EBSCO Discovery a good tool to include in your library

Over period of time federated searching has been discussed and spoken about widely, however it has been observed that there are diverse opinions from the research and library community over the impact of federated search engine speed, quality, and relevance to search.

Serials Solutions, EBSCO, Ovid, Muses, TDNet and others entered into the market, however EBSCO was able to provide a reliable and fast searching algorithm for the research community through its product EBSCO Discovery Service.

Following features are outstanding according to me:

1.       Article translation service

2.       Guest Access

3.       Customization of interface

4.       API to help you integrate searching into your website

5.       Visual Search

6.       Create your collection (drag and drop)

7.       Image search

8.       Search screen alert

9.       Facets

10.   HTML Article (text to speech)

11.   High Quality relevance ranking

12.   Folder and folder management (Useful for researchers)

13.   Other standard features are all available

In the internet world user won’t wait for more than 8 seconds if they don’t get relevant results, under such situation, EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is the right solutions because EBSCO has quality understanding about the indexing algorithm, relevant results are displayed very fast.

I feel institutes should consider EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) while evaluating federated searching (which is dying technology) for their institutional requirements.

Rajesh

American Journals (Society) - Embargo

Dear All,

Below please find American Society journals which are open after a particular period (Embargo), believe they would be useful to all of you in getting online access

Rajesh

Journal Name	Publisher	Open in Months
Molecular Biology of the Cell	American Society for Cell Biology	2
Journal of Oncology Practice	American Society of Clinical Oncology	4
American Journal of Human Genetics	American Society of Human Genetics	6
Anesthesia Progress	American Dental Society of Anesthesiology	6
Annals of Family Medicine	American Academy of Family Physicians	6
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Applied and Environmental Microbiology	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology : CVI	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Comparative Medicine	American Association for Laboratory Animal Science	6
Eukaryotic Cell	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Infection and Immunity	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS	American Association for Laboratory Animal Science	6
Journal of Bacteriology	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Journal of Clinical Microbiology	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : JCSM : Official Publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine	American Academy of Sleep Medicine	6
Journal of Virology	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Molecular and Cellular Biology	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	6
Physical Therapy	American Physical Therapy Association	6
The AAPS Journal	American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists	12
AAPS PharmSciTech	American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists	12
ACS Chemical Neuroscience	American Chemical Society	12
Advances in Dental Research	International and American Associations for Dental Research	12
Advances in Nutrition	American Society for Nutrition	12
Advances in Physiology Education	American Physiological Society	12
Age	American Aging Association	12
AIP Advances	American Institute of Physics	12
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition	American Society for Nutrition	12
The American Journal of Pathology	American Society for Investigative Pathology	12
American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology	American Physiological Society	12
American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism	American Physiological Society	12
American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology	American Physiological Society	12
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology	American Physiological Society	12
American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology	American Physiological Society	12
American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology	American Physiological Society	12
American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology	American Physiological Society	12
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	American Thoracic Society	12
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	American Thoracic Society	12
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene	The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene	12
Applied Physics Letters	American Institute of Physics	12
Biomicrofluidics	American Institute of Physics	12
Blood	American Society of Hematology	12
Chaos	American Institute of Physics	12
Chest	American College of Chest Physicians	12
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN	American Society of Nephrology	12
Clinical Microbiology Reviews	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	12
Diabetes	American Diabetes Association	12
Diabetes Care	American Diabetes Association	12
Drug Metabolism and Disposition	American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics	12
The FASEB Journal	The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	12
Hand (New York, N.Y.)	American Association for Hand Surgery	12
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA	American Medical Informatics Association	12
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN	American Society of Nephrology	12
Journal of Applied Physics	American Institute of Physics	12
Journal of Applied Physiology	American Physiological Society	12
The Journal of Biological Chemistry	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	12
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research	American Society for Bone and Mineral Research	12
The Journal of Chemical Physics	American Institute of Physics	12
Journal of Clinical Oncology	American Society of Clinical Oncology	12
Journal of Dental Research	International and American Associations for Dental Research	12
Journal of Lipid Research	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	12
Journal of Mathematical Physics	American Institute of Physics	12
The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics : JMD	American Society for Investigative Pathology	12
Journal of Neurophysiology	American Physiological Society	12
The Journal of Nutrition	American Society for Nutrition	12
The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics	American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics	12
Medical Physics	American Association of Physicists in Medicine	12
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews : MMBR	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)	12
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics : MCP	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	12
Molecular Pharmacology	American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics	12
Molecular Therapy	The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy	12
Neurology	American Academy of Neurology	12
Pediatrics	American Academy of Pediatrics	12
Pharmacological Reviews	American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics	12
Physics of Fluids	American Institute of Physics	12
Physics of Plasmas	American Institute of Physics	12
Physiological Genomics	American Physiological Society	12
The Plant Cell	American Society of Plant Biologists	12
Plant Physiology	American Society of Plant Biologists	12
Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society	American Thoracic Society	12
The Review of Scientific Instruments	American Institute of Physics	12
American Journal of Public Health	American Public Health Association	24