full-Text Databases

7. EBSCOhost™ Partnership Process
Keeping your website up-to-date and informative
Marking clearly what languages are contained in the title
It could be helpful to be included in one of the major Indexes
Full-Text Databases

8. EBSCOhost™ Partnership Process
Step 2: Evaluation
When EBSCO receives a request to participate, the publication is evaluated.
If we find non-unique content or failure to cite sources properly, or if the publication does not meet scientific and editorial standards of quality, it is refused.
If the publication is good, it is assigned to a suitable EBSCOhost database.
Full-Text Databases

9. EBSCOhost™ Partnership Process
Step 3: Licensing
After a publication has been nominated or approved, then the EBSCO Content Licensing team contacts the right-holder and asks them to sign an agreement.
EBSCO does not include content without proper permission
EBSCO honors international standards of copyright law (Berne Convention).
Full-Text Databases

10. Step 4: Data Acquisition
EBSCOhost™ Partnership Process
Step 4: Data Acquisition
The newly-licensed titles are set up in EBSCO’s systems and assigned to appropriate databases.
When that is done, EBSCO’s data acquisition team contacts the publisher to begin content delivery.
Delivery is usually done by FTP.
The preferred format for journals is PDF.
Full-Text Databases

11. Step 5: Editorial Processing
EBSCOhost™ Partnership Process
Step 5: Editorial Processing
EBSCO adds editorial enhancements including:
Table of contents
Tagging images
Abstracts
Live links
Keywords
Subject indexing
Creating a searchable PDF
Full-Text Databases

12. EBSCOhost™ Partnership Process
Important Points:
Journals are included in the databases article-by-article.
The publisher retains all rights in the publication.
There is never a fee to the publisher.
The Agreement is non-exclusive.
Full-Text Databases

13. EBSCO Discovery Service

14. Discovery allows a fast, easy search across a library’s print and electronic information resources, including both paper and electronic materials.
EBSCO Discovery Service

15. Discovery offers fast, easy access to ALL of an organization’s electronic and print full-text content in a single search box
Books
e-books
Newswires
Book Summaries
Government Documents
Trade Publications
Case Studies
TV & Radio News Transcripts
Industry Reports
Company Profiles
Journals
PLUS the library’s catalog and institution repositories
Conference Papers
Law Documents
Congressional Documents
Magazines
Country Reports
Newspapers
EBSCO Discovery Service

17. How can a publisher participate in EBSCO Discovery Service?
If you include your journal in a full-text database, it will also be indexed in Discovery.
If EBSCO sells your eBooks, they will also be indexed in Discovery.
If your institution has a database you wish to index in Discovery:
Contact us & submit a data sample
EBSCO reviews
We sign an agreement & proceed to load data.

18. Licensing:. Mohamed Abdel Salam Morsi. msalam@ebsco. com
Licensing: Mohamed Abdel Salam Morsi Sales: Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil

19. Thank you July 19, 2017 Mohamed Abdelsalam
ME Publishers Relations Manager, EBSCO