Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, recently announced an agreement with ingentaconnect to further expand the resources discoverable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and bring added value to its users. The agreement allows selected scholarly journals from ingentaconnect to be indexed in EDS.
Resources from ingentaconnect to be added to the EDS Base Index include more than 5,200 scholarly academic journals from over 200 publishers. The addition of these resources marks a trend of rapidly growing content available to EDS users.
ingentaconnect joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. This includes the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Web of Science (for mutual customers), H.W. Wilson (for mutual customers), Oxford University Press, ABC-CLIO and American Psychological Association.
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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