Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Preview upgrades to EBSCO

Dear EBSCO Customer,

Thank you for the positive excitement surrounding our new EBSCOhost release, which we announced at ALA midwinter. Highlights of this release include our new Clustering of results sort option, a graphically-rich Visual Search mode, Alerts in RSS Feeds, as well as Database Groupings by Subjects. In response to requests from many of you, we are pleased to provide you with the opportunity to preview the upcoming EBSCOhost enhancements over the next several days, all of which will be fully released in the coming weeks.

The preview includes two links for your review: one will connect you to a sample profile that has the Database Groupings by Subject feature turned on. The second link will connect you to a profile that does NOT have that feature enabled. Once the features have been released, you will have options as to how you display and utilize them. For a review of the key features of this release, click here. Note: You will be previewing a BETA of the upcoming release, which can sometimes exhibit stability variances.

To Preview the new features:

* Click on this link to access a sample profile of all key software enhancements, including the Database Groupings by Subject feature. Database Groupings can be presented in the database drop-down list, if opted by the library administrator, to offer users groupings of databases sorted by popular subjects, such as technology, business, medical science, psychology or education.

* Click on this link for access to a sample profile of all key software enhancements, with the Database Groupings by Subject feature turned off:


To view all of our FAQs about these new features, click here. We encourage your feedback. To send us your comments, click on the E-mail Support link along the top toolbar of this site.

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