Intro to
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
Biblioteca Discovery
discovery@unitn.it
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19 marzo 2015
Where is EDS (Discovery)?
EDS can be found on the Library’s homepage, which is at this address: http://web.unitn.it/biblioteca
Library Homepage / Discovery Search Box
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What is EDS (Discovery)?
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EDS connects most of the the library’s electronic resources into one
interface.
EDS allows you to search for books, eBooks, articles (e-journals) and
more at the same time.
EDS is always adding new content to the index
What is Discovery?
Discovery Service is an online research tool that allows you to search a
large portion of our Library resources through a single search box.
Go to Discovery Service
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&group=main&profile=eds
Searches are possible by keyword, by title or by author; if you use
advanced search you can restrict results using a vast number of limiters.
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What is included in Discovery Service
EDS base index
EBSCO database which
contains bibliographic
information from
international catalogues,
databases, digital libraries,
open access archives,
government sources ...
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UNITN Resources:
Ebsco databases (among
whith Psycinfo, MLA, Avery Index),
Scopus, Web of Science,
unitn e-journals full-text, part of ebooks,
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Trentino Library Catalogue
(unitn documents): at the
moment only documents owned
by University libraries are
included.
What is included in Discovery Service
EDS base index
EBSCO database which
contains bibliographic
information from
international catalogues,
databases, digital libraries,
open access archives,
government sources ...
UNITN Resources:
Ebsco databases (among
whith Psycinfo, MLA, Avery Index),
Scopus, Web of Science,
unitn e-journals full-text, ebooks, ….
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Trentino Library Catalogue
(unitn documents): at the
moment only documents owned
by University libraries are
included.
UNITN E-JOURNALS
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UNITN E-BOOKS
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UNITN DATABASES
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EDS
«controlled vocabularies»
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Library resources not included in Discovery Service
Not all Library resources are included in Discovery Service. If you are not
satisfied with results, we advise you to search Library resources
separately.
Discovery Service does not search:
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CBT documents not owned by University libraries;
e-journals titles not included in EDS base index (full text of journal
articles are included);
databases not included in EDS base index;
ebooks not included in EDS base index;
degree theses catalogue.
Completeness
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EDS
EBSCO Ebooks Now Integrated on
EBSCOhost Platform
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EDS
Possible
Integration
through Widgets
Covered by Moving
to EBSCOhost or
by Optional
Federation
Covered by
EDS if MARC
Records are
Loaded in your
OPAC
EDS has indexing and
abstracting for 98.68% of the
journals in this database
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The Discovery Search Box
There are five tabs
1. Discovery: allows you to search for any and all resources available in EDS
2. Journals: this tab only searches Journals catalog for journals or e-journal (title)
3. Databases: this tab only searches Databases catalog for databases (title)
4. E-books: this tab only searches E-book catalog for e-books
5. CBT: this tab only searches Library’s catalog for books and journals (print)
Below the search box
What is Discovery: User guide.
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Advanced search
The Discovery Search Box
You can search the Title Field, the Author Field or
conduct a Keyword search, which would allow you to
search all fields at once.
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EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) provides you with
access to your library’s “?entire?” collection via …
a single entry point.
Accessing EDS from outside…..
Access from off-campus:
When you are accessing EDS from outside (home), you will see the screen below after clicking
the Search button. Access to e-resources from off-campus requires unitn authentication.
Access from campus network:
If you are on the campus, you will not see this screen and will be taken directly to the screen on
the next slide. Authentication is not necessary if you access from pc within the university
buildings (library rooms, faculties, departments ecc)
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Guest access
allows non-authenticated users to begin searching without logging in
When searching as a guest, users:
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Can search all EBSCO Discovery content.
Can view detail records and real-time catalog information for
catalog and institutional repository results
Must log in to view full-text content from an institution’s
databases.
Must log in to print, email, save, or export their results.
Guest access
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Conducting a Search
For this example, I will do a Keyword search in the
Discovery tab for information on information literacy.
After clicking the
Button, I will be shown a screen
with my results and the Research Starter
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Search Results
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Research Starter
Research Starters is a feature in EBSCO
Discovery Service (EDS) that provides
links to citable, authoritative summary
articles for thousands of popular topics.
