Chapter 4: Ebsco Discovery Services

Abstract

Ebsco Discovery Services (EDS) represents the first of the trio of web scale discovery services debuting in 2010. Built off the established EBSCOhost platform, EDS extends the platform into the web scale discovery space through a preharvested, centralized index encompassing content sourced from Ebsco databases and beyond. This chapter provides a brief history, overview, and a few insights into the future development path of EDS, describes the local and remote content associated with the EDS index, and highlights some of the features, functionality, and flexibility associated with the EDS interface.