Ebsco Discovery Service

Discovery services are single search tools that provide fast and simple access to print and electronic material available through the library catalogue. Edge Hill University is purchasing the Ebsco Discovery Service. The service will allow students to search for print books, eBooks, journals, full-text articles, etc. from a single screen; it then searches the library catalogue and the majority – although not all – of our electronic resources.

Accessing Ebsco Discovery Service

The service can be accessed either from the Library Catalogue or the Learning Services webpage by clicking on the Discover More links:

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You will then be taken to the Ebsco Discovery Service link:

Searching

A simple search screen allowing searching by keyword, author and title is displayed:

The full Ebsco search features are available by clicking Search Options.

Search results are displayed in a similar way as other Ebsco databases and have similar functionality.

The federated search box on the right of the results screen allows searches of items not in the Ebsco discovery collection

Number of results

Refine results

Store results / search in folder

Link to full text

Resort results by Date or Relevance

Federated search