EBSCOhost 2.

0
A Smarter Search Experience.
Beginning in July 2008.
Clean. Powerful.
Intuitive.
Customers can also display additional
search options if desired…
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 Smarter Results
Improved results page gives more
power to the end user…
Narrow your results…
by Source Type…
Narrow your results…
by Subject…
lso, a navigable “Breadcrumb Trail”
of recent search clusters
appears above the Result List…
Users can now remove terms
from anywhere on the Trail…
sers can also start a brand new
search using any term on
the Breadcrumb Trail…
Use the slider to quickly limit
relevant results to
particular date ranges…
Click “More Options”
for a display
of available limiters…
ted Images
ed Images from EBSCO’s Image Collection appear
rt of appropriate result sets.
’s Image Collection contains photos,
trations, maps, flags, etc. from sources not available
gazine or journal articles (suppliers include
Images, UPI, Canadian Press, Motion Picture
evision Photo Archive, etc.).
your mouse over the image thumbnails to preview.
to see bibliographic record.
Image Quick View
• Images from journal articles are now also more apparent
to the end user via the new Image Quick View…
• Provides thumbnail images directly on the Result List,
for instant graphical content previews
• Display first 4 or Show All
 Article Detail
(a.k.a., “full record”)
Image Detail
• Title and Caption
• Source with Illustration page number
• How to Cite help link
Photos
Photos
Tables
Graphs
ientific Illustrations
 Image Quick View (IQV)

• All EBSCOhost journals with native PDFs will have IQV

on an ongoing basis by 2009
• Only journals with native PDFs will have this feature
(i.e., scanned PDFs do not include IQV)
• Initially, no separate limiter on the interface for IQV,
but it is coming in 2009
• In total, EBSCOhost will provide IQV for 9,182 journals
and 3,766,000+ images as of January 2009
 Image Quick View (IQV) – Statistics By Database
Total FT Total IQV
Journals & Journals &
Database Magazines Magazines

Academic Search Complete 5,796 3,916

Academic Search Premier 4,522 2,824
Business Source Complete 3,167 1,494
Business Source Corporate 2,905 1,151
Business Source Premier 2,338 889
CINAHL Plus with Full Text 544 320
Communication & Mass Media Complete 338 247
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete 725 450
EconLit with Full Text 453 357
Education Research Complete 1,043 665
 Image Quick View (IQV) – Statistics By Database
Total FT Total IQV
Journals & Journals &
Database Magazines Magazines

Environment Complete 680 533

Humanities International Complete 871 591
International Security &
Counter-Terrorism Reference Center 412 243
LISTA with Full Text 236 155
Literary Reference Center 428 249
MasterFILE Premier 1,754 329
MEDLINE with Full Text 1,260 1,027
Science & Technology Collection 830 613
SocINDEX with Full Text 698 502
SPORTDiscus with Full Text 430 248
Related Results
from NewsBank
(if the library
subscribes
to NewsBank)
Collapse panes to hide
or show options…
 Improved Relevancy
Hover your mouse over Ranking,
for Better Results…
the article preview icon

Sort by date or relevance…

Level of relevance is graphically displayed…
 Preview articles by
hovering over the icon…
 Preview
• Links to Full Text and related articles
• Add to folder directly from
preview window
Folders also allow access
to recently added items…
 Print

Access full-text
delivery options
 Email

Access full-text
delivery options
 Save

Access full-text
delivery options
 Add to Folder

Access full-text
delivery options
 Export

Access full-text
delivery options
 Cite

Access full-text
delivery options
Displays all citation methods…
Users can also export to
specific bibliographic
management software…
Also, coming in 2009, an easy
“copy to clipboard” function…
Improved access to
related articles…
Today’s persistent
links become
the new URL...
and easier to copy.
Bookmarkable!
Articles, Searches
and Publications
now Bookmarkable
Introducing
SmartText
Searching
 Paste the entire
article into the
search box
and retrieve a
relevant result li
 SmartText Explained

• The system analyzes each word in the query

for how unique it is
• Then, a weight is applied to each word
• Then, a search is initiated using those
weights as relevancy controls
• We are considering future enhancements to
let users control those weights themselves
Librarians can choose one of
two Visual Search options for
their library’s default.
Or...
Advanced Search
More powerful than ever…
“Guided Style” searching
still available for
Advanced Search users…
Subject Mapping is
also available…
 When selected,
Search History displays
above the Result List
 Click “Choose Databases” for
a display of available databases
Mouse over preview icons
for detailed descriptions
EBSCOhost 2.0
Coming
July 2008
Thank You