Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced an agreement with HathiTrust. The deal allows for full text searching of HathiTrust content within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), giving EDS users access to the entire array of HathiTrust's collection. This is seen to greatly expand their searches while maximising the library's collection.
HathiTrust includes the digitised collections of more than 50 major research institutions and libraries. The HathiTrust Digital Library combines the resources of the partner institutions in order to preserve these vast digital collections. A large portion of the digital library is made up of books that have been digitised in agreement with Google Books. Additional content includes digitised content from partners including university presses and individual library's collections.
The enormity of HathiTrust's digitised repository significantly is said to expand the search experience for discovery users. Although HathiTrust offers a standalone search service, through EDS, users will soon be able to search HathiTrust's collection of over 8.5 million digitalised volumes including over 9.5 million volumes covering more than 5 million book titles and 250,000 serial titles as part of EDS. Enabling the search of full text as part of EDS revitalises these records by bringing them to the forefront of the user's search experience and allows them to discover more of the library's collection.
HathiTrust is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are stated to be taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa and Sage Publications. Partners also include content providers such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book and ABC-CLIO.
The EDS Base Index represents content from about 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
EDS seeks to create a unified, customised index of an institution's information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box.
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