Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), US, has announced that collections from Al Manhal, the largest provider of electronic resources in the Arab world, will now be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement between EBSCO and Al Manhal will allow metadata for their eBook, eJournals, eReports and eDissertation collections to be added to EDS.
Al Manhal’s eBook Collection includes an exclusive collection of Arabic books available in 10 main subject areas: political science & international relations, business & economics, social sciences, law, language & literature, history, geography & biography, Islamic jurisprudence, Islam & other disciplines, specialised Islamic sciences and educational sciences.
The eJournal database from Al Manhal will also be added to the comprehensive collection of content in EDS and provide users with influential journals from leading universities, research institutes and scientific societies in the Arab world. The eJournal content covers humanities and social sciences as well as topics in the science, technical and medical fields. Al Manhal eReports databases include daily aggregated news of the latest regional issues in addition to more in-depth analyses of political, economic and security events in the region, delivered weekly and monthly. eDisserations are written by Arabic students and go through an evaluation process by leading experts before they are published.
Al Manhal 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 leading scholarly journal and book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, Nature Publishing, IEEE, ACM and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book, ABC-CLIO, The HathiTrust and many others.
EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC - which is not typical in the discovery space.
