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EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery ServiceEBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions

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Business details

Founded
1944
Sells to
Businesses
Kind of seller
Sells its own goods or services
Licensed trade
No licence normally needed
Domain age
36 years
Address
10 Estes Street Ipswich, MA 01938
Email address
Not found
Phone number
+1 978-356-6500
Contact page
ebsco.com/contact
Website
ebsco.com
Social media
Not found

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating
App Store· Read 12 November 2026· 78 ratings· 3.6 out of 5 stars
Total783.6 out of 5 stars
Customer satisfactionInsufficient evidence· No reviews found
App experienceMixed· Low confidence· From 78 ratings on the App Store

Summary

Is ebsco.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 85 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 not found, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: mixed, low confidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 36 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles or an email address.

Positives

  1. We read 4 of its pages · contact, about, terms and privacy.
  2. Its website address was registered 36 years ago.
  3. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

  1. Social presence information was not found from our checks.
  2. Email address information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions
— EBSCO, in their own words
About them
Best for
“Designed for business researchers, this database provides users with 3,600+ active full-text journals and trade periodicals, as well as company profiles, country reports, industry reports, business videos, and other sources.”
SourcesIts homepage

How to check if ebsco.com is legit

To check if ebsco.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about ebsco.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsBased in the US; founded in 1944 (Wikipedia)
Country
Where the company is based
US
Why we believe that
the site's structured data states its country, its terms are governed by the laws of United States, its phone number starts +1, its postcode is a US zip code
From Wikipedia
Industry
information services
Founded
1944
SourcesWikipedia
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 36 years ago
  • Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
Domain age
36 years
Domain transfer lock enabled
Yes
SourcesICANN Lookup
Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy
HTTPS enabled
Yes
Contact phone number found
+1 978-356-6500
Contact page found
Yes
Hosting company
Amazon.com, Inc.
What its pages say
In their own words
“Solutions For Academic Libraries Provide essential research databases, e-journals, and e-books to researchers. Public Libraries Help build and manage collections, meet consumers' information needs, promote lifelong learning and transform lives. Schools Provide reliable resources and technology to support student research, curriculum delivery and information literacy skills development.”
SourcesHomepageContact pageAbout pageTerms pagePrivacy page
Search engines and AILets in search engines and AI answers; blocks 6 of 7 AI training tools

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search
Allowed by nameGooglebot
Bing
Allowed by nameBingbot
AI training

6 of 7 blocked

OpenAI
Blocked by its robots.txtGPTBot
Anthropic
Blocked by its robots.txtClaudeBot
Google AI
Blocked by its robots.txtGoogle-Extended
Apple AI
Allowed by nameApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl
Blocked by its robots.txtCCBot
Meta
Blocked by its robots.txtmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok)
Blocked by its robots.txtBytespider
AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search
Allowed by nameOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT
Allowed by nameChatGPT-User
Claude search
Allowed by nameClaude-SearchBot
Claude
Allowed by nameClaude-User
Perplexity
Allowed by namePerplexityBot
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-IA
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: Google Favicon
User-agent: Google Images
User-agent: Google Scholar
User-agent: Google Videos
User-agent: Google-Web-Preview
User-agent: Feedfetcher-Google
User-agent: Google-Agent
User-agent: Google-CWS
User-agent: Google-GeminiNotebook
User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
User-agent: GoogleMessages
User-agent: Google-Pinpoint
User-agent: GoogleProducer
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
User-agent: google-speakr
User-agent: Google-Site-Verification
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: AdIdxBot
User-agent: Alexa Archive
User-agent: alexa site audit
User-agent: AlexandriaOrgBot
User-agent: Algolia
User-agent: Algolia Crawler
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: AppEngine
User-agent: Atom Feed Robot
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-render
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: cludo.com bot
User-agent: coccoc
Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsWe found no page for it on any review website, such as Trustpilot
App StoreIts app, EBSCO Mobile, is on Apple's App Store, rated 3.6 out of 5 from 78 ratings, counted in the reviews total.
App
EBSCO Mobile
App Store page
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ebsco-mobile/id1473281170
App Store rating
3.6 out of 5
App Store ratings
78
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
  • Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
  • It is among the 10,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
Monthly visitor data
Popularity among Chrome users
top 50,000 sites
First known user traffic
Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24
24
Traffic pattern
sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months
none
Rank drop in the last 12 months
none
Cloudflare Radar
Popularity across the internet
top 10,000 sites
Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up ebsco.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

