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# ebsco.com

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## Website

ebsco.com

EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service 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

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:17 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 85 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

85 / 100

High truth signals

Top 10% of businesses we’ve checked

## 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](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=10%20Estes%20Street%20Ipswich%2C%20MA%2001938)

Email address: Not found

Phone number: [+1 978-356-6500](tel:+1%20978-356-6500)

Contact page: [ebsco.com/contact](https://ebsco.com/contact)

Website: [ebsco.com](https://ebsco.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: Not found

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

Site Reviews Rating

[App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ebsco-mobile/id1473281170) · Read 12 November 2026 · 78 ratings · 3.6 out of 5 stars

Total 78 3.6 out of 5 stars

Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found

App experience Mixed · 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

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

### Not found

- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- 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.”

Sources [Its homepage](https://www.ebsco.com/)

### 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](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details Based 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

Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBSCO_Information_Services)

Domain registration Its 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

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=ebsco.com)

Website details We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: [+1 978-356-6500](tel:+19783566500)

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.”

Sources [Homepage](https://ebsco.com/) [Contact page](https://ebsco.com/contact) [About page](https://ebsco.com/about/mission) [Terms page](https://ebsco.com/terms-of-use) [Privacy page](https://ebsco.com/privacy-policy)

Search engines and AI Lets 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 name Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by name Bingbot

AI training

6 of 7 blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its robots.txt GPTBot

Anthropic: Blocked by its robots.txt ClaudeBot

Google AI: Blocked by its robots.txt Google-Extended

Apple AI: Allowed by name Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Blocked by its robots.txt CCBot

Meta: Blocked by its robots.txt meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its robots.txt Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by name OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by name ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by name Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by name Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed by name PerplexityBot

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

Sources [robots.txt](https://ebsco.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints We found no page for it on any review website, such as Trustpilot

App Store Its 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](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ebsco-mobile/id1473281170)

App Store rating: 3.6 out of 5

App Store ratings: 78

Visitor traffic Real 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.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 France 49.9%
- 2 United States 20.2%
- 3 Singapore 3.6%
- 4 Brazil 2.4%
- 5 South Africa 2.1%
- 6 Poland 1.8%
- 7 Germany 1.5%
- 8 United Kingdom 1.3%
- 9 Bangladesh 1.3%
- 10 Russia 1.2%

Top 10 of 100 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/ebsco.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 30 years ago

Website archive history: 30 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19961103/ebsco.com)

Social presence We 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 says We 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.”

Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.ebsco.com/privacy-policy)

Tracking tools on its homepage None 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.

Source [Its homepage](https://ebsco.com/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This 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

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its 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

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=ebsco.com&rr_type=TXT)

### 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 record Not 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

Source ebsco.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not 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

Source Truth 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](https://truthsignal.com/claim/ebsco.com)

Lets our checker read it Not 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

Source ebsco.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](https://truthsignal.com/claim/ebsco.com)

Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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### Change over time

- Truth score
- Social Followers
- Data points

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 85, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/ebsco.com/report/2026-11.md

## How the customers' Total rating is worked out

Bayesian average: 7 reviews at 3.5 stars added, so a few reviews move it less. The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures:

(7 × 3.5 + 3.6 × 78 (App Store)) ÷ (7 + 78) = 3.6, to one decimal place

## Cite

Truth Signal, EBSCO: truth score 85 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/ebsco.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/ebsco.com.json
