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Management of content in EBSCOhost is not quite the same as managing content in EDS.
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Field codes allow for searching individual metadata fields in EDS and EBSCOhost. There is no centralized place on EBSCOConnect where this lives. Below are some of the most important.
TX-All Text | Performs a keyword search of all the database's searchable fields. Using the TX field code will cause the search to look for the keyword in the full text as well as the citation record. |
AU-Author | Performs a keyword search for any authors of an article. |
TI-Title | Searches keywords in a record's English and non-English title field. |
JN-Journal Title | Searches keywords in a record's Journal Title title field. |
SU-Subject Terms | Performs a keyword search of the subject headings listed in the records. |
DE-Exact Subject heading | Performs a search for exact subject headings within the Subject Fields section of a citation. |
SO-Source | Performs a keyword search for the journal name of the article. |
AB-Abstract | Performs a keyword search of the abstract summaries. |
IS-ISSN | Performs an exact search for a publication's International Standard Serial Number. |
IB-ISBN | Performs an exact search for an article's identification number in the ISBN and EISBN fields. |
FT Y | Use in conjunction with a Boolean Operator to find all Full Text for a Search Term |
FM T | Use in conjunction with a Boolean Operator to find all HTML Full Text for a Search Term |
FM P | Use in conjunction with a Boolean Operator to find all PDF Full Text for a Search Term |
FM C | Use in conjunction with a Boolean Operator to find all HTML Full Text with Graphics for a Search Term |
OC | Unclear: Using this field code in a KW Search with the space and then the lowercase prefix (ocn, etc) and the # will perform an index of Aleph records by OCLC # |
Additional field codes for date and time ranges can be found here.
EBSCOhost indexes a wide variety of content, but not all records in EBSCOhost databases will link to full text. The journal Podiatry Review for instance has full text from 9/1/2009 to present, but has metadata indexed from 1/1/2008 to present. This can be found in the publication page in EBSCOhost. Click on the pub. title in the advanced record to find full holdings information. What is indexed versus what has full text is based on marketing and sales decisions by EBSCO. Title lists for ehost databases can be found here.
Primary linking for EBSCOhost databases is through direct links to PDF/HTML (Smart Links) and Linked Full Text (Smart Links Plus). Anything else is powered by CustomLinks (which we have chosen not to enable in EBSCOhost) and the link resolver CustomLink.
We have several profiles for ehost databases. The most important is “EBSCOhost Web (ehost) - ehost” which covers all our EBSCOhost databases. There are other profiles which are named for individual databases but sometimes contain many more than that one resource. A cleanup was performed in Spring 2020 to remove deprecated profiles. Those that remain are in use in the Database A-Z
The main method of linking after native linking is through the SFX UMLinks. The CustomLink “SFX Link Resolver (Main User Group) EHOST” is attached to the “EBSCOhost Web (ehost) - ehost” profile in the Admin. It is joined by a specific CustomLink (SFX Link Resolver (GeoRef Only) UMAAH) for SFX linking through GeoRef. Bob has stated that he sees no need for this CL to exist. Apparently it only searches GeoRef, but it doesn't display because of the rankings in ehost and the main SFX CL is working fine.
These CLs cascade down to all EBSCOhost databases, regardless of if they have a specific profile. For instance, CINAHL has a profile with no CustomLinks but still uses SFX linking. These CLs are set to “Always Show,” with the secondary setting to suppress the CL based on the “Hide if Full Text” toggle. The local collection “EDRS Exclude (umaah.edex)” is selected, but is being ignored since the CL is set to always show if there is no other full text. Bob is unsure why the local collection would have ever been selected.