United Arab Emirates under 0.1%Armenia 0.1%Argentina 0.5%Austria under 0.1%Australia 0.6%Azerbaijan under 0.1%Bosnia and Herzegovina under 0.1%Bangladesh 1.3%Burkina Faso under 0.1%Bulgaria 0.4%Bolivia under 0.1%Brazil 2.4%Canada 0.2%Switzerland under 0.1%Chile 0.1%Colombia 0.3%Czechia 0.6%Germany 1.5%Denmark under 0.1%Dominican Republic 0.1%Algeria under 0.1%Ecuador 0.1%Spain 0.6%Ethiopia under 0.1%Finland 0.1%France 49.9%Gabon under 0.1%United Kingdom 1.3%Georgia under 0.1%Ghana under 0.1%Greece 0.1%Guyana under 0.1%Honduras under 0.1%Croatia under 0.1%Hungary under 0.1%Indonesia 1.0%Ireland under 0.1%Israel under 0.1%India 0.4%Iran under 0.1%Iceland under 0.1%Italy 0.3%Jordan 0.1%Japan 0.4%Kenya 0.1%Kyrgyzstan under 0.1%Cambodia under 0.1%South Korea under 0.1%Kuwait under 0.1%Kazakhstan under 0.1%Lebanon under 0.1%Lithuania under 0.1%Luxembourg under 0.1%Latvia under 0.1%Libya under 0.1%Moldova under 0.1%Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of under 0.1%Mali under 0.1%Mexico 0.3%Malaysia 0.2%Nigeria under 0.1%Netherlands 0.7%Norway 0.2%Peru under 0.1%Philippines 0.3%Pakistan under 0.1%Poland 1.8%Puerto Rico under 0.1%Portugal 0.2%Paraguay under 0.1%Qatar under 0.1%Romania 0.6%Serbia 0.2%Russia 1.2%Saudi Arabia 0.1%Sweden 0.1%Slovenia under 0.1%Slovakia under 0.1%Swaziland under 0.1%Thailand 0.8%Tajikistan 0.1%Turkey 0.1%Taiwan 0.2%Ukraine 0.6%Uganda under 0.1%United States 20.2%Uzbekistan under 0.1%Venezuela under 0.1%Vietnam 0.3%Kosovo under 0.1%South Africa 2.1%Zimbabwe under 0.1%Singapore 3.6%Hong Kong 1.0%Aruba under 0.1%Andorra under 0.1%Maldives under 0.1%Dominica under 0.1%Bahrain under 0.1%Palestine under 0.1%
  • Over 50%
  • 5 to 50%
  • 1 to 5%
  • 0.2 to 1%
  • Under 0.2%
  • None seen
  1. 1France49.9%
  2. 2United States20.2%
  3. 3Singapore3.6%
  4. 4Brazil2.4%
  5. 5South Africa2.1%
  6. 6Poland1.8%
  7. 7Germany1.5%
  8. 8United Kingdom1.3%
  9. 9Bangladesh1.3%
  10. 10Russia1.2%

Top 10 of 100 countries.

SourcesChrome UX ReportCloudflare Radar
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 30 years ago
Website archive history
30 years
SourcesFirst archived copy
Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
Says it does not sell your personal data.
“To the extent we collect any information of minors under 18 years of age that is considered personal information under any applicable law, we do not and will not sell such information without verified written parental consent and have not sold such information during the preceding 12 months or at any other time.”
Collects where you are.
“It is in this context that we may provide advertising networks, data analytics providers, social networks, and video sharing platforms with Personal Information such as your IP address, device information, Internet and other electronic network activity information, and geolocation information in the last twelve months.”
May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.
“The right to know when you are subject to automated decision-making, the Personal Information used to render the decision, the principal factors and parameters involved in the decision, and human review or correction of the decision (or its underlying data, where appropriate).”
Says you can ask it to delete your data.
“The right to delete your Personal Information that we have collected or obtained, subject to certain exceptions.”
SourceIts privacy policy
Tracking tools on its homepageNone named in its code

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Uses Osano to ask which cookies you allow.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
Malware or phishing threat status
None found
SourcesGoogle Web Risk
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
Known data breaches found
0
SourcesHave I Been Pwned
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked
Email
MX records
Yes
SPF record
Yes
DKIM key
Yes
DMARC record
Yes
DMARC policy
reject
Certificate
Security certificate browsers warn about
No
Certificate issuer
GoDaddy.com
Certificate type
DV
Certificate expires
6 Mar 2027
Hosting
Nameservers
ns-1037.awsdns-01.org
ns-1935.awsdns-49.co.uk
ns-240.awsdns-30.com
ns-703.awsdns-23.net
Address
52.84.118.35
52.84.118.43
52.84.118.68
52.84.118.73
SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
What we check
A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check
On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points
0 of 3 added
Sourceebsco.com's DNS records
Run ebsco.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
What we check
That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check
When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points
0 of 1 added
SourceTruth Signal's own records
Run ebsco.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
What we check
That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check
On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points
0 of 1 added
Sourceebsco.com/robots.txt
Run ebsco.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Points added to its truth score0 of 5
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