Hi Joanne,

I know that the content in AGELINE is unique and valuable, so I did a
little more digging to see if alternative resources  could make up for
the missing free data file.   I found a web site by Valery King at
Oregon State in which she writes:  A library with PsycINFO,
Sociological Abstracts and MEDLINE may in fact provide enough coverage
of gerontology to satisfy most researchers.  (accessed 1/5/10 at
http://udlibsearch.lib.udel.edu/anss/ageline.html).

Last month we discovered that AARP’s AGELINE is no longer free.
After some digging, I found out it was purchased by EBSCO over the
summer.

Sincerely,

Liz Lorbeer
Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Joanne Romano
<joanne.romano@exch.library.tmc.edu> wrote:
> Our Library has just discovered that Age Line is no longer an open access
> database offered free from AARP;  it is now owned by Ebsco..When I recently
> tried to access, here is the error message I received:
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> Please note: AgeLine is now the property of EBSCO Publishing, Inc. and is no
> longer available free of charge from AARP.org.
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> If you wish to learn more about AgeLine on EBSCOhost, please visit EBSCO
> Publishing.
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> I was wondering if anyone knew when this Ebsco purchase took place...
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> Regards,
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> Joanne
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