Product Update for EBSCOhost, August 12, 2009

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Product Update for EBSCOhost
August 12, 2009

EBSCO Animals improvements

INFOhio relays this abridged message from EBSCO Publishing.

Dear EBSCO Publishing Customer:

EBSCO Publishing has significantly improved the EBSCO Animals collection, now called Encyclopedia of Animals.

Formerly, EBSCO Animals was a stand-alone database. It is now part of these product families: Middle Search Plus and Primary Search and is accessible via the EBSCOhost, Searchasaurus, or Kids Search interface. Articles within the Encyclopedia of Animals can now be found more easily through improved citations with added subject headings and an abstract. In addition, each article includes a Lexile value. New images and maps have been included into the Related Item section of the full text.

Searchability and Content Improvements

	Source Type searching on Searchasaurus and Kids Search: For example, the search for the keyword tiger will return a Result List that allows filtering by Source Types. The Encyclopedia of Animals articles can be accessed via the source type Animals.
	The Encyclopedia of Animals contains added subject terms and an abstract making the content easier to find in the student’s keyword search.
	Each article now has Lexiles.
	Articles contain a Related Item feature with additional images and maps available through the interface Kids Search.

With these changes, EBSCO Animals will no longer be available as a stand alone database starting September 1. INFOhio's EBSCO Animals buttons and links will no longer lead to the separate product. All references to EBSCO Animals will be removed from the INFOhio Web site by January 2010.,

Bethany Morris
Customer Account Specialist
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938
[Contact INFOhio at webmaster@infohio.org.]