EBSCOhost Discovery Service (EDS)
Auburn University Libraries is working with EBSCOhost to help test and develop the EBSCOhost Discovery Service (EDS), a unified index of the Libraries’ resources. EDS will provide patrons with one search interface to find full-text journal articles, as well as books from the catalog and items from the Auburn University Digital Library. As part of the test, the VuFind Advisory Committee also will see how the approximately 40 million article records work in the new Catalog (beta). Some of the advantages of the new search option, which is free for EBSCOhost databases and subscription-based for the 400+ partner databases, include being able to incorporate Auburn University colors and branding and including customized links, such as the Ask-a-Librarian chat service. This development project will run approximately until early 2010, when EDS will be commercially available. For more information about EBSCOhost Discovery Service (EDS), check out www.ebscohost.com
