1. Business Source Complete ELN – March 5, 2007 Ed Roche – eroche@epnet.com

2. Some International Customers of EBSCO’s Business Source… Cologne London School of Economics University of Tokyo Seoul National University

3. Business Source Complete High Quality Abstracts & Bibliographic Records Indexing & abstracts for 10,549 business publications, including 1,866 peer-reviewed journals Author Supplied Abstracts are now provided for the vast majority of peer-reviewed journals indexed in Business Source Complete (more than 84%) Other articles contain abstracts written by educated professionals Author Supplied Keywords are provided for hundreds of peer reviewed journals Author affiliations & author email addresses are provided when available Indexing is available by thesaurus terms and: Company, NAICS, FASB, Ticker Symbol, Geographic Location, People, etc.

4. Business Source Contains a High Quality Thesaurus 17,267 business-specific terms Ability to Explode Searches (similar to MEDLINE)

5. Enhanced Bibliographic Record – Business Source Complete author email addresses thesaurus terms author supplied keywords author supplied abstracts

6. Superior Headings and Improved EBSCO-Written Abstracts author email addresses document indexing by thesaurus terms indexing by people

7. Business Source Complete 1,217 peer reviewed journals have searchable cited references starting with January 2003 issues (or earlier) Only 234 journals are contained in ISI’s Business Collection Searchable Cited References (with links to full text) Searchable Cited Reference with links to the full text of the original cited work (when available) Times Cited in this Database provides a list of all other papers in the database that cite this work (with links to the full text when available)

8. Peer Reviewed Journals Indexed & Abstracted Business Source Elite (BSE) Business Source Premier (BSP) Business Source Complete (BSC) ABI/INFORM Global ABI/INFORM Complete Business & Company Resource Center 925782 1,8051,520 2,0021,703 1,5911,357 1,6191,377 811718 TotalActive * Figures as of January 2, 2007

9. Working Papers Indexed & Abstracted in Business Source Premier Publication Name Article Count Working Paper Series (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)318 Working Papers (Faculty) -- Stanford Graduate School of Business465 Working Papers (Faculty) -- University of Michigan Business School 254 Working Papers (Pamplin College of Business) -- Virginia Tech Graduate School 32 Working Papers (William Davidson Institute) -- University of Michigan Business School 286 Working Papers -- Columbia University 82 Working Papers -- Duke Fuqua School of Business 172 Working Papers -- Financial Institutions Center at The Wharton School 341 Working Papers -- Harvard Business School Division of Research101 Working Papers -- US Federal Reserve Board's Finance & Economic Discussion Series311 Working Papers -- US Federal Reserve Board's International Finance Discussion Papers190 Working Papers -- University of Michigan Department of Economics7 Working Papers -- University of Toronto Rotman School of Management49 Working Papers -- Yale School of Management595 Total3,203 * Some Stanford working papers will also have full text

10. Business Source Complete: Author Profile BSC now provides author profiles for the 20,000 most cited authors in the database.

11. Full Text

12. Business Source Complete Author Profiles20,000 Business Book Digests648 Full-Text Books/Monographs603 Full-Text Case Studies166 Full-Text Company Profiles10,120 Full-Text Country Economic Reports1,441 Full-Text Industry Reports17,434 Full-Text Interviews (Executive & Analyst)18,000 Full-Text Market Research Reports2,244 Full-Text Peer-Reviewed Journals1,343 Full-Text SWOT Analyses2,493 Full-Text Trade Journals & General Business Magazines1,461 Full-Text Working Papers Collections254 Content Type * Data from January 2, 2007

13. (D) Total Active Full Text Titles [A - (B+C) = D] (C) Ceased Naturally or Changed Names (Full Text Titles) (B) Unnaturally Halted Full Text Titles (A) Total # of Full Text Titles Active, Full Text Serials Compared Database * Figures as of January 2, 2007 Business Source Elite (BSE) Business Source Premier (BSP) Business Source Complete (BSC) ABI/INFORM Global ABI/INFORM Complete Business & Company Resource Center 1,09630314752 9,168707638,335 23,9247082323,301 1,8651544431,268 2,9131608051,948 3,5271647772,586

