Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that the National and University Library of Slovenia has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery tool. The library was looking to move beyond federated search and provide a single searching environment to bring together all of their library resources.
Established in 1774, The National and University Library claims to be one of the most important national educational and cultural institutions of Slovenia. Srecko Boncina Head of the Information Center at National and University Library credits the strong relationship with EBSCO coupled with the positive feedback from users in the decision to select EDS as the library's discovery tool.
National and University Library has an extensive array of EBSCO databases and is also using EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS). EHIS is a complement to EBSCO Discovery Service extending the discovery experience to external resources that are not made available for local harvesting.
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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