Database and e-books aggregator EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset is now available via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). EBSCO Discovery Service users will now be able to search millions of Harvard Library catalogue records in the Base Index of EDS. The addition of these resources from Harvard Library adds to the rapidly growing content available to EDS users.
Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset contains 12 million open-access catalogue records from Harvard’s 73 libraries. The metadata in the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset has been created, acquired and modified over decades and includes bibliographic information for books, videos, audio, images, manuscripts and maps. These unique records consist of information describing works—including creator, title, publisher, date, language, and subject headings—as well as other descriptors usually not available to end users.
Harvard’s collection is now visible to users of EDS along with a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content.
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 represents content from about 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers, representing far more content providers and publishers than any other discovery service.
