Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that metadata from ECONIS - the online catalogue for the German National Library of Economics - will now be searchable through the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The German National Library of Economics - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world's largest library for economics and ECONIS claims to be one of the world's largest databases dedicated to economics.
ECONIS includes title records for indexed economics literature from all over the world - economic literature and subject specific information procured by the German National Library of Economics. It contains more than five million titles. The online catalogue includes records for business studies, economics and practice-oriented economics literature and includes title records for books and journals, working papers, dissertations, statistics and much more.
The German National Library of Economics joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. These include the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect, the U.S. Government Printing Office and for mutual customers Web of Science and H.W. Wilson.
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 forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalogue, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes.
The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world's foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
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