Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Persée content is now available via the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Persée is a programme which was created for the digital publication of scientific journals in the field of the humanities. The entire printed collection of journals is digitized and published online through a portal which offers access to the collections as well as advanced functionalities which facilitate and enhance use of the portal’s resources.
As a result of a recent agreement with Persée, EBSCO Discovery Service now indexes scientific French journals in the field of humanities. EDS offers metadata for all Persée content and searchable full-text for freely available content.
Content from Persée represents more than 390,000 articles from French journals covering the field of humanities. The journals are carefully selected by an editorial board, guaranteeing the collection’s scientific coherence.
Persée is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal and book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, 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 represents content from about 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
