LinkSource enhances the EBSCO Discovery Service experience by linking users to appropriate full text that is not available directly within the service. LinkSource is a vendor-neutral, OpenURL link resolver that puts you in control of item-level linking between your online services, including e-journal sites, full-text and secondary research databases, OPACs, websites, search engines, document delivery, and interlibrary loan forms. LinkSource is powered by EBSCO’s Integrated Knowledge Base – one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date in the industry. This knowledge base, which is shared by EBSCO’s A-to-Z service, is unique in that it includes your institution’s order history for resources acquired from EBSCO, automatically determining coverage rights and updating holdings. With LinkSource, you can connect your end users from the citations in one service to the full text in another, maximizing the use of your full-text collections.
LinkSource includes:
- Configuration options to reflect your entire e-holdings collection
- Easy menu-driven configuration of links from thousands of targets pre-configured by EBSCO
- Shared knowledge base with EBSCO A-to-Z means full-text targets are automatically added to the LinkSource menu
- Comprehensive branding capabilities
- Support for direct links to full text
- Citation finder, helping users locate specific articles
- Compatibility with citation manager software, such as RefWorks, EndNote and Reference Manager
LinkSource helps libraries:
- Increase efficiency with access to the appropriate copy from the point of discovery
- Automatically update Knowledge base holdings with e-resources acquired from EBSCO - saving valuable staff time
- Hosted on EBSCO’s servers; no local servers to maintain
- Save money by reducing ILL and document delivery charges
- With real-time Knowledge base updates, providing immediate access to resources
