Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with World Book, Inc. (World Book) to bring twelve popular reference tools into EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, for World Book resources will be added to the EDS Base Index allowing the World Book content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface. The twelve World Book resources that will be searchable in EDS include popular English language titles as well as French and Spanish language reference tools.
World Book joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Web of Science and H.W. Wilson provide access for mutual customers. Additional information sources available to EBSCO Discovery Service users include the British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect, Government Printing Office, ECONIS, Mergent Inc., arXiv, Credo Reference and IGI Global.
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. As the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC - which is not typical in the discovery space.
