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eds_admin_management [2019/05/14 12:07]
jmulvaney [Creating Local Collections]
eds_admin_management [2019/06/07 18:36]
jmulvaney [EBSCO Core Indexes]
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   * Complementary Index: Includes metadata by primary publishers for searching. Publishers included in this data set include Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Nature Publishing, ACM, Oxford, Cambridge, and thousands of others.   * Complementary Index: Includes metadata by primary publishers for searching. Publishers included in this data set include Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Nature Publishing, ACM, Oxford, Cambridge, and thousands of others.
   * Supplemental Index: Includes EBSCO-enhanced metadata for journals and  magazines (including peer-reviewed journals) not available in Academic Search or Business Source, as well as books, newspapers, and more.   * Supplemental Index: Includes EBSCO-enhanced metadata for journals and  magazines (including peer-reviewed journals) not available in Academic Search or Business Source, as well as books, newspapers, and more.
 +      * There is no way to tell beyond this list what content is in either of these core Indexes. EBSCO keeps it quiet for business reasons. You can always try searching for something in Discovery and limiting to one of these Content Providers to see where the metadata is coming from.
   * eBook Index: Includes metadata and searchable full text for more than hundreds of thousands of eBooks and is designed to facilitate discovery and linking of the eBooks you purchase directly from primary publishers such as Wiley, Sage, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press.   * eBook Index: Includes metadata and searchable full text for more than hundreds of thousands of eBooks and is designed to facilitate discovery and linking of the eBooks you purchase directly from primary publishers such as Wiley, Sage, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press.
   * Academic Search and Business Source: Includes metadata for more than these two resources. EDS suggests that we enable them regardless of subscription.   * Academic Search and Business Source: Includes metadata for more than these two resources. EDS suggests that we enable them regardless of subscription.
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       * Submit       * Submit
   * Once the titles are added you can select the LCL collection in a CustomLink editing screen.   * Once the titles are added you can select the LCL collection in a CustomLink editing screen.
 +
 +==== Direct URL Building ====
 +To build a direct URL to one of the EBSCOHost resources, use their [[https://​support.ebsco.com/​eit/​urlb.php|Direct URL Builder]]
 +  * The default is for an EBSCOhost Research Databases, choose something from the dropdown if this does not match what you need a URL for.
 +      * Select the correct EBSCOhost DB.
 +      * Enter our customer ID
 +      * Ignore the Group ID (Despite the two red asterisks, it is not required)
 +      * Enter our proxy address
 +          * silk.library.umass.edu
 +      * Select IP Address and User ID/Password as our Authentication Methods
 +      * Click Generate URL
 +          * Test the URL to make sure it is what you expect.
 +          * Test in Opera with the Silk Prefix. If it does not work it means the resource is not correctly configured in EZPRoxy.
 +
 ===== Enabling a New Resource ===== ===== Enabling a New Resource =====
  
eds_admin_management.txt · Last modified: 2022/08/16 15:05 by jmulvaney
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