Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Bournemouth University has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery solution, bringing a single search box to the library collection. Bournemouth selected EDS after a detailed review of the service, determining that it met the university's long term plan for a single source for the discovery of all library resources.
The university will maintain mySearch, the name of its outgoing federated search service for the new discovery tool. mySearch will serve as an important part of the library website bringing library content into the virtual learning environment (VLE) via direct links to EDS and quick search boxes. The library's chat widget will also be added to EBSCO Discovery Service.
Bournemouth will add more resources to the result list by pairing EDS with the optional EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS). EHIS is a complement to EBSCO Discovery Service extending the discovery experience to external resources that are not made available for local harvesting. Bournemouth also has more than 20 databases on EBSCOhost and uses EBSCO A-to-Z and LinkSource in addition to using EBSCO Information Services as its subscription agent.
EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customised index of an institution's information resources and provides access via a single search box. The Base Index for EDS 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 about 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
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