Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) have announced a new agreement to facilitate the cost-effective provision of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to RLUK members. RLUK is a consortium of 29 of the largest research organisations in the UK and Ireland, including the three UK national libraries.
The RLUK aims to ensure that the UK has the best research library support in the world and works to make actual its vision of the modern research library. With EDS, the consortium seeks to provide a consistent search experience for its vast research community and to allow the variety of rich resources that are available in the library collections of it member libraries to be easily searchable.
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 catalogue, 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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