EBSCOhost is the familiar, powerful search experience that serves as the foundation of EBSCO Discovery Service. All elements of the Complete Discovery Solution share in the powerful functionality provided by the EBSCOhost search platform. This allows for the most seamless search experience available and requires far less training and support than other discovery/federated search services.
William Badke, Associate Librarian at Trinity Western University (Canada) and author of Research Strategies: Finding Your Way through the Information Fog
The EBSCO Discovery Service interface is the same used in more than a hundred thousand libraries around the world—it is EBSCOhost, the most-used platform for premium research. Leveraging the power of the EBSCOhost platform means that when customers select EBSCO Discovery Service, there is no need for librarians or end users to learn yet another new interface. Instead, this will open up additional content to users already familiar with the EBSCOhost interface—no new training for staff and no confusion over one search potentially leading to multiple interfaces and websites, etc.
Since discovery is based on the familiar EBSCOhost interface, consistent searching does not end with the result list. While other services launch users into new interfaces or send them to publisher sites right from the initial result list, EBSCO Discovery Service offers a full-featured experience for users to remain within the structure of EBSCOhost. In fact, EBSCOhost features are available with the discovery experience for any applicable database, from any vendor including such features as:
- A variety of limiters and expanders, including peer-reviewed, full text, date slider, etc.
- Various facet options including subject, source, publication, etc.
- One-click alerts
- Email, print, save and export functions
- Various citation formats
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Bookmarkable URLs - Persistent links
- RSS options etc.
- EBSCOhost basic and advanced search screen functionality
- Enhanced Folders for gathering, managing and sharing documents
- Custom links
- Extremely Fast response times
- Image Quick View
- Availability on Mobile devices
- And much more
