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EBSCO, ProQuest, OCLC included for eighth consecutive year
Companies judged according to content and management

EBSCO, ProQuest, OCLC, and a cadre of other vendors serving the library market were listed on EContent magazine’s annual compilation of 100 “Companies That Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry.” Contending companies were judged by content and its management and other criteria and divided into categories (Classification & Taxonomy, Content Commerce, Content Delivery, etc.).

This year marks EBSCO’s eighth consecutive inclusion on the list, which launched in 2001. EContent editor-in-chief Michele Manafy said that “having earned a position on each of the eight EContent 100 lists, EBSCO demonstrates its long-term leadership of the digital information industry.” Similar sentiments could be extended to ProQuest and OCLC, also veterans who’ve placed consistently in the top 100 since the list's inception. Others in the library realm that made the grade are Ingram Digital, O’Reilly Media, Reed Elsevier, Springer Science, and Swets.

Winners were selected by a panel of 12 judges, including former LITA president Walt Crawford.