EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., the third largest private company in Birmingham, Alabama, with annual sales of nearly $2 billion according to the BBJ's 2013 Book of Lists. EBSCO offers library resources to customers in academic, medical, K12, public library, law, corporate, and government markets. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost, which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives. In 2010, EBSCO introduced its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines.

EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a family owned company since 1944. "EBSCO" is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Co. According to "Forbes Magazine", EBSCO is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama and one of the top 200 in the United States, based on revenues and employee numbers. Sales surpassed $1billion in 1997 and exceeded $2billion in 2006.

EBSCO Industries is a diverse company which includes over 40 businesses. EBSCO Publishing was established in 1984 as a print publication called "Popular Magazine Review", featuring article abstracts from more than 300 magazines. In 1987 the company was purchased by EBSCO Industries and its name was changed to EBSCO Publishing. It employed around 750 people by 2007. In 2003 it acquired Whitston Publishing, another database provider. In 2010 EBSCO purchased NetLibrary and in 2011, EBSCO Publishing took over H. W. Wilson Company. It merged with EBSCO Information Services on July 1, 2013. The merged business operates as EBSCO Information Services. , the President is Tim Collins.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Is the company family owned?
2. When was it started?
3. Where is the headquaters?
4. What does it offer?
5. What kind of resources are offered?
6. Are consumers charged for the services?
7. Is it a brick and mortar establishment or is it on the web?
8. What does the name stand for?
9. Is it a large company?
10. It's in the top how many in the US?
11. Is it diverse?
12. How many businesses are included?
13. When was the publishing division established?
14. Was EBSCO its original name?
15. What was it?
16. When did the name change?
17. When did the merger happen?
18. Who is the president?
19. How much income did the generate in 1997?
20. How long did it take to double that?

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. 1944
3. in Ipswich
4. library resources
5. EBSCONET and EBSCOhost
6. yes
7. it is online
8. it is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Co.
9. yes
10. the top three
11. yes
12. over 40
13. 1984
14. no
15. Popular Magazine Review
16. 1987
17. July 1, 2013
18. Tim Collins
19. over $1billion
20. 9 years