Ingolf Kaspar, Regional Sales Manager Databases
ikaspar@ebscohost.com
Just like Google indexes the web,
EDS indexes materials found in library
collections
What is EBSCO Discovery Service?
• A single search box experience for users
• Like Google for the library’s own, unique collection
– Fast and simple
– Single results list
– Relevancy ranked results
• Searches across a fast mega-index representing the library’s
collection
– Covers print and electronic resources
– Not federated search (pre-harvested metadata)
• Leads users to immediate full text for the top journals
provided by the library.
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS): Facts
• EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) commercially launched on January
1st 2010.
• By beginning of august 2010, EBSCO had worldwide > 200 EDS
trial partners. Octobre > 270 institutions.
• Example: ”Aleph” library that has invested in EDS:
– State University of New York Albany, http://library.albany.edu
– ~ 18,000 FTE
– Subscription of a number of bibliographic databases: Inspec, Econlit, Historical
Abstracts, MLA, Social Science Abstracts
– Invested in EDS in Octobre 2010.
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS): Facts
Examples of universities that have activated guest access:
Customers:
– Liverpool University, UK (Millenium), http://bit.ly/liv-eds
– Open University, UK, (Voyager) http://bit.ly/open-eds
Trial partners:
– Linköping Universitet, http://bit.ly/lin-eds
– Stockholm Universitet, http://www.sub.su.se/secure/eds.aspx
EDS News – implementations & content
http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news
II. EBSCO Discovery: tjänstens uppbygnad/arkitektur
Komponent 1): Library Catalogue
Komponent 2): Institutional Repositories
Komponent 3): EDS Base index
Komponent 4): Databaser på EBSCOhost
1. The Library Catalog is Loaded
• Real-time availability checks
• Daily updates for catalog changes
• Everything indexed in the catalog will
be available for discovery searching
• Can handle harvesting from different
library catalogue types/formats.
• Catalogue records enriched with Baker
& Taylor data, e.g. book jackets,
subject terms
Continuum of Metadata
quality
Best!
Even better when
contributed by a
leading subject
index database
subscription!
Better than
nothing
Even better with
searchable full
text!
Pretty good
Title
Authors
Source
Publication Type
Language
Cultural diversity in nursing education: perils, pitfalls, and pearls.
Bednarz H; Schim S; Doorenbos A
Journal of Nursing Education (J NURS EDUC), 2010 May; 49(5): 253-60 (29 ref)
Journal Article
English
ISSN
0148-4834
DOI
10.3928/01484834-20100115-02
Affiliation
Typical CINAHL record
Clinical Instructor, Wayne State University, College of Nursing, 5557 Cass Avenue, Room 237,
Detroit, MI 48202, e-mail: ah4969@wayne.edu
Major Subjects
Communication Barriers; Cultural Competence; Cultural Diversity; Education, Nursing; Faculty,
Nursing; Teaching Methods
Minor Subjects
Communication -- Methods; Faculty Role; Funding Source; Insanity Defense; Negotiation; School
Accommodation; Students, Nursing
Abstracts
Special Interest
Increasing diversity in the classroom challenges nursing educators to identify issues that
complicate teaching (perils), analyze barriers for themselves and their students (pitfalls), and
select new strategies for working with nontraditional students (pearls). This article identifies
concerns arising from attitudes and values within nursing and common approaches to diversity
education, and then discusses key issues in nursing education that relate to human nature,
culture, faculty workload, and student demographics. Finally, some strategies are proposed for
increasing the effectiveness of professional preparation with diverse students through a focus
on culturally congruent education and development of faculty cultural competence. Copyright
2010, SLACK Incorporated.
Nursing Education
Title
Authors
Source
Publication Type
Language
Cultural diversity in nursing education: perils, pitfalls, and pearls.
Bednarz H; Schim S; Doorenbos A
Journal of Nursing Education (J NURS EDUC), 2010 May; 49(5): 253-60 (29 ref)
Journal Article
English
ISSN
0148-4834
DOI
10.3928/01484834-20100115-02
Affiliation
Clinical Instructor, Wayne State University, College of Nursing, 5557 Cass Avenue, Room 237,
Detroit, MI 48202, e-mail: ah4969@wayne.edu
Major Subjects
Communication Barriers; Cultural Competence; Cultural Diversity; Education, Nursing; Faculty,
Nursing; Teaching Methods
Minor Subjects
Communication -- Methods; Faculty Role; Funding Source; Insanity Defense; Negotiation; School
Accommodation; Students, Nursing
Thin Metadata
Abstracts
Special Interest
Increasing diversity in the classroom challenges nursing educators to identify issues that
complicate teaching (perils), analyze barriers for themselves and their students (pitfalls), and
select new strategies for working with nontraditional students (pearls). This article identifies
concerns arising from attitudes and values within nursing and common approaches to diversity
education, and then discusses key issues in nursing education that relate to human nature,
culture, faculty workload, and student demographics. Finally, some strategies are proposed for
increasing the effectiveness of professional preparation with diverse students through a focus
on culturally congruent education and development of faculty cultural competence. Copyright
2010, SLACK Incorporated.
