Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the National University has selected its EBSCO Discovery Service to provide the University with a way to deliver its large collection to the end user and to make its library resources easier to find. The National University is a private, nonprofit institution of higher education in California and the flagship university of the National University System.
National University researched a variety of options from next generation catalogues to resource portals as well as discovery services as it sought to improve access to the library's full-text resources. The university wanted a service that would provide users with more access to the library collection to better support research projects and assignments. Students were asking for a simple search experience that was closer to a traditional Web search. In deciding on EBSCO Discovery Service, the university was able to leverage its large eBook collection (more than 135,000 titles) and search the full-text of its collection alongside research databases and other library resources.
EDS will be part of a new library website design and a key component of a library initiative to serve students accessing the library via mobile devises. EDS will allow students to search the library without needing to know the names and descriptions of all the databases in the collection. The library is anticipating an increase in database usage since students will be searching across all resources and returning more relevant results from underused or previously hard to find resources.
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 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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