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July 24, 2009

Enhancements to EBSCOhost Databases

by carrie.frey

New Enhancements to EBSCOhost Databases (Academic Search Premier)

Digital Archives and EBSCOhost® Content Viewer with Notetaking

Navigate historical content online in a more interactive and intuitive way. The new browser-based EBSCOhost® Content Viewer was designed to enable researchers to navigate historical content in a manner that is fast, natural and allows for the serendipitous discovery valued by historians.

Check out these features:

Single  and Facing-Page Image views which users can Pan, Rotate, Zoom-on,double-click

Search within entire documents with distinctive highlighting styles for exact and approximate word-matches

Image Quick View previews of visual content

Periodical issue browse menus which mimic “shelf-browsing”

A collapsible Document Map providing hover previews of each page and indicators of word-matches and illustrations

Custom PDF-generation from historical page images, with embedded citation information and persistent links to source

Integration with EBSCOhost folders

Persistent links to pages

Notetaking – users can annotate pages and articles, and save their notes to their EBSCOhost folder

Section 508 Compliant – machine-generated full text of historical documents accessible to screenreading software

COUNTER Statistics Reporting Compliant

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