Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) customers will now have access to content from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - expanding the list of information accessible from within the discovery service.
As a result of a recent agreement with NBER, EBSCO Discovery Service now indexes more than 20,000 working papers, conference papers and monographs published by the NBER since 1920. NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organisation dedicated to promoting greater understanding of how the economy works. Content in NBER is developed with a focus on four types of empirical research - developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behaviour, assessing the economic effects of public policies, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.
Content from NBER teamed with other comprehensive collections of metadata from the best content sources make EDS one of the most comprehensive services for searching the complete full text of journal articles and other sources. NBER joins Baker & Taylor, the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents File (ETOC), NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Web of Science (for mutual customers) and many others.
EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized 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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