EBSCOhost® is the world's most-used reference resource. It is a customizable, intuitive search experience designed to cater to user needs and preferences at every level of research, with over 300 full text and secondary databases available.
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Workflow Integration and Customization Options
Using their own competencies, learning professionals can select the optimal content from EBSCO’s collection of thousands of book summaries, magazines, and journals. EBSCO then delivers the customized learning content packages for integration into the company’s own learning program.
By integrating EBSCO’s learning resources within the corporate workflow, critical content becomes more readily available and more valuable to the organization and learning management staff.
Customized search boxes can be created by administrators with corporate branding, enabling users to simply enter search terms, such as “leadership,” to be brought into EBSCOhost where related articles populate the search results. Topics such as a company’s core competencies and learning goals can be shown below the customized search box.
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Searching Options
EBSCOhost provides Basic and Advanced Search Screens (Searching tips) to accommodate both novice and experienced researchers. The Guided Style Advanced Search Screen allows users to enter multiple keywords and specify where in the results they should appear. Numerous and more sophisticated Limiters are also part of the Guided Style Advanced Search Screen.
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Managing Search Results
My EBSCOhost (My EBSCOhost Quick Tip Sheet) provides users with a password-protected storage option. Once a personalized folder account (My EBSCOhost) has been created, users can save individual search results, search histories, persistent links to searches, Search Alerts, Journal Alerts and web pages created using Page Composer, across multiple sessions, for use in future sessions. EBSCO's My EBSCOhost folder functionality supports multiple folders, allowing users to sort and efficiently manage results within multiple, customizable folders.
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Search and Journal Alerts
Search Alerts save time by enabling users to create automatic email deliveries to designated recipients of new results for their most recently-conducted search.
Journal Alerts provide automatic email notification whenever a new issue of the designated journal has been added to a specified database.
EBSCO's One-Step RSS Feed Alerts allow users who wish to receive updated EBSCOhost search results on a newsreader or web page to instantly capture a syndicated RSS feed URL whenever they conduct a search in EBSCOhost.
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Customization Options
Administrators have ample flexibility with which to customize EBSCOhost, EBSCO Discovery Service and OPAC onEBSCOhost. For details see this FAQ.