EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that Universidad del Desarrollo, a university in Chile known for its academic excellence, has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) to provide an easy to use and powerful discovery tool that will search its entire collection and deliver relevant results.
Universidad del Desarrollo began their discovery tool evaluation with a few key factors in mind including a discovery solution that offered results that were germane to their search. According to Paola M. Massaro, Library Systems Director at Universidad del Desarrollo, the university chose EBSCO Discovery Service because it offers a strong relevancy ranking system. Delivering relevant results enables students to have a successful user experience.
EBSCO Discovery Service has incorporated a strong relevancy-ranking system so that users not only find relevant results, but also the best possible results - right on the first page of the result list. When it comes to relevancy methodology, while access to full text is important, the superior-quality results for a search come through high-end indexing and subject headings applied through controlled vocabularies. EDS is different from other discovery services because it seeks to enhance the indexing of journals & magazines to better inform the relevancy process—a distinction of ‘quality’ vs. ‘quantity.’
The easy integration of resources was also a contributing factor for Universidad del Desarrollo. To heighten the visibility of and institution’s catalogue, EBSCO offers the loading of the institution’s complete catalogue so that it can be searched alongside all other EDS content as part of the unified search experience.
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.
