Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that the Universita La Sapienza in Italy has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Universita La Sapienza University claims to be one of the largest universities in Europe. EDS will play a major role in consolidating its many resources while providing comprehensive and relevant results.
After evaluating other discovery services, Universita La Sapienza concluded that EDS’s deep and powerful search better suited its users. EDS combines an institution’s entire collection with its extensive Base Index that yields a comprehensive return of content. The strong relevancy-ranking system from EDS ensures that users not only find relevant result lists but also the best results on the first page.
In order to help support many of its off-campus students, the University will utilise the personal account functionalities in EDS such as authenticating through email address credentials. Students will be able to utilise other intuitive features including search history strings, save/share searches, personalised and shared folders, RSS feeds and email alerts.
Universita La Sapienza plans to add its institutional repository including Ph.D. theses and will take advantage of customisation features including utilising graphic options to adhere to the University’s website and custom naming the discovery tool.
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. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any library's collection.
