Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Mississippi State University has chosen its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery tool. The university library was looking to bring all of its resources together under a single search box. 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.
Mississippi State University wanted a discovery tool that would integrate its databases as well as its online catalogue and digital collections. In selecting EDS, the university is now able to provide students with this expanded capability while using the familiar EBSCOhost interface. By leveraging the EBSCOhost interface as a discovery interface, libraries are able to offer the access to their collection through a familiar starting point, thereby eliminating the need to retrain users or introduce multiple new platforms.
The initial release at Mississippi State University will allow students to discover the content found in the library's online database collection and its online catalogue. Future plans include adding the university's digital collections.
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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