Whois & Analysis for ebscohost.com

EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., the third largest private company in Birmingham, Alabama, with annual sales of nearly $2 billion according to the BBJ's 2013 Book of Lists.

EBSCO offers library resources to customers in academic, medical, K–12, public library, law, corporate, and government markets.

Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost, which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives.

In 2010, EBSCO introduced its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines.

An electronic book (or e-book) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-books exist without a printed equivalent.

An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution which serves two complementary purposes.

A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes.

It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also civil servants.

A database is an organized collection of data.

It is the collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views, and other objects.