Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and JSTOR have announced an agreement to load metadata from the more than 1000 academic journals on JSTOR to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The addition of JSTOR metadata to the EDS Base Index extends the search experience and further enhances the quality of metadata available to EDS customers.
Content on JSTOR, a not-for-profit platform, spans over 1000 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Additional collections include primary source content complementary to the academic journals and monographs.
JSTOR joins a long list of platforms, publishers, and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to scholarly content. These include the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect, Government Printing Office and for mutual customers Web of Science & H.W. Wilson.
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 EDS Base Index 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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