Research Starters content is curated from
a variety of high quality sources, both
proprietary and encyclopedic, including:
Salem Press Encyclopedias, Salem Press
reference books, Encyclopædia Britannica,
American National Biography.
If a Research Starter appears on the Result
List, as in the example above, simply click
the article title or the More button to read
about the topic or find related articles and
images.
From the overview article page, you can
read the HTML Full Text article, listen to
the article using the Text-to-Speech
feature, or add it to your personal folder.
You can also click the icons under Tools to
print the article, email it, save it to your
computer, etc.
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The Results Screen … eds should deliver relevant results from authoritative sources
powerful relevancy ranking
and value-ranking algorithms
You can apply limiters or
expanders to your search
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EDS Relevance ranking EXPLAINED
crucial for delivering a quality search experience Need to
optimized search to display most relevant results on first
page
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EDS Relevance ranking EXPLAINED by EBSCO
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Basic Search screen
We’ll begin by conducting a search for Global Warming from the Basic Search screen.
Simply enter your search terms and click the Search button.
enter your search terms in the Find field
Keyword is the default
restrict your results to a Title search
or an Author search using the dropdown menu beside the Find field
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Autocomplete search suggestions …
Autocomplete search suggestions
As you begin to enter a search
term in the Findfield, keyword
suggestions are automatically
displayed. (Set to On or Off /
Preferences)
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Did you mean … misspellings…
Discovery service needs to work around misspellings, typographical
errors…
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Advanced search ….
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Search Options
….. if you would like to target your results more precisely, you can click the Search Options link
to reveal all of the available search modes, limiters, and expanders.
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Select your desired limiters and click Search.
Check the Catalog
Only limiter
to limit results to
only those items
available from
your institution’s
catalog.
The Available in Library Collection
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limiter restricts results to those
items whose full text is available
online (via EBSCOhost full text
databases, electronic journals, etc.)
or content physically available in
your library
Search history …All searches performed during your session are available from the
Search History…
Editing a Search:
A new result list is displayed.
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Any changes you made to your
search are reflected in the Search
History/Alerts window.
Search alert …
can be set up to provide automatic e-mail notification whenever new search results become available.
http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=4002
•Click
the Share link and select E-mail Alert from the resulting pop- up
menu.
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Create Alert window appears over the result list.
Search alert …EBSCOhost Alert Notification
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Limit your search to… …
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I can limit my search to Full Text, Scholarly (Peer Reviewed)
Journals and Available in Library Collection ….or more
Limiters are options you use to reduce the numbers of resources
you find. You get results that are better suited to your needs.
Limit by year…
You can limit your results to a specific range of years.
You can either move the slider bars or enter new years in the boxes.
By default, EDS selects all years for which resources are available.
I have chosen to limit my search from 2005 to 2015.
This reduced my number of results from around … to around …
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The Results Screen
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The Results Screen shows how many
and what types of resources have
been found from your search.
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The Results Screen is separated into three columns: The Search Results Column is in
the center and the Refine Results Column is on the left.
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The right column is a collection of additional databases and resources that EDS does not
search automatically. These resources will not be covered in this lesson
Search Results Column
This is the Search Results Column.
It shows the articles, books, and
other resources that were found in
the search . This search found
766,196 results.
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For each located resource, EDS provides a
citation (Title, Author, Date, Subject Terms) and
a link to the full-text.
Search Results Column
Articles (electronic version ) from my results
have PDF files or HTML for their full-text.
eBooks usually also use PDF files.
The icons left of the citations identify what type
of format the resources are (academic journal,
book, eBook, video, etc.)
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Detailed Record
You can view the Detailed Record by clicking the article / book title, or view a brief version of the
record by holding your mouse over the preview icon.
Results may also include real-time information on the location of an item from your institution’s
catalog
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Refine Results Column
There are several ways to refine your search from the Result List.
Apply limiters under Limit To or use the available facets (such as
Source Type, Subject, and Geography) all found in the left column.
Click the Show More link when displayed to view all available options.
Limiters allow you to filter out resources from the Search Results
Column Column
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Column that do not meet your needs.
Full text link…..
The result list is displayed. If available, select an article to read by clicking on
the full text link….
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Full text link…..
