Access entrance: EDS discovery system
Introduction to the database:
The EDS Academic Discovery System is developed by EBSCO in the United States . Through a hybrid search technology combining metadata and federal search, it can discover massive amounts of global academic resource information in one stop, and obtain copyrighted full text resources.
EDS academic system has been found worldwide 1 million user adoption agencies and universities, including many world-class universities, such as MIT, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, University of Edinburgh, University of Liverpool, etc. A world-renowned university; it has also been adopted by Microsoft America as the only provider of internal knowledge search services and the knowledge service provider of Microsoft's digital library. In China, there are also users from double-class universities such as Sun Yat-sen University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Nanjing University, Renmin University of China, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Xi'an Jiaotong University and nearly 90 other university users.
EDS academic discovery system can provide high-quality, low-cost academic resource discovery and sharing services for library users. Provide readers with a simple, easy-to-use, powerful and easy-to-customize integration platform, through a unified search interface, to help readers quickly obtain the documents they need. All data and search results of different types and sources will be unified and fully integrated in the search result list. More importantly, through the unique relevance ranking, these massive data are compiled into sequence, so that readers can find the required research literature in the shortest time.
The EDS Academic Discovery System will provide readers with a unified search interface and a unified search language, so that readers can access various resource databases owned by the library: electronic journals, electronic books, library collections, institutional collections, open access databases and other resources Conduct a one-stop integrated search. Discovery service, as a single retrieval entry for readers, can realize multiple services such as simple retrieval, advanced retrieval, and original / abstract retrieval. Based on the principle of cloud computing, the database does not need to be installed and deployed locally, and does not need to be maintained by librarians.
The EDS academic discovery system of Tianjin Urban Construction University is equipped with English journals and e-book resources purchased by the library, as well as Chinese (VIP full-text journals, Wanfang academic journals, Wanfang dissertations, Wanfang academic conference documents) and other resources.
Four distinctive features of EDS
1. Rich interpretation materials: bibliography, abstract, keywords provided by the author, subject vocabulary
2. High-quality relevance ranking: based on rich interpretation data + word frequency / density analysis calculation
3. Direct full-text links: including smart links on the EBSCO platform, dynamic links to documents (OpenURL Resolver) , and customized links to all documents of the publisher.
4. Platform integration: EBSCOhost secondary literature database users can directly query through EDS
