Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that New Zealand's Massey University Library has chosen its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The library's evaluation found EBSCO Discovery Service had superior relevancy ranking, which will help the university better serve its patrons. Librarians expect EDS to improve access to full-text resources and increase the exposure of both print and electronic materials to library users.
Massey's Information Services team found that EBSCO Discovery Service provided the best access to full text from a single search box, while reducing the need for searching multiple databases. The Information Services team at Massey University Library anticipate that EDS will improve access to library resources as well as consolidate searches.
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 approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
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