Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, recently announced an agreement with INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications. Mutual customers of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and the INTELECOM Online Resources Network will benefit from this deal.
The agreement adds metadata for all videos from INTELECOM’s academic video database to the Base Index of EDS and also allows mutual customers to access the full video database. With 3,500 video clips and growing, the INTELECOM Online Resources Network collections add a wealth of rich media to EBSCO Discovery Service.
The INTELECOM Online Resources Network is a hosted and supported digital repository and subscription database of academic video clips – closed captioned and streamed on demand – for use in support of online, hybrid and face-to-face classes.
The video collections offer academic students and teachers a comprehensive selection of video clips covering a range of key concepts and topics within an academic discipline. Core collections include anatomy and physiology; biological sciences; environmental studies; health; history; mathematics; oceanography; philosophy; political science; psychology; and sociology.
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications 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 leading scholarly journal and book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, Nature Publishing, IEEE, ACM and 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 Hathi Trust and many others.
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 represents content from about 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
