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Dear SIRS Discoverer Subscriber,

The next generation of SIRS Discoverer is here!

This month’s new feature release expands the basic foundation of Discoverer by updating the interface and improving user capabilities. You and your users can still enjoy the familiarity and comfort of SIRS in a more convenient, streamlined package.

The updates in Discoverer reflect feedback and input from our customers, making this version more user-friendly and intuitive than ever. Colorful tabs help students narrow down search results and determine which articles are from newspaper or magazine sources. In addition, Discoverer WebFind has been integrated into SIRS Discoverer so subscribers to both databases will have a seamless search experience.

Beginning January 19, Discoverer users will be able to:

• Search both SIRS Discoverer and Discoverer WebFind simultaneously.
• Access tabbed results lists to view all articles, newspapers, magazines and WebFind sites.
• Sort keyword search results by Relevance or Date without having to resubmit a query.
• Make use of a search box at the bottom of the results page so users can modify a search without having to start over.

Find out more! We’ve created a special multimedia demo that covers all of the new additions and changes so you can quickly take advantage of the new product when it goes live. The presentation runs about three minutes, and requires Macromedia Flash 6 or newer.

Click here to start the short demonstration inside your Web browser:
http://www.proquest.com/go/discjan04demo

To pause, rewind, etc. move your mouse to the upper right-hand corner of the presentation and a small menu will drop down. You may make a selection at any time to pause, skip forward and backwards, etc.

If you need to install the latest version of Flash, click here: http://www.macromedia.com

Please feel free to forward this product bulletin to other educators in your subscribing institution(s). Encourage them to sign up for our ProQuest, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, bigchalk Library, and eLibrary bulletins as appropriate. Our SIRS product bulletins will also be available using the signup page below very soon.

To subscribe to any or all of these offerings, visit: http://www.proquest.com/go/subscribenow

Have questions? We’re waiting to hear from you! Send your comments and queries to webmaster@sirs.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

We hope you enjoy the new SIRS Discoverer! Thank you for your interest in ProQuest and SIRS.

Cordially,
Your ProQuest K-12 Team
_________________________________________________
Vanessa Todevski
Consortia Contract Administrator
ProQuest Information and Learning
800-232-7477 x224
561-994-0079 x224
561-995-4017 Fax
vanessaw@sirs.com
www.il.proquest.com
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