Library resources provider EBSCO, US, has announced that BioOne Online Journals will be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). According to the company, EDS users can search more than 100,000 scholarly articles from bioscience research and the addition of this resource adds to STM content available to EDS users.
BioOne aggregates publications in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. The collection of high-impact bioscience research journals stems from societies, libraries, academe and the private sector – reportedly making it an ideal resource for students and researchers. BioOne's collaboration of publications includes 176 titles from 132 publishers, featuring content on an array of pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research and ecological & biodiversity conservation.
EDS customers may use a CustomLink to access full text on the BioOne site. CustomLinks are a feature that dynamically create links from a result to related information on another web site and form one of many linking options for EDS customers to extend the reach of discovery.
BioOne is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world's largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, Nature Publishing, IEEE and ACM. Partners also include content providers such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book, ABC-CLIO and the Hathi Trust.
EBSCO Discovery Service seeks to create 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. According to the company, it is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries, and an obvious partner for content providers.
