Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the amount of news content in its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) has grown to more than 100 million articles since January 2010 from its partnership with Newsbank alone. Additional news content sources and the addition of more than 10,000 articles each day means a rapidly expanding news content collection that is seen to bring added value to EDS users. EDS is focused on bringing journal and book coverage to library users.
Newspaper coverage dominates other discovery services by as much as by 75 percent of the total records. However, it is the scholarly content with robust metadata and full-text searching of journals and books that have been the focus of EDS. The ability for researchers to now find rich newspaper content alongside scholarly journal articles in EDS is projected to provide an ideal balance. Additionally, EDS' powerful user experience allows end users to quickly limit to the appropriate type of content they are most interested in, according to EBSCO.
EDS seeks to create a unified, customised index of an institution's information resources and provide access via 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 catalogue, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes.
The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from various global information providers. At present, the index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
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