Fabio Di Bello Regional Sales Manager Italy Israel

Fabio Di Bello Regional Sales Manager Italy & Israel fdibello@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 Ato. Z 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 of primary 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 Statistical Association • American Chemical Society • American Institute of Physics • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) • American Mathematical Society • Australian Academic Press • American Medical Association • Berkeley Electronic Press • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology • Bio. Med Central • American Society of Civil Engineers • BMJ Publishing Group • Annual Reviews, Inc. • Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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 • 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 of primary publisher partners of any discovery service Author Supplied Abstracts and Author Supplied Keywords from nearly all major journal publishers • NRC Research Press • Springer Science & Business Media • Oxford University Press • Taylor & Francis Informa • Palgrave Macmillan • University of California Press • Royal Society of Medicine Press • University of Chicago Press • S Karger AG • University of Toronto Press • SAGE Publications • Walter de Gruyter • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics • Wiley • World Scientific

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 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, EBSCOhost Database Subscriptions are Seamlessly Included NO, indexes YES becomes YES for many important NO • Econ. Lit • MLA International Bibliography • • • • Age. Line America: History & Life ABSEES ATLA Religion Database Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Biological Abstracts Archive CAB Abstracts CAB Archive Chemical Abstracts CINAHL Communication Abstracts Criminal Justice Abstracts Ei Compendex EMBASE Family Studies Abstracts

With EBSCO Discovery Service, EBSCOhost Database Subscriptions are Seamlessly Included NO, becomes YES for many important indexes • • • • Age. Line – 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 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

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 • Hospitality & Tourism Complete • Business Source • Humanities International Complete • CINAHL with Full Text • MEDLINE with Full Text • Dentistry & Oral Science Source • Soc. INDEX with Full Text • Education Research Complete • 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 Math. Sci. Net Pro. Quest Digital Dissertations Zoological Record

EDS (for almost everything)

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