Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing has announced that HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to provide easier access and increased usage of the institution's resources.
With a selection of almost every type of professional course, HAN University sought a discovery solution that provided excellent coverage in many areas. According to HAN University's Coordinator of the Digital Study Center, Maarten Hekman, their decision to go with EDS was strongly influenced by the fact that EDS delivered the content and breadth of coverage they needed.
HAN University took advantage of customisations to make EDS its own. They have branded the discovery service, HANQuest, and created 19 different profiles to accommodate the needs of their users. Hekman was particularly pleased that they could set up widgets for the website of the HAN Study Centres in three different languages (Dutch, English and German) each linking directly to EDS in the corresponding language.
HAN University is one of many institutions worldwide that were influenced by the content coverage in EDS. The Base Index in EDS represents content from about 20,000 providers and includes partners from the world's largest scholarly journal and book publishers. EDS draws upon EBSCO's extensive publisher relationships to feature a far more robust collection of rich metadata for most indexed content, ensuring that users can obtain the most relevant search results for their queries.
EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized 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.
