EBSCOhost appears to be chasing Serials Solutions into the Discovery Service arena. According to the press release at LJ, the EBSCOhost Discovery Service will be available by the end of 2009.
When asked what would set the EBSCOhost Discovery Service apart from other similar products, Gorrell cited EBSCOhost's access to its own 330 database offerings, as well as further metadata associated with 35,000 journals and magazines via EBSCO subscription services, and materials from content providers to be announced at a later date.
EBSCO has also just teamed up with OCLC; are we looking at a big competition between EBSCOCLC and Serials Solutions / Proquest coming down the road?
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