EBSCO has released a tool, EBSCO SmartLinks+, designed to help librarians expose more content and make searches more relevant within their library’s collection.
SmartLinks+ utilises a knowledge base of more than 23 million article links from more than 15,000 journals, dynamically inserting the appropriate links to full text directly into EBSCOhost search results. EBSCO has developed an advanced rights-and-identity engine that triangulates the availability, ownership, and location of full text — providing the pre-validated links that appear for articles in the e-packages and e-journals to which a library subscribes through EBSCO. With this vast amount of continuously updated article-level metadata, librarians ensure that their users have seamless access to their library’s online subscriptions.
When a library subscribes to e-journals via EBSCO and one or more databases on the EBSCOhost Research Databases platform, SmartLinks+ can be automatically enabled. This makes librarians’ jobs easier and ensures that users can access all of the library’s full-text content. The unequaled linking provided through SmartLinks+, combined with the broad subject discipline coverage available in more than 350 EBSCOhost databases, creates an even more powerful tool for researchers. And when users are able to find full text easily within the library’s e-packages and e-journals, they are more likely to make library resources their first choice for research — significantly increasing the usage of the library’s content.
