July 24, 2009
Enhancements to EBSCOhost Databases
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Navigate historical content online in a more interactive and intuitive way.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Section 508 Compliant – machine-generated full text of historical documents accessible to screenreading software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