Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the Jefferson State Community College in Alabama has chosen its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The college is the first community college in the state to implement EDS.
When looking to implement a discovery service, Jefferson State Community College librarians were confident in EBSCO's ability to deliver an easy yet powerful means of accessing content from a single search box. EDS offers many different levels of interface customisation enabling the EDS experience to truly be unique for each institution. This feature was also a key factor for the selection of EDS.
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 Base Index for EBSCO Discovery Service 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 about 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
