Overview

The EBSCOhost Entitlement API enables libraries and partners to resolve customer identity and a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) into a link to EBSCOhost full text, giving patrons easy access to their institution's EBSCOhost database content.

Using the EBSCOhost Entitlement API, libraries and partners can take advantage of EBSCO’s extensive, centralized knowledge base and deep experience in open linking to power external applications. By providing an opportunity to access full text content from EBSCOhost full text databases, specifically PDFs, EBSCOhost Entitlement API makes research easy.

This guide provides a brief overview of the EBSCOhost Entitlement API core concepts. If you have interacted with a RESTful API before, many of the concepts described here will be familiar to you.

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