Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), the National Library of France, has selected the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its library discovery solution.
BNF had been looking to modernise its aging information system and librarians were impressed with the impact EDS could have on the library - particularly the depth and breadth of coverage in the Base Index of EDS. Before looking at EDS, librarians had been unfamiliar with this type of comprehensive index. Demonstrations by EBSCO's sales team made it clear that an index the size of EDS's would be capable of pulling together content that might otherwise go undiscovered.
Future plans include the integration of EDS with the BNF OPAC to further expand the integrated one-stop search experience for users. EDS customers build upon the base index by adding metadata representing their own unique collections including their catalogue (OPAC), databases, archival collections - using EDS as the base of an institution-specific discovery experience.
BNF also plans to take advantage of the number of customisability options available within EDS to include value-added features to further create a unique discovery solution for the National Library of France. BNF is currently planning to create LibGuide widgets on the result list and to customise the EDS interface colours.
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. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any library's collection.
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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