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World Book Content Searchable Through EBSCO Discovery Service

A recent agreement between EBSCO and World Book will bring twelve popular reference tools into EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, for World Book resources will be added to the EDS Base Index, allowing the World Book content to better impact searching through the EDS single-search interface. The twelve World Book resources that will be searchable in EDS include popular English-language titles as well as French- and Spanish-language reference tools. World Book joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy-yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections and OPAC. Furthermore, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching.