Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that metadata from the U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) will soon be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). EDS Customers will be able to search for federal records from the Government Printing Office's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.
The U.S Government Printing Office provides publishing & dissemination services for the official & authentic government publications to Congress, federal agencies, federal depository libraries and the American public. The GPO joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. This includes the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect, Web of Science (for mutual customers) and H.W. Wilson (for mutual customers).
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 catalog, 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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