Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, recently announced an agreement with content partner Digitalia to enable Spanish content, serving a vast range of interest and needs, to be discoverable within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Digitalia is a global leader in quality content with thousands of e-books from the most renowned Spanish and Latin American Publishing Houses, as well as relevant Spanish journals that cover all topics of interest.
Founded in 2007, Digitalia content includes selected Spanish titles designed to support the needs of libraries, academic institutions and students. Digitalia’s collection includes over 8,000 Spanish Language digitised books and journals encompassing a broad spectrum topics including architecture; economics and business; engineering and technology; languages, linguistics and philosophy; science; social and behavioral sciences; and more.
The agreement between EBSCO and Digitalia enables EDS users to search the full text of Digitalia’s content creating an easy way for users to find and utilise the extensive Spanish content.
Digitalia 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, and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.
The EDS Base Index represents content from about 20,000 providers (and growing), which accounts for more than 350,000 publications from the world’s top publishers and information providers. However, because EDS is a custom solution, the complete index to materials for any given customer may be expanded greatly beyond the coverage referenced for the Base Index.
In terms of depth of coverage for publications in the EBSCO Discovery Service Base Index, content extends back to the 15th century, and in some cases, even earlier. The inclusion of custom catalogues, repositories and other resources may certainly further extend the dates of archival coverage for a given institution.