14. AdministrativeFull Text withHaltedHalted Science QuarterlyNO EmbargoFull TextFull Text Academy ofFull Text withNOHalted Management JournalNO EmbargoFull TextFull Text HarvardFull Text withHaltedNO Business ReviewNO EmbargoFull TextFull Text ManagementEmbargoedEmbargoedEmbargoed ScienceFull TextFull TextFull Text OperationsEmbargoedEmbargoedEmbargoed ResearchFull TextFull TextFull Text Academy ofFull Text withNOHalted Management ReviewNO EmbargoFull TextFull Text Industrial & LaborFull Text withHaltedHalted Relations ReviewNO EmbargoFull TextFull Text CaliforniaFull Text withNOHalted Management ReviewNO EmbargoFull TextFull Text Journal Rank 1234567812345678 EBSCO Management Journals Ranked Study by Coe & Weinstock from Academy of Management Journal Marketing Journals Ranked Study by Gordon and Heischmidt from Journal of Marketing Education * Data from January 2, 2007 GaleProQuest * Data from January 2, 2007 Journal ofFull Text withNOHalted MarketingNO EmbargoFull TextFull Text Journal ofFull Text withNOHalted Marketing Research (JMR)NO EmbargoFull TextFull Text Journal Rank 1212 EBSCOGaleProQuest

15. * Data from January 2, 2007 Journal of EmbargoedNONO Accounting ResearchFull TextFull TextFull Text AccountingFull Text withFull Text withEmbargoed ReviewNO EmbargoNO EmbargoFull Text Journal of AccountingNONONO & EconomicsFull TextFull TextFull Text Accounting OrganizationsNONONO & SocietyFull TextFull TextFull Text ContemporaryEmbargoedNOHalted Accounting ResearchFull TextFull TextFull Text Journal of Accounting,Full Text withNONO Auditing & FinanceNO EmbargoFull TextFull Text Journal Rank 123444123444 EBSCOGaleProQuest Accounting Journals Ranked Hasselback et al, appeared in Accounting Forum, March 2002, Volume 26, Issue 1, Pg 45

16. * Data from January 2, 2007 Additional Selected Journals (Not Shown in the Aforementioned Ranking Studies) Where Ongoing Full Text Coverage is Unique to Business Source Complete Journal Name BSC Embargo (Months) ABI/INFORM “Complete” FT/PDF Coverage Abacus12None Academy of Management Learning & Education 0None Academy of Management Perspectives (formerly called Academy of Management Executive) Accounting & Business Research0None Accounting Historians Journal0None Advances in Consumer Research0None Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy0Ends May 2004 Advances in Macroeconomics0Ends Feb 2004 Advances in Theoretical Economics0Ends Apr 2004 0Ends Nov 2001

17. * Data from January 2, 2007 Journal Name BSC Embargo (Months) ABI/INFORM “Complete” FT/PDF Coverage Journal for the Advancement of Marketing Education Journal of Accounting & Finance Research0None Journal of Advertising Research0None Journal of Agriculture & Food Industrial Organization Journal of Applied Econometrics12Ends Jul 2005 Journal of Applied Psychology12None Journal of Applied Research Business Instruction Journal of Business Communication0None Journal of Business Finance & Accounting12None 0None Additional Selected Journals (Not Shown in the Aforementioned Ranking Studies) Where Ongoing Full Text Coverage is Unique to Business Source Complete

18. * Data from January 2, 2007 Journal Name BSC Embargo (Months) ABI/INFORM “Complete” FT/PDF Coverage Marketing Management0Ends Nov 2002 Marketing Research0Ends Oct 2002 McKinsey Quarterly0None Nonprofit Management & Leadership12None Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics12None Pacific Accounting Review0None Peace Economics, Peace Science & Public Policy Practicing CPA0None Psychology & Marketing12Ends Aug 2005 0None Additional Selected Journals (Not Shown in the Aforementioned Ranking Studies) Where Ongoing Full Text Coverage is Unique to Business Source Complete

19. * Data from January 2, 2007 Journal Name BSC Embargo (Months) ABI/INFORM “Complete” FT/PDF Coverage Systems Research & Behavioral Science (formerly called Systems Research) Thunderbird International Business Review (formerly called International Executive) Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy0Ends Aug 2004 Topics in Macroeconomics0Ends Jul 2004 Topics in Theoretical Economics0Ends Jul 2004 Treasury Affairs0None World Economics0None 12Ends Jul 2005 Additional Selected Journals (Not Shown in the Aforementioned Ranking Studies) Where Ongoing Full Text Coverage is Unique to Business Source Complete

20. NO EMBARGO: Dow Jones (4) EIU Viewswire (1) MIT Sloan Management Review (1) Dow Jones provides four newspapers that are all available via Factiva as well. EBSCO had the opportunity to license EIU Viewswire, but the advisory boards voted that other content was more valuable, and Business Source Complete already contains EIU Country Reports and Country Profiles. In addition, for $187 per year, a university may have a print subscription and institution-wide access to the e-journal for MIT Sloan Management Review – with links from EBSCO’s Business Source. Remaining Key Full Text Publications Unique to ABI/INFORM Complete EMBARGOED: Emerald (104) Oxford University Press (23) Palgrave (10) Sage (26) All of the above “embargoed” publishers offer direct e-journal subscriptions without embargoes, and EBSCO’s Business Source links to all of these publisher sites.

