Two of the ABC-Clio databases available at USF, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life will present enhanced interfaces starting tomorrow June 22.
This new version 4.1 features will include:
- Cross-database searching between Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life
- Faster, smarter searching, including: suggested terms for searches that return no results; inverted author names; punctuation alternatives and dynamic search tips
- Ability for users to save search histories to a personal profile
- Enhanced search capability for time period searches that includes individual years and spans of years
- Ability for users to build a set of tagged records across multiple searches
- A display option for expanding all of a user’s search result records at once
- Addition of a “print-this-entry” option for each record in a search results display
- Ability to easily limit searches to English language entries only
- OpenURL-support for book entries in the Historical Abstracts database