Fabio Di BelloRegional Sales Manager

Italy & Israelfdibello@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 ofprimary 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 Chemical Society

• American Institute of Physics

• American Mathematical Society

• American Medical Association

• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

• American Society of Civil Engineers

• American Statistical Association

• Annual Reviews, Inc.

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Australian Academic Press

• Berkeley Electronic Press

• BioMed Central

• Blackwell Publishing Ltd

• BMJ Publishing Group

• 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 ofprimary publisher partners of any discovery service

Author Supplied Abstracts and Author Supplied Keywords from nearly all major journal publishers

• NRC Research Press

• Oxford University Press

• Palgrave Macmillan

• Royal Society of Medicine Press

• S Karger AG

• SAGE Publications

• Society for Industrialand Applied Mathematics

• Springer Science & Business Media

• Taylor & Francis Informa

• University of California Press

• University of Chicago Press

• University of Toronto Press

• Walter de Gruyter

• Wiley

• World Scientific

The most comprehensive list ofprimary publisher partners of any discovery service

Author Supplied Abstracts and Author Supplied Keywords from nearly all major journal publishers

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, EBSCOhostDatabase Subscriptions are Seamlessly Included

YES• EconLit

• MLA International Bibliography

NO• 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

NO, becomes YES for many important indexes

With EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhostDatabase Subscriptions are Seamlessly Included

NO, becomes YES for many important indexes• 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

• Film & Television Literature Index – available via EBSCOhost

• FRANCIS – available via EBSCOhost

• FSTA: Food Science & Technology Abstracts – available via EBSCOhost

• Gender Studies Database – available via EBSCOhost

• GeoRef – available via EBSCOhost

• Global Health – available via EBSCOhost

• Historical Abstracts – available via EBSCOhost

• Index Islamicus – available via EBSCOhost

• Inspec – available via EBSCOhost

• Inspec Archive – available via EBSCOhost

• IPM: Index to Printed Music – available via EBSCOhost

• International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance – available via EBSCOhost

• LGBT Life – available via EBSCOhost

• LISTA – available via EBSCOhost

• Math SciNet

• Music Index, The – available via EBSCOhost

• NCJRS Abstracts – available via EBSCOhost

• NTIS – available via EBSCOhost

• PASCAL – available via EBSCOhost

• Philosopher’s Index, The – available via EBSCOhost

• Polymer Library – available via EBSCOhost

• PsycINFO – available via EBSCOhost

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature – available via EBSCOhost

• RIPM – available via EBSCOhost

• RISM – available via EBSCOhost

• Social Work Abstracts – available via EBSCOhost

• SocINDEX – available via EBSCOhost

• SPORTDiscus – available via EBSCOhost

• Women’s Studies International – available via EBSCOhost

• Zoological Record

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

• Business Source

• CINAHL with Full Text

• Dentistry & Oral Science Source

• Education Research Complete

• Hospitality & Tourism Complete

• Humanities International Complete

• MEDLINE with Full Text

• SocINDEX with Full Text

• 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 almosteverything)

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 resultsfrom the library’s

catalogue, includingbook jackets andsubject 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 mergedtogether from

multiple databasesto 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