Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced a partnership with information services company Baker & Taylor, Inc., US. The new partnership will make rich book and multimedia data from Baker & Taylor available as part of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).
EBSCO’s discovery solution is designed to provide a single entry point and fast access to a library's entire collection - including local loading of the OPAC. The service seeks to create a unified, customised index of an institution's information resources and provides access via a single search box. Metadata is harvested from both internal (library) and external (vendors) sources, creating a pre-indexed service of significant size and speed.
EBSCO Discovery Service conducts real-time availability checks, so that patrons have up-to-the-minute status and availability of catalogue items. Customers who wish to further enhance applicable records within the EDS experience can elect to include additional data from Baker & Taylor, including subject descriptors, professionally-written summaries, book excerpts (first chapters), author biographies, awards information, review citations, additional bibliographies, options for a results limiting to include Baker & Taylor data and ability to include patron-driven wish lists/purchase options (if desired by library)
EDS is part of EBSCO's Complete Discovery Solution combining the core discovery layer/index with the federated search capabilities of EBSCOhost Integrated Search and the familiar, powerful EBSCOhost search experience. The content partnership with Baker & Taylor is the latest addition to the growing service. Baker & Taylor joins NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press and many others who have partnered with EBSCO for the service.
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