Product Review of EBSCO Discovery Service
Jinfo Report
15th February 2016
Abstract
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is premium content supplier EBSCO's world-leading tool for single search across all an information centre's resources.
This review:
- Introduces its work with partners and clients and sums up how it provides value to organisations.
- Looks at implementation, search response and filtering, content provider partners and how it promotes discovery.
- Looks at how EDS can be used to target results, and the options are for customisation, search strategy and outputs. Help and support and the mobile offering are also discussed.
- Summarises the support available and describes EDS' main competitors: ProQuest's Summon and Primo from Ex Libris. Rounds up with plans for future developments and a summary of the pricing structure.
Reviewed by Sophie Alexander
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- Report title: Product Review of EBSCO Discovery Service
- Pages: 16
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