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The content associated with EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is configurable, providing customers with options to extend and enhance the solution to best fit their needs. This custom approach to discovery provides the best possible experience for end users, and increases the usage and value of any library’s complete collection.

EDS Base Index + Custom Components
The EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, the EDS Base Index currently provides metadata for:

• More than 64,000 Magazines & Journals
• Nearly 6 million Books
• Nearly 400,000 Conference Preceedings
• 825,000 CDs & DVDs
• More than 320 million Newspaper Articles
• Hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types, including:
  • Biographies
  • Book Summaries
  • Case Studies
  • Company Profiles
  • Conference Papers
  • Dissertations
  • Government Documents
  • Grey Literature
  • Industry Reports
  • Newswires
  • Study Guides
  • Transcripts
  • And More...

The Most Comprehensive Collection of Metadata
EDS enables users to search the widest and deepest collection of metadata and quickly access the content to which they have rights.  Content components available with EBSCO Discovery Service include:

• Detailed metadata (e.g., author-supplied abstracts, keywords, subjects, etc.) from far more content providers and publishers than any other discovery service
• Robust metadata from the most comprehensive collection of journals & magazines
• Complete indexing from EBSCOhost databases to which an institution subscribes (e.g., Academic Search, Business Source, CINAHL, Historical Abstracts, etc.)
• Complete indexing from important non-EBSCOhost databases (to which a customer subscribes), including resources from Alexander Street Press, LexisNexis, NewsBank, Readex, and many others
• Complete OPAC loaded directly into EDS (and searched along with all other EDS content), includes:
  • Real Time availability checks
  • Daily Updates
• Book jacket images, book records, entertainment records, annotations, family keys, subject headings, demand information, awards, review citations, etc., for hundreds of thousands of publications
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• Institutional archives/repositories that can be directly loaded into EDS and searched as part of the overall experience

EDS customers can build upon the base index by adding metadata representing their own unique collections including their catalog (OPAC), databases, archival collections and more—allowing them to extend and enhance the solution to best fit their needs.