Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Seton Hall University in New Jersey has started to implement its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to provide users with better, faster and more convenient access to their library resources. Seton Hall chose EDS for its superior index, facet features and ability to seamlessly integrate the catalogue.
The library was particularly impressed with EDS’s facet feature which helps users refine their search. Facets (also known as clusters) appear in the left column of the EDS result list and can be used to limit the results that appear. The library is in the process of integrating the institutional repository into EDS. The repository can then be fully searched alongside all other EDS resources/content.
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 Base Index for EBSCO Discovery Service 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 about 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers.
