EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit
The EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit (EIT) enables university librarians to provide their user community with the best content in the optimal online environment…the one already in use!
With EIT, researchers can access EBSCO content from within university library portals and departmental intranets. The EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit options range from simple to sophisticated, to match any integration requirement. With robust documentation and user support services, EIT dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of custom integration for university IT staff.
EIT options include:
- SharePoint: EBSCO provides pre-built web parts and How To documentation, enabling organizations to embed the EBSCOhost experience directly into their SharePoint pages. EBSCO's web parts provide targeted access to relevant and timely information needed by faculty and students. Detailed documentation provides guidance to users choosing to create customized web parts. Because the web parts leverage existing EIT options such as RSS and web services, organizations have multiple options when choosing to deploy EBSCOhost web parts. EBSCO's SharePoint security model is based on full SSL (https) support available on EBSCOhost and implementation of web part security best practices. This dual security focus makes for an inherently secure and trusted SharePoint solution.
- Persistent Links: Users can embed persistent links to the full text of specific articles from EBSCO databases, into a library portal or department intranet. Access to the article is seamless to the end user. The portal or intranet administrator can create, remove or change the persistent links at any time.
- RSS Feeds: Users can set up continuously updating RSS-based content feeds from EBSCO databases. The content is presented as an active article heading, with links to the full text on EBSCOhost. Access to the content is seamless to the end user. The RSS option minimizes the bandwidth and content management burdens for the university portal, since the full text is only served when requested. The portal or intranet administrator can create, remove or change the RSS feeds at any time.
- Web Service (XML Gateway): The EBSCO XML Gateway is a SOAP and REST compatible web service used to establish direct links from an Enterprise Search Application (ESA) to reference databases from EBSCO. The EBSCO XML Gateway provides customers with multiple integration methods, allowing them to submit customized and contextually based search and retrieval requests, as well as to tailor the format of the retrieved XML content to suit the needs of their users and internal web sites or applications. Features of the EBSCO XML Gateway include:
- Keyword, Subject, Image, Index, and Thesaurus search
- Article retrieval
- SmartLinks, CustomLinks, and Persistent Links
- Support of multiple industry vocabularies including MeSH, CINAHL, ICD9, ICD10 and SNOMED-CT
- Z39.50 support
- SOAP and REST-like access
- Secure (SSL) access – https support
- Usage statistics reporting
- Real-time updates
- Enterprise Search Integration (ESI): ESI makes EBSCOhost database metadata content available to an Enterprise Search Application (ESA) search index. The end result is that an ESA user can search EBSCOhost content within an integrated result list in combination with other databases and local content, under one common interface. ESAs can index millions of structured and unstructured documents from several content sources, and can utilize internal/external taxonomies to present users with a rich search experience - far exceeding today’s Federated Search products in usability. Some of the most popular ESAs include: Endeca, FAST Search, Autonomy, Northern Light, Lucene/Solr, and Google Search Appliance.
EBSCOhost can push article metadata with links back to the full text. Databases are accessible as XML via different mediums, including FTP. Incremental updates to the content are available in new XML files. This allows ESAs to index the content on their own time, and avoids the resource intensive processes and duplicate HTTP hits associated with web crawling.
- Z39.50 Access: Users can integrate EBSCO databases into a library ILS using the Z39.50 protocol. EBSCO provides a full range of Z39.50 compliant functionality, including:
- Federated Search
- Serial Solutions (360 Search)
- MetaLib (Ex Libris)
- Bibliographic Management software
- EndNote (Thomson Reuters)
- Library Catalog Portals
- ENCompass (Endeavor)
- Horizon Information Portal (SirsiDynix)
- One Search (Follett)
- OpenURL linking: Users can integrate EBSCO databases into library information systems using OpenURL linking. EBSCO content can be accessed from library systems using OpenURL link server technology. Supported functionality includes:
- Full text article level linking via a Link Resolver
- SFX (AM/RC)
- Serial Solutions (Article Matcher)
- LinkSource
- PubMed Full Text linking
- Google Scholar Full Text linking
- EBSCOhost Connection
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