Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that University of Liverpool has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery solution. The university was looking to offer a search tool that would take its users from their initial search to relevant results via a single search box.
The library had been relying on a federated search option but was looking for a more complete solution that would provide access to local resources, including the ability to cross-search locally-owned resources with licensed resources while also including Institutional Repository content in general search results. In introducing a discovery service, the library was looking to cater to a wide spectrum of users from novices to more advanced users.
Liverpool will use EDS as the main search box on its home page along with an upgraded OPAC. The library will use the multiple profile option in EBSCO Discovery Service to provide comprehensive coverage for given subjects. With EDS, subject librarians can tweak the look and feel and provide customisable search and display options to suit 'their' clientele. Subject-specific LibGuides will be implemented at the University of Liverpool along with profile-specific EDS search boxes serving as anchors to more specific lists of subject resources. The library will also use EBSCOhost Integrated Search to add resources that cannot be locally-indexed into the discovery results.
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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