Tim Lull, Vice President of Sales and Gar Sydnor, Vice President of Discovery Innovation, showcases EBSCO and how this product benefits the identity and access management community.

1. EBSCO Information
Services
Gar Sydnor – Vice President of Discovery Innovation
Timothy Lull - Vice President of Sales, SaaS

2. What we do?
• Family owned business started in 1944 as a print subscription business (Elton B. Stephens Co.)
• Forbes Magazine ranked top 200 largest private companies in the United States
• Dun & Bradstreet 5A1 credit rating – The highest rank
• Corporate HQ is in Birmingham, Alabama - Largest office in Ipswich, MA – Local office in New
Barnet, UK
• International company providing solutions to all regions and markets including; Academics,
Publics, Schools, Medical Institutions, Hospitals, Corporations, and Government
• Very few libraries in the world that do not have an EBSCO subscription or product

3. What is the approach?
• Provide custom library solutions from content to technology
• Partner with libraries, publishers, aggregators, ILS vendors, and technology partners to create
library solutions (thousands of partnerships)
• Dedicated to choice, interoperability, extensibility, and innovation
• Print subscriptions, e-journals, eBooks, databases, discovery, search technology, authentication,
library websites, knowledge base, link resolver, analytics, linked data, and more……..
• Support those solutions with a long term vision, not short term goals.

4. Cultivating the Online User
Are there barriers to
access?
Is the Website
delightful?
Can your resources be
found?
Are you hiding your
resources?

5. SAAS PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Open Athens
Stacks: A Better CMS
Linked Data

9. Which is better?
LIST OF DATABASES
ONE
UNIVERSAL
INDEX

17. Thank You