Nursing Education
Title
Authors
Source
Publication Type
Language
Cultural diversity in nursing education: perils, pitfalls, and pearls.
Bednarz H; Schim S; Doorenbos A
Journal of Nursing Education (J NURS EDUC), 2010 May; 49(5): 253-60 (29 ref)
Journal Article
English
ISSN
0148-4834
DOI
10.3928/01484834-20100115-02
Affiliation
What would you rather search?
Thin metadata (yellow) or the full record?
Clinical Instructor, Wayne State University, College of Nursing, 5557 Cass Avenue, Room 237,
Detroit, MI 48202, e-mail: ah4969@wayne.edu
Major Subjects
Communication Barriers; Cultural Competence; Cultural Diversity; Education, Nursing; Faculty,
Nursing; Teaching Methods
Minor Subjects
Communication -- Methods; Faculty Role; Funding Source; Insanity Defense; Negotiation; School
Accommodation; Students, Nursing
Abstracts
Special Interest
Increasing diversity in the classroom challenges nursing educators to identify issues that
complicate teaching (perils), analyze barriers for themselves and their students (pitfalls), and
select new strategies for working with nontraditional students (pearls). This article identifies
concerns arising from attitudes and values within nursing and common approaches to diversity
education, and then discusses key issues in nursing education that relate to human nature,
culture, faculty workload, and student demographics. Finally, some strategies are proposed for
increasing the effectiveness of professional preparation with diverse students through a focus
on culturally congruent education and development of faculty cultural competence. Copyright
2010, SLACK Incorporated.
Nursing Education
Relevancy Ranked Results
• EDS results are returned by relevance
• The system has the following priorities:
– Match on subject headings
from controlled vocabularies
– Match on article titles
– Match on author keywords
– Match on keywords within abstracts
– Match on keywords within full text
Metadata Available for Magazines & Journals
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, including but not limited to:
• ACM – Association for
Computing Machinery
[journals AND conference proceedings]
• American Association for
the Advancement of Science
[journals]
• American Institute of Physics
[journals AND conference proceedings]
• American Statistical Association
[journals]
• American Society of Civil Engineers
[journals]
• Cambridge University Press (CUP)
[journals AND books]
• Annual Reviews, Inc. [journals]
• BioOne [journals]
• Blackwell [journals AND books]
• Brill Academic Publishers
[journals AND books]
* Most of these include full-text searching
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, including but not limited to:
• EDP Sciences [journals]
• Elsevier (journal metadata)
• Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
[journals]
• Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
[journals]
• IOS Press [journals AND books]
• Johns Hopkins University Press
[journals]
• Guilford Press
[journals AND books]
• Harvard Business Publishing
[journals]
• Karger AG [journals]
• MIT Press [journals]
* Most of these include full-text searching
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, including but not limited to:
• Nature Publishing Group
[journals]
• Oxford University Press
[journals AND some books]
• SAGE Publications
[journals AND books]
• Springer
[journals AND books]
• Taylor & Francis Informa [journals]
• University of Chicago Press
[journals]
• University of Toronto Press [journals]
• Wiley [journals AND books]
• World Scientific Publishing Group
[journals]
* Most of these include full-text searching
Selected (Non-Journal) Publisher Partners
• ABC-CLIO
• Credo Reference*
• Alexander Street Press
• ebrary*
• Baker & Taylor
• H.W. Wilson
• BASE (institutional repositories)*
• Ingenta
• Books 24x7
• JSTOR
• British Library
• LexisNexis
• Business Monitor International
• Mergent*
• Columbia University Press
• Morningstar Inc.
* Verbal agreement from provider
Data Available for Searching Journals & Magazines
TOC
(Table of Contents)
Full-Text Articles
Subject Indexing
from Controlled
Vocabularies
1
EDS
1
EDS*
1
EDS*
1
Summon
2
Summon
2
Summon
1
WorldCat Local
2
WorldCat Local
2
WorldCat Local
1
ILS Vendors
2
ILS Vendors
2
ILS Vendors
* Has All Major Publishers
Signed Up with Other
Services, Plus Unique
Full Text from Major Magazine
Publishers
(as well as full-text databases)
* Has Far More Indexing
Due to Integration
of Subject-Specific
Journal Indexes
Data Available for Searching Books
Catalog Records
Indexing from
Baker & Taylor
Full-Text Searching
via NetLibrary
YES
EDS
YES
EDS*
YES
EDS*
YES
Summon
NO
Summon
NO
Summon
YES
WorldCat Local
NO
WorldCat Local
NO
WorldCat Local
YES
ILS Vendors
NO
ILS Vendors
NO
ILS Vendors
EDS will also offer metadata from Books 24x7, Credo Reference,
ebrary, World Book, and full text directly from top book publishers
Full-Text Searching: EDS also searches within full-text documents
• Academic Journals
– EDS has more full-text journals for
searching than any other discovery
service due to superior relationships
with academic publishers
– EDS also has full-text
academic journal searching
through EBSCOhost databases
(unlike any other discovery service)
• Magazines
– EDS has more full text for searching
than any other discovery service,
including many unique titles such as:
Time, U.S. News & World Report,
BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune,
Money, People, Sports Illustrated, etc.
