Ebsco's Tim Collins

摘要

In the second installment of comer office,rnLJ interviews Tim Collins, president of EBSCO Publishing. Just out of college, he started Popular Magazine Review in 1984 with his stepfather. The tiny magazine abstracts company was snatched up in 1987 by EBSCO Industries, parent of EBSCO Subscription Services. Now, the company Collins has nurtured for over two decades ranks as one of the leading electronic publishers of article and reference databases. (See LJ 8/08 for the Corner Office kickoff, an interview with Patrick Sommers and John Barnes of reference/information giant Gale.)rnThe amiable Collins put EBSCO Publishing (EP) on the map through a combination of first-rate search and user-friendly interfaces, a long list of strategic acquisitions, and a dedicated, stable staff. In 1999, EP bought Novelist, then another small start-up, which connects readers with books. More recently, in 2007, he purchased Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, two classic databases from ABC-CLIO, to which EP has started adding full text.