Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Grant MacEwan University (MacEwan) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its library discovery solution. As a long time EBSCO Publishing customer, MacEwan was confident that EBSCO's familiar interface and deep content coverage would provide a strong foundation upon which to launch its new discovery service.
The university is offering a number of resources in EDS via EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS), a complement to EBSCO Discovery Service which extends the discovery experience to external resources that are not made available for local harvesting. MacEwan is also taking advantage of a number of customisability options available within EDS to include value-added features such as widgets to Lib Guides, Meebo chat and RSS feeds.
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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