EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the University Library of Pécs in Hungary has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) as its library discovery tool to help promote usage of key library resources. The EDS unified index, ability to search all library records and highly relevant results were main factors in the university's decision to implement the service.
The university subscribes to more than 20 databases and e-book collections as well as hundreds of e-journals that are integral to its students' research. Dr. Ágnes Fischer-Dárdai, University Library of Pecs Director General, and Reka Bartha, E-Resources Manager, say they chose EDS to help increase usage of these resources, noting that the superior relevance ranking of EDS helps users better access useful content in a single search.
Another reason for choosing EDS was its unified index of metadata from the university's internal and external resources. According to Bartha, this index allows users to more easily search the library's entire collection than was possible with the federated search tool it previously utilized.
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.
