Online Databases- EBSCO Acquires Alt-Healthwatch

Although ProQuest bought most of the company, the SoftLine-developed Alt-HealthWatch product was acquired by EBSCO Publishing, marking the tenth full-text medical database EBSCO has added to its line in 2001. Alt-Healthwatch centers on "complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to healthcare and wellness." The database contains full-text articles from roughly 170 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, newsletters, pamphlets, and special reports. The database also indexes articles under more than 225 subject categories, 16 article types, and 11 publications types.