Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Okanagan College in British Columbia, Canada, has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery service.
After looking at other services, librarians selected EDS for its simple search process, rich metadata and subject headings. EDS was also chosen to attract users to the library's resources and increase the use of those resources while also highlighting the value the library offers through the customisation options EDS offers.
EBSCO Discovery Service provides users with many options for an enhanced search experience. Result list limiters and facets help to consolidate user refinement actions and provide options for basic and advanced users alike.
EBSCO Discovery Service offers libraries a variety of customisation options. Okanagan College has integrated a chat box, customised the toolbar and the EDS footer and changed the colour scheme. Additionally, librarians plan to incorporate custom links and widgets to ensure users can get help when they need it.
EBSCO Discovery Service creates 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. The Base Index for EBSCO Discovery Service forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalogue, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes.
The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world's foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
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