Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with the National Library of the Czech Republic to bring metadata from the Manuscriptorium project to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The goal of the Manuscriptorium project is to create virtual research access to all digital documents related to historical book resources up to the year 1800.
Content includes manuscripts, incunabula, early print books, maps, deeds, charters and more. Metadata from the Manuscriptorium - the European Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage - will be available to all EDS users, further expanding the information available via EBSCO Discovery Service.
The Manuscriptorium project - including more than five million digital images - has created a single digital library database from the resources previously held in libraries throughout the European Union and beyond. While the primary focus of the project is on books, documents of an archival nature are also included. The Manuscriptorium provides researchers, students and teachers with information about the physical documents that are contained in the digital library via its catalogue as well as access to digital copies of the documents themselves.
The Manuscriptorium joins a long list of key information sources available to EBSCO Discovery Service users including: British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect, Government Printing Office, ECONIS, Mergent Inc., arXiv, Credo Reference, IGI Global, World Book and Accessible Archives. In addition, Web of Science and H.W. Wilson provides access for mutual customers.
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 about 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
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