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.
