1science, a provider of software tools and analytics to accelerate the transition to open access, and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) have announced their partnership to provide academic libraries access to a vast number of openly accessible scholarly articles when performing a search in EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS).
This is a natural partnership as both parties understand that academic institutions spend time and resources investing in discovery systems while aiming to increase their content, and provide to their users open access articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
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. According to EBSCO Vice President of SaaS Strategy Tamir Borensztajn, this partnership will improve discoverability of content in open access journals.
1science offers an integrated solution that helps academic libraries increase the uptake of open access articles, the majority of which are from sources other than gold open access journals. With tools to bring open access to the fore, academic libraries can overcome their budget limitations with optimized subscriptions management and increase the visibility of their universities' scholarly production. Now available through EDS, oaFindr allows library patrons to consistently find and directly download with one click, a rapidly growing number of green, hybrid and gold open access articles published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
Common 1science and EBSCO clients who will soon start benefitting from this partnership are The California Institute of Technology, The University of San Francisco, California State University, Northridge, and Trinity University.
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