Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has agreed to make its content available through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). EDS customers will now be able to search their institution's collection of OUP resources from the EDS single search box - expanding access to library collections and improving search results.
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Press publishes more than 6,000 new publications per year including scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals.
Resources that will be available through EDS include the Oxford Journals Collection and the Oxford Journals Archive. The Oxford Journals Collection contains more than 220 journals covering medicine, life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, humanities, law and social sciences. The Oxford Journals Archive comprises over 150 journals from 1849 to 1995 including content back to volume one, issue one. Oxford Scholarship Online and Oxford Handbooks Online will also be available.
Oxford University Press joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. These include Baker & Taylor, the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents File (ETOC), NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Web of Science (for mutual customers), H.W. Wilson and many others.
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 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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