OneSearch draws upon EBSCO's extensive publisher relationships to feature a far more robust collection of rich metadata for most indexed content, ensuring that users can obtain the most relevant search results for their queries. Rich metadata found in OneSearch includes:
OneSearch search results are returned in order of relevance to quickly provide researchers with the information that is most applicable to their needs. To help ensure that search results are ranked in the most relevant order possible, OneSearch employs a comprehensive ranking system.
From EBSCO Support.
EBSCO infuses content from dozens of top subject indexes (to which a library subscribes on the EBSCOhost platform) into the OneSearch experience.
OneSearch Discovery Service is a work in progress and EBSCO Support is aware of issues to be fixed:
Bound With: ISU Library have monograph titles that have been bound together. For the most part these are monographs that are published in series, such as Occasional papers of the Idaho State University Museum, USGS Bulletins, and so on. We have made an effort to link these together in a process we call "Bound With" in the catalog. This process allows all titles in the bound volume to show as "Checked Out" in the catalog when the volume has been borrowed by a patron. It was discovered that many of the individual titles are not included and thus not searchable in OneSearch. At this time, only the first title in the bound volume is in OneSearch. From Beth Downing, ISU Library's Government Documents Librarian. Reported to EBSCO in March 2015.
"A system problem has occurred" message?
You may receive this error message using your browser's Back button rather than the navigation available within the interface. Rarely, data errors that can be corrected by EBSCO may also cause this error. We ask for your feedback to assist us in correcting any error you may encounter.
Please include the following to help us troubleshoot further:
Exact steps to duplicate - Include the specific search string along with the name of the database that you were searching.
Web Browser information - Include version along with which Browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome).
EBSCOhost URL that displayed when you received the error message - Copy the URL from your Browser's address bar when the error message displays.
View Source information from the error page:
EBSCOhost URL of previous screen prior to error message - Click on your browser's Back button and copy the URL from the Browser address bar of your previous screen.
You can then e-mail the exact steps to duplicate, web browser information, EBSCOhost server URLs, and the saved file to support@ebsco.com.
If you are receiving this error message when using EZproxy from the Database Selection Screen, please see the following FAQ:
When accessing EBSCOhost via EZproxy, a "System Problem has Occurred" error message displays.
Within Enhanced Catalog Records feature EBSCO provides patrons with functionality based on a cataloging model described by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The model, known as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), is an entity-relationship model that defines how the bibliographic universe should behave.
This feature is enabled for OneSearch. Enhanced Catalog Records will display on the detailed record page and can include one or more of the following pieces of information:
From EBSCO Support.
Content from most of the Library's database providers is searchable through the OneSearch interface. If you feel that database content is not being adequately searched by OneSearch, please contact us through this page and we will investigate.
Content that we have not subscribed to is added only if the open-access database provides full text access to the content.