21. Business Monitor International CountryWatch Inc. Datamonitor EIU Country Commerce EIU Profiles EIU Reports Global Insight Inc. (formerly WEFA) Going Global ICON Group International OECD Political Risk Yearbook SOD Total Full Text Country Economic Publications 70 Country Forecast Reports & Monitors - NO Embargo 192 Country Reviews NO Embargo 54 Country Profiles NO Embargo 30 Reference Guides Embargoed (6 months) 70 Country Profiles NO Embargo 77 Country Reports Embargoed (6 months) 114 Country Monitors NO Embargo 39 Country Career Guides NO Embargo 191 Country Economic Studies NO Embargo 232 Country Competitiveness Studies - NO Embargo 36 Country Economic Surveys Embargoed (6 months) 100 Country Risk Reports NO Embargo 198 Background Notes NO Embargo 1,415 Publisher ABI/INFORM Complete FT CoverageBusiness Source FT Coverage None 4 Country Profiles No Embargo 14 Country Reports No Embargo None 23 Country Career Guides NO Embargo None 41 Superior Country Economic Data in BSP/BSC * Figures as of January 2, 2007 * NOTE: ABI also contains EIU Viewswire

22. Morningstar Unique to Business Source Complete Investment Data –Full Text from Morningstar FundInvestor StockInvestor FundFamily Newsletter: Fidelity FundFamily Newsletter: Vanguard –Embargo of 30 days FundFamily Newsletter: American Funds PracticalFinance DividendInvestor

23. Non-Traditional Sources Expansion Coming to Business Source Complete in 2007 [Non-English Serials] French-Language Sources –Will include the entire Vente et Gestion database, a collection of more than 80 French-language full text sources –Includes full text for Revue Francaise du Marketing, Revue des Sciences de Gestion, Recherche et Applications en Marketing, etc. German-Language Sources –Dozens of journals published in German will be added in full text to Business Source Complete Spanish & Portuguese-Language Sources Will include the entire Economia y Negocios database, a collaborative effort between EBSCO and Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados Contains more than 60,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, providing coverage for over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language serials published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere NOTE: The interface will offer a language limiter

25. User Clicks “Publications”

26. User can browse all publications or limit to a specific source type

27. User Clicks “Country Reports”

28. Country Reports Browse by Country or Region

29. User Clicks “Academic Journals”

30. User can browse an alphabetical list of journals or can browse journals in a particular subject area

31. Volumes and issues from former titles appear together with the current title Persistent Link Available to this page The user selects a specific journal…

32. Sample Result List with Multiple Source Types

33. Business Interface Enhancement Planned for Summer 2007 Enabling Regional Business News, EconLit, and Insurance Periodicals Index to be searched within the business interface along with Business Source Premier or Business Source Complete

34. “Also Search”

35. The Advanced, Guided Style Search Screen will, if enabled by clicking on the box under Try New Features, include a link allowing users to add a row of Find fields to the existing three. Note: This feature will initially be released under Try New Features only.

36. Full Text Periodicals7841,2211,3551,506 Full Text SWOT Analyses 1,8242,0942,4922,492 Full Text Country Reports1,3621,3621,4011,401 Full Text Industry Reports3,3074,2995,0285,028 Full Text Books93949595 Business Source: Alumni Edition May 2005 October 2005 October 2006 Projected for May 2007 * Figures as of October 10, 2006

37. EconLit The authoritative index for economic literature EconLit indexes: –Books & Book Reviews –Conference Proceedings & Papers –Doctoral Dissertations –Journal Articles –Working Papers

38. EconLit with Full Text The American Economic Association’s authoritative index will soon have a comprehensive full text version Expected Release: January 2007 400+ full text journals, with many that are unavailable from other full text databases Dozens of full text books, including The Handbook of World Trade

39. EconLit with Full Text Journal Breakdown Total # of Full Text Journals # of Full Text Journals NOT in Business Source Complete # of Full Text Journals NOT in Business Source Premier # of Full Text Journals NOT in Business Source Elite Licensed November 2006 Projected September 2007 401450+ 68100+ 136170+ 239280+

40. EconLit with Full Text Full Text with NO Embargo for: PDF backfiles provided back to the beginning of the EconLit index (1969) Business Source has a 2-year embargo on these journals Full Text is Ceased (Halted) in ABI/INFORM

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