Fabio Di Bello
Regional Sales Manager
Italy & Israel
fdibello@ebscohost.com
‘Resource discovery’
EBSCO’s answer
…to create a unified index of an institution’s information resources…
1. We provide your library with a single (customised) search box
2. Partnered with content providers and publishers to (locally) index their metadata
3. EBSCOhost databases (indexing and full text searching)
4. Simultaneous searching of non-EBSCO databases (federated search)
5. Catalogue / IR is loaded directly into the EBSCO Discovery Service
6. Integration with AtoZ listing service and Open URL Link Resolver
“Bringing Google users to the library and the library to Google users”
Discovery Service Characteristics
• Fully hosted service
• No hardware or IT requirements
• Meta data populated from numerous different partners
• Sophisticated system architecture
• Triple redundancy network to ensure access 24/7
We provide your library with a single (customised) search box
Partnered with content providers and publishers to (locally) index their metadata
The most comprehensive list of
primary publisher partners of any discovery service
Author Supplied Abstracts and Author Supplied Keywords
from nearly all major journal publishers
• American Association for the
Advancement of Science
• American Statistical Association
• American Chemical Society
• American Institute of Physics
• Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM)
• American Mathematical Society
• Australian Academic Press
• American Medical Association
• Berkeley Electronic Press
• American Society for Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology
• BioMed Central
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• BMJ Publishing Group
• Annual Reviews, Inc.
• Blackwell Publishing Ltd
The most comprehensive list of
primary publisher partners of any discovery service
Author Supplied Abstracts and Author Supplied Keywords
from nearly all major journal publishers
• Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• Cell Press
• CSIRO Publishing
• Temple University Press
• EDP Sciences
• Elsevier Science
• Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• IOP Publishing Limited
(Institute of Physics)
• Johns Hopkins University Press
• Kluwer Law International
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
• Massachusetts Medical Society
• MIT Press
• National Academy of Sciences
• Nature Publishing Group
The most comprehensive list of
primary publisher partners of any discovery service
Author Supplied Abstracts and Author Supplied Keywords
from nearly all major journal publishers
• NRC Research Press
• Springer Science & Business Media
• Oxford University Press
• Taylor & Francis Informa
• Palgrave Macmillan
• University of California Press
• Royal Society of Medicine Press
• University of Chicago Press
• S Karger AG
• University of Toronto Press
• SAGE Publications
• Walter de Gruyter
• Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics
• Wiley
• World Scientific
Metadata
Like other discovery services, a large index of ‘thin’ metadata will be included
This file includes the ‘Table Of Contents’ from tens of thousands of journals
EBSCO’s focus is to offer an unparalleled depth of indexing
We will also include the full indexing of records for mutual customers of:
Alexander Street Press
Lexis Nexis
News Bank
Readex
Scopus
Web of Science
Government indexes
AGRICOLA
ERIC
MEDLINE
However, the EBSCO Discovery Service can be simultaneously
searched with all resources via EBSCOhost database
subscriptions, allowing an integrated, single search experience
for end users (with fast results)…
With EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost
Database Subscriptions are Seamlessly Included
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indexes
YES becomes YES for many important
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• EconLit
• MLA International Bibliography
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AgeLine
America: History & Life
ABSEES
ATLA Religion Database
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts Archive
CAB Abstracts
CAB Archive
Chemical Abstracts
CINAHL
Communication Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Ei Compendex
EMBASE
Family Studies Abstracts
With EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost
Database Subscriptions are Seamlessly Included
NO, becomes YES for many important indexes
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AgeLine – available via EBSCOhost
America: History & Life – available via EBSCOhost
ABSEES – available via EBSCOhost
ATLA Religion Database – available via EBSCOhost
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals – available via EBSCOhost
Biological Abstracts – available via EBSCOhost
Biological Abstracts Archive – available via EBSCOhost
CAB Abstracts – available via EBSCOhost
CAB Archive – available via EBSCOhost
Chemical Abstracts
CINAHL – available via EBSCOhost
Communication Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Ei Compendex
EMBASE
Family Studies Abstracts – available via EBSCOhost
Unlike any other discovery product, EBSCO Discovery Service will
include searching of all indexing, abstracts and full text from your
EBSCOhost full-text database subscriptions…including:
• Academic Search
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete
• Business Source
• Humanities International Complete
• CINAHL with Full Text
• MEDLINE with Full Text
• Dentistry & Oral Science Source
• SocINDEX with Full Text
• Education Research Complete
• And many others…
Simultaneous searching of non-EBSCO databases (federated search)
EBSCO’s Discovery Service can also allow end users to add federated resources
to their searches (for non-‘locally’ harvested sources), for example:
Ei Compendex
Encyclopedia Britannica
JSTOR
MathSciNet
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Zoological Record
EDS
(for almost
everything)
EHIS for
Everything
Else
Catalogue / IR is loaded directly into the EBSCO Discovery Service
(EDS)
The Library Catalogue is Loaded
Complete OPAC loaded directly into the EBSCO Discovery Service
Daily updates for catalogue changes
Real-time availability checks
Everything indexed in the catalogue will be available for discovery
searching
Book jacket images (Baker & Taylor), book records, entertainment
records, annotations, subject headings added
Institutional Repositories (archives) loaded directly into the EBSCO
Discovery Service
Everything indexed in the IR will be available for discovery searching
Complete Integration with AtoZ listing service and Open URL Link
Resolver services (EBSCO or alternative products)
How do end users get to the full text?
Users gain greater access to the library’s
online full text and print holdings
Selected features available through the EBSCO discovery experience
Incorporates results
from the library’s
catalogue, including
book jackets and
subject headings
The catalogue is
loaded, a new
limiter is available
Before the end of 2010,
EBSCO will have
classified peer reviewed
status for more than
100,000 journals
Facets
(source type)
Facets
(subject)
Coming with EDS 2.0 Release in June 2010
Subjects merged
together from
multiple databases
to form a
“super record”
Merged record
provides the
best abstract
available
Image Quick View
provided in
merged record
(when available)
See distinct
records from key
subject indexes…
PsycINFO record
Available on all records
regardless of source