Thursday 6 March 2008

EBSCOhost 2.0

EBSCOhost will be updating their interface in the summer of 2008. Some of the key features will be:

* A cleaner, simpler user interface
* Related Images readily available beside the Result List
* Results directly from NewsBank
* Instant article previews from mouse-over action
* Expand/Collapse side panels
* Search history displayed above Result list
* SmartText Searching to provide full results from partial Find field terms
* Multi-database access to Authority files
* URLs that can be bookmarked
* A convenient, streamlined Cite process for all citation styles

There is an EBSCOhost 2.0 Flash overview, available at
http://www.ebscohost.com/flashViewer2.php?marketID=1&topicID=981
and some information describing EBSCOhost 2.0 features at
http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969

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