Customizing
Discovery
Mike Waugh, Systems
Librarian
What is
Discovery?
LSU Databases Searched by EBSCO Discovery
Service
Academic Search Complete
New Testament Abstracts
Grove
Art Online
Accessible Archives
Agricola
Alexander Street Press
Alt HealthWatch
America: History and Life with Full Text
American National Biography Online
Aphasiology Archive
Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective: 19131983 (H.W. Wilson)
Archive of European Integration
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
arXiv
ATLA Religion Database
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts 1969 - Present
Book Collection: Nonfiction
Business Source Complete
China/Asia On Demand
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Computer Science Index
Computer Source
Credo Reference Collections
Directory of Open Access Journals
eArticle
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
EconLit
Economía y Negocios
Educational Administration Abstracts
Environment Index
ERIC
Essay and General Literature Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
Fuente Académica
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
GeoRef
GeoRef In Process
Government Printing Office Catalog
GreenFILE
Grove Music Online
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
HeinOnline
History Reference Center
Hoover's Company Profiles
Hospitality & Tourism Index
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 19071984 (H.W. Wilson)
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Index to Printed Music
Industry Studies Working Papers
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA)
Informit Business Collection
Informit Engineering Collection
Informit Health Collection
Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection
Informit Indigenous Collection
Informit Literature & Culture Collection
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I-VIII
JSTOR Ireland
JSTOR Life Sciences
Legal Collection
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W.
Wilson)
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective:
1905-1983 (H.W. Wilson)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with
Full Text
Literary Reference Center
MAS Ultra - School Edition
MedicLatina
MEDLINE
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mergent Annual Reports Collection
Military & Government Collection
Minority Health Archive
MLA Directory of Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Music Index
Naxos Music Library
News (AP, UPI, etc.)
NewsBank - Archives
NewsBank
Newspaper Source
OAIster
OAPEN Library
Old Testament Abstracts
Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
Philosopher's Index
PhilSci Archive
Primary Search
Professional Development Collection
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES
PsycBOOKS
PsycCRITIQUES
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
PsycINFO
Publisher Provided Full Text Searching File
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
Regional Business News
Religion and Philosophy Collection
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
Science & Technology Collection
Science Citation Index
ScienceDirect
Social Sciences Citation Index
SocINDEX with Full Text
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Supplemental Index
Sustainability Watch
Teacher Reference Center
Textile Technology Complete
Vente et Gestion
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
World Book
World History Collection
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Something to break
Your guinea pig
Your crash test dummy
A test profile to call your
own
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ma’am,
but your data is
showing.”
Database
Search Term
Field
Article
Agricola
Sandra Broussard
Author
“Barriers to Diabetes
Education in Urban
Patients: Perceptions
Patters, and Associated
Factors”
Aphasiology
Archive
Risk factors and
depression aphasia
Title
"Risk Factors for
Depression in Aphasia:
Clinical Implications"
Arts and
Humanities
Citation
Index
Boring sculpture
Keyword
“Baudelaire and the
boring sculpture of his
Era”
Discovery to
Delivery
Full text links
• There are three types of full text links in EDS
– SmartLinks
• Usually links to EBSCO resources
• Direct link to PDF or HTML content
– LinkSource
• Our Open URL Link resolver
• May link to Article level full text, abstract, the database,
or LinkSource jump screen with multiple options
– Custom links
• Links to partner databases
• Usually links to the material in the native database’s
environment (user interface)
Local collections
• You can create local collections and use
the local collection to affect the search
results
– Physical print journals
• To create links to print journals when full text not
available
– Weeded ebooks
Conclusions
• Perpetual beta
• Take ownership