Increase Usage of Critical Subject Indexes
with Platform Blending
Leading subject indexes provide critical information for academic research. However, the overwhelming majority of the most respected indexes do not provide their metadata to any discovery service, and for good reason.
Yet these resources are critical to an optimal research experience; due to the tremendous depth of coverage and level of indexing associated with these important resources, discovery services are simply not viable replacements for these indexes—the quality of searching would greatly diminish, and researchers would be left unaware of information that could otherwise be critical to their findings.
Access Critical Indexes through the Unique Platform Blending Solution
As a solution to this issue, EBSCO has developed a unique Platform Blending technology, which infuses content from dozens of top subject indexes (to which a library subscribes on the EBSCOhost platform) into the EDS experience. This locally-indexed solution (NOT federation) allows researchers to capitalize on the investments that libraries have made in these indexes, and maximize the value of the full suite of library resources.
Learn more about the technology behind Platform Blending.