• Newspapers
– EDS searches newspaper metadata
from NewsBank, including some
archives; as well as metadata from
Newspaper Source Plus
• E-Books
– EDS has more full-text books for
searching than any other discovery
service due to superior relationships
with academic publishers
– With EBSCO’s acquisition of
NetLibrary, full-text searching of
e-books will now be available for
customers that access those e-books
via NetLibrary
Also unlike any other discovery product,
EBSCO Discovery Service will include searching
of all indexing, abstracts and full text from
EBSCOhost full-text database subscriptions…
• Academic Search
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete
• Business Source
• Humanities
International Complete
• Communication &
Mass Media Complete
• Political Science Complete
• Dentistry & Oral Science Source
• SocINDEX with Full Text
• Education Research Complete
• And many others…
EBSCO Database Metadata
Available via Discovery Services As of January 1, 2011
EDS
ALL Indexing, Abstracts, and Full Text for ALL
of a library’s EBSCO database subscriptions.
WorldCat Local
TOC-only for 5% of EBSCO’s databases.
No abstracts, no indexing, no full text.
Primo Central
NONE.
Summon
NONE.
Encore
NONE.
Statistics Show an Increase of
Overall Collection Usage with EBSCO Discovery Service
Sample of subject-specific database usage
at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Selected Features
available through the
discovery experience
Guest Access
(allowing anonymous users to access EDS, the catalog, etc.)
• “Guest access” version provides
somewhat limited access to users
before they have authenticated
• http://bit.ly/liv-eds
EBSCOhost widgets allow
you to bring parts of your
website into EBSCOhost
Languages Handled by EDS Today
• Bahasa Indonesian
• German
• Polish
• Croatian
• Hungarian
• Portuguese
• Czech
• Italian
• Romanian
• Danish
• Latin
• Slovak
• Dutch
• Latvian
• Slovenian
• English
• Lithuanian
• Spanish
• Estonian
• Malay
• Swedish
• Finnish
• Nigerian
• Turkish
• French
• Norwegian
• Welsh
EDS: Upcoming Major Developments
DECEMBER 2010
• Web of Science
integration in EDS
for subscribing libraries
EDS: Upcoming Major Developments
Coming in 2011
• Composite Book Records
– Enhanced library catalog record with
a consolidated SmartLinked list of
available editions and manifestations
(i.e. FRBR)
– Links to all copies/formats:
eBooks, Audiobook, ILL, etc.
Discovery-tjänst konfigurerad som ”totalsök”
Tvärsnitt i materialet för (ämnes)specifika Discovery-portaler
Intelligent sökmotor
EDS is fully customised to each library’s collection and
needs
• Academically focused metadata
– The EDS unified index adapts and grows with your library’s collection
• Users can access academic focused features
– Search history, personal folder, persistent links
– Fully customizable advanced search alerts and RSS feeds
• Customisation
– Choice of search screens (single search box or advanced)
– Skinning, branding and imported widgets (eg. LibGuides, Meebo)
• Administration module
– Usage statistics, linking and interface customisations
Why choose EBSCO Discovery Service?
• Highly usable & familiar search interface (based on EBSCOhost)
• More features and functionality (customisable)
Better
Searching
• More sources from more content participants
• More academic publisher content
• More detailed and richer metadata (subject headings)
Better
Coverage
• Ability to include and search many of the world’s most important
subject indexes (eg. PsycINFO, EconLit, INSPEC, CINAHL)
• Delivery of more relevant results to the user (priority match on
subject headings)
Better Results
Weaknesses of other discovery solutions
• Google centric / web search:
– Too simplistic and lacks features that academic users require
– Search and relevancy algorithm fails to leverage high quality metadata
• Catalogue centric
– Lacks coverage of journal and magazine articles (particularly
academic publishers) resulting in over emphasis of book results over
article results
– Makes only a fraction of the library collection discoverable at the
article level
• News centric
– High quality academic results are lost among millions of news articles
Tack!
Frågor: ikaspar@ebscohost.com