Merger of EBSCO Publishing and H. W. Wilson Company

The announcement this week of the merger between publishers EBSCO Publishing and H. W. Wilson Company has the library world all a twitter (in the old-school twitter sense).  Some sources describe it as EBSCO acquiring Wilson.

Here is the Library Journal's take on it:

Wilson operates a similar business to EBSCO offering abstract/index records and fulltext databases via its proprietary platform, Wilson Web, but it is a much smaller company with about 200 employees and sales that are less than 10 percent of EBSCO's.

Databases from Wilson will be integrated with EBSCOhost over the coming months, and, eventually, the WilsonWeb platform will be eliminated, the companies said in a press release. EBSCO will maintain WilsonWeb until all Wilson databases are available on EBSCOhost and customers have been transitioned to EBSCOhost.

(read the rest of the article here).

Steve Lawson, Humanities Liaison Librarian for Tutt Library at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, has a slightly more sarcastic take on the "merger" in his blog, See Also...

Personally, I don't get the depth of the issue, but it seems to be BIG in the library world!