If you’ve spent time on publisher websites, you know that the user interface can vary widely from one publisher to another. For researchers, learning how to effectively navigate these different platforms can be a headache.

Add into that the headache for librarians of having to manage different subscription licenses from different publishers, and you can see the need for an easy, one-stop solution.

That’s where content aggregators step in.

Content aggregators are companies that host content from many different publishers on the aggregator’s platform. That means users can find and access content across multiple publishers through the same search interface, in the same format, on the same platform – and more easily navigate between content from different publishers.

One of the best-known aggregator platforms is EBSCOhost, sold through EBSCO. EBSCOhost aggregates content from across many scholarly research publishers and collects them into subscription products, which libraries purchase in order to give their users broad-based content access across many publishers in a single interface.

These aggregated products are especially valuable to publishers because they help content reach subscribers that otherwise would haven’t the budget or administrative resources to work with each publisher individually – this can be especially true for organizations like community colleges, public libraries, schools, and other secondary markets for scholarly research.

Many titles have an embargo period before they are added to aggregator products, which means there is a delay between content being made available on Wiley Online Library and our partners’ products. However, current content is always highly discoverable through indexing and discovery products, some of which are managed by the same partners that offer aggregated products.

Besides EBSCO, other content aggregators we partner with include Ovid, and JSTOR, as well as specialist aggregator services in law and psychology.

This article is part of the series Research Distribution: Connecting Research to Readers.