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Welcome! 

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) creates a unified, customized index of your information resources, and provides an easy means of accessing all that content from a single search box. The ability to create a custom, pre-indexed solution is achieved by searching across the publisher’s subscriptions as well including abstracts and indexes from sources outside of your holdings. Your customers will only be able to access the links to the full text of titles to which they have subscribed. 
Single Search Box for EDS Partner Databases

To help us ensure the highest quality product, we ask that you take a few moments to answer questions about your data format and delivery. Please be as detailed as possible. We appreciate the opportunity to provide EDS sites and researchers with excellent, seamless search experiences. 

 

Information you will need to complete this questionnaire: 
•   Data delivery information 
•   Metadata format information 
•   Metadata elements 
•   Subscription and collection information 
•   Linking information 

 
Once you have completed this questionnaire, a copy will be provided to you. 

Database Information
Data Delivery Information
Our preferred method is FTP, whether from your corporate FTP or through EBSCO FTP.  We can also support OAI-PMH harvesting if compatible with EBSCO’s OAI-PMH harvesting framework. If you plan to use EBSCO FTP, we will send login credentials to your contact to upload the data within 30 days.
Record Count

Metadata Format  

Metadata Format  

EBSCO is able to provide customers with the best quality, and release your partner database faster, if data is provided in standard structured markup formats.  
 
For EDS, all records should:  

  • Include a publisher-provided unique identifier for each record 
  • Have data that is well-formed and valid to its schema  
  • Meet UFT-8 encoding standard 
  • Be included in files no larger than 2GB  


Metadata Elements  

Metadata Fields 

The following fields are required to be in the publisher-supplied metadata:   

  • Unique record identifier 
  • Title 
  • Author 
  • Publisher name 
  • Publisher location   
  • Publication date   
  • Document type   
Required Fields in a record


 

For periodical content (articles), the additional required fields are: 

  • Journal title   
  • Issue 
  • Volume 
  • Start page 
  • End page 

Required Fields for Article

To enhance the user experience, these are some additional fields we can display on your EDS partner database:  

  • ISBN/ISSN 
  • URL 
  • Title Variant 
  • Series Title 
  • Abstract 
  • Subject 
  • Title Source Series 
  • Type Source 
  • Non-Author Contributors 
  • Flag Peer Reviewed 
  • Language 
  • DOI 

Additional Fields
Full Text

While EDS does not display full text, we can index full text for backend searching. This improves search result accuracy for users, whose search terms may match content found only in full text.




Collections 
EBSCO Holdings and Linking Management (HLM) can be leveraged to subdivide pre-existing collections. We can also use collection-related fields in the metadata.  


Linking 
In order to provide the best research experience for our customers, we want to facilitate access from EDS search results to your platform. Custom Links are an important means of directing users to your site. 

Access Links Markup







Test Access

Updates




Thank you for completing our questionnaire! We appreciate your time and attention. Once we receive your full data delivery, we will begin designing and building your EDS Partner Database. We will also reach out with any questions during the building process. Once the database work is complete, our team will contact you with next steps on what to expect from EBSCO in making your database available to customers.  
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