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What is a Discovery Service?
• Pre-harvested metadata (not federated search)
• A single search box– Databases– Journals– eBooks– Catalogues
• A google-like search experience
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What can be discovered?
• Content from:
– Britannica
– WorldBook
– Gale Cengage
– Oxford Press
– EBSCO
– And more…
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Benefits
1. Students find relevant content faster than before
2. Your Library will have a greater ROI
- Expose all areas of your varied collection
- Increase usage
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• University of North Florida had a 247% increase in usage for ScienceDirect
EDS Increases Usage
• Bournemouth University had a547% increase in ScienceDirect link-outs
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Summary
• Discovery: It’s all about relevant results• Content – largest number of publisher partners
• Superior searching – relevancy algorithm finely turned
• Implementation
• Discovery Service Engineer, complete customization, authentication, branding, widgets and development.