Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the
Korea University Library has selected the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery solution. Korea University Library is the first academic library to adopt EDS in Korea.
Librarians and e-resource administrators at Korea University have always sought ways to enhance research information searching and provide full-text resources by balancing electronic resource service expansion with an enhanced user experience. While the majority of the researchers were accustomed to various search interfaces and portal sites through Web searching, libraries had been forced to provide limited research information service through traditional ILS. As the result, librarians at Korea University were finding that users no longer relied on the library for their research needs, turning instead to various search engines and social networking tools. Therefore, Korea University Library wanted a discovery service that could support the changing information universe. Librarians at Korea University saw EBSCO Discovery Service as a perfect solution that satisfies the expectations of the new generation of users and researches.
After being selected as one of the first Asia regional beta testing partners of EDS in April 2010, Korea University Library uploaded its local library catalogue data and then loaded its domestic Korean language full-text academic research database in order to provide a fully operational discovery option in 2011. Korea University Library believes that EDS will provide a new era of academic research as an information service. The discovery service provided by EDS will be called K-eArticle.
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.
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