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LinkSource …EBSCO Linkresolver
•Financial
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shocks and labor: facts and theories
LinkSource …EBSCO Linkresolver
LinkSource connects
researchers from an EDS
index record to the
corresponding full text.
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Current Search
When refining your search results using limiters, source
…..types, and facets, each item is added to the Current
Search box found at the top of the left-hand column.
Clicking on a hyperlinked subject term within Current
Search executes a search for that term only.
Clicking on the X icon removes the term from Current
Search and refreshes your search results.
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This is called the Breadbox Breadbox
This is called the Breadbox.
It shows which limiters you have in place.
You can remove a limiter at any time by clicking
the small black box with the white x next to that
limiter.
The section above the Limiters section of the
Current Search box is called Expanders.
It allows you to search within the text of articles
and eBooks for your search terms.
This is not set by default. (Advanced search) …
it increased my number of results to…..
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You can always re-add and/or remove a limiter when you wish….
Resource Types Limiter…..
Below the Date Limiter is the Resource Types
Limiter.
You can choose to limit yourself to specific
types of information resources.
Click Show More to get an expanded list of
options, as shown on the next slide.
The numbers in parentheses show how many
results of that type of resource were found.
I chose to limit my Resource Types to Books, eBooks….. it
reduced my results to …
You can use the scroll bar on the right to see all of your options
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What content is included in the different EBSCO Discovery Service Source Types?
http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=6865
Searching tips ….. Boolean Operators etc….
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..tools in the right column of the Detailed Record
You can print, email, save, cite or
export a single result using the tools
in the right column of the Detailed
Record.
You can also access the catalog
record and view holdings information
in the left column, such as availability,
when an item is listed in your
institution’s catalog.
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How to Print EBSCOhost Records… to print an article
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Folder…
When you add Discovery Service results to the folder, they are available in the Articles area.
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Library user looking for a specific book in the catalog
Known-item / catalog search / book title search
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… looking for a specific journal or article title
Known-item / journal / citation search
Lists the library’s resources (ejournals;
ebooks) and holding information
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… looking for a specific journal or article title
Known-item / article : Expertise and
offending: Themes for future research
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… looking for a specific journal title
"american journal of psychoanalysis"
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….doing background research for a paper….
Subject search
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….doing literature review on specialized topic
Discipline specific search
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EBSCO Interfaces Preferences … setting preferences
The selections you make on the Preferences Screen can be saved to your
personal account (My EBSCOhost) .
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To change the language of the interface …
you can change the interface text from English to one of the following languages
languages
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To translate the full text of an article …
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From the article detail, select a language from the Choose Language dropdown list.
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Click Translate. The full text of the article is presented in the language you
selected.
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If you print, e-mail or save the full text, it will be delivered in the language
of the database. However, you can print the translated text using your
browser's Print function.
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Due to copyright, royalty and licensing restrictions, certain publishers do
not allow the translation of an article to another language.
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Automatic translation software systems
To translate the full text of an article …
Vocabulary, Syntax, and Narrative Development in Typically Developing Children and
Children With Early Unilateral Brain Injury: Early Parental Talk About the “There-andThen” Matters
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Using the Ask-A-Librarian feature Scrivi @Discovery Team
Click the Ask-a-Librarian link in the top right-hand corner
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Fill in your name and e-mail
address
Type in your question.
Click Send.
A confirmation screen displays
To Include Current search History
with the e-mail, mark the check box.
Minimum Browser Requirements for EBSCO Interfaces
http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=25
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Feedback
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HELP
At any time during your session, click the
Help link to view the complete online Help
system
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Guides….
http://web.unitn.it/en/biblioteca/32954/discovery
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http://web.unitn.it/biblioteca/26447/discovery-service
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) Support Center
http://support.ebsco.com/eds/
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Useful links
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Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps-gG2UPCkA
Help online http://support.ebsco.com/help/index.php
FAQ http://web.unitn.it/biblioteca/34550/domande-frequenti-sul-discovery
Online Training Courses: https://ebscotraining.webex.com/mw0401lsp12/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=ebscotraining
Ebsco support: http://support.epnet.com/
Help online
Mobile Access
http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=4976
http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery/user-experience/eds-mobile-access
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Contacts
Biblioteca Discovery
Via Verdi, 8 - 38122 Trento
ph. +39 0461 283049 - 3041
Discovery@unitn.it
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