Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with IGI Global. Under the deal, IGI Global journals and reference books will now be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), a comprehensive discovery service from EBSCO. The deal will allow metadata for 131 journals and more than 1,500 reference books to be added to the Base Index of EDS.
IGI Global is an international publishing company specialising in scholarly research publications and databases covering all aspects of information science technology utilisation and management. The metadata from IGI Global is expected to greatly expand the international STM resources available to EDS users worldwide.
Metadata that will be available via EDS include IGI Global's peer reviewed journals -providing a focus on information/computer science & technology applied to business and public administration, engineering, education, medicine and healthcare and social sciences. The agreement also includes their diverse collection of reference books. The reference books will supply cutting-edge research in information science, business science, medical information science and engineering science from authors and editors from all over the world.
IGI Global joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. These include: the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, ArXiv, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect, Government Printing Office, JSTOR, ECONIS, Mergent and Credo Reference. For mutual customers, Web of Science and H.W. Wilson are part of a growing list of information sources available to EBSCO Discovery Service users.
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 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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