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Colleagues/

 Houston , We Have Reached The Tipping Point >>>

/Gerry

Ipswich, MA (PRWEB) November 10, 2009 -- EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is
bringing its EBSCOhost® databases to users—even if users are on their
smartphones. EBSCO has released EBSCOhost® Mobile™ allowing
researchers to access their EBSCOhost® databases via smartphones and
other handheld devices.

EBSCOhost Mobile allows us to provide users with a platform that makes
the power of EBSCOhost, and its content, highly accessible on the most
popular smartphones and mobile devices.

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All databases and services currently available on the EBSCOhost
platform will be available via EBSCOhost Mobile. The EBSCOhost
interface is the most-used research platform currently available in
more than 100,000 libraries around the world. Since the interface is
the basis for EBSCO Discovery Service™, EBSCOhost Mobile is poised to
dramatically impact mobile searching.

EBSCOhost Mobile provides a convenient way for customers using mobile
devices to find quality content. The main EBSCOhost Mobile screen
offers a number of options including choosing which EBSCOhost
database(s) to search plus setting search options, accessing field
codes and specifying preferences.

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Many of the existing EBSCOhost features such as search modes, limiting
to full text, date ranges, peer-reviewed content or by publication are
available. Users will also be able to search images from their mobile
devices.

The result list is scrollable and available data includes citations,
Image Quick View™ and access to full text articles. The result list
also features a relevancy indicator and users are able to email
results.

Clicking into a result replicates the EBSCOhost user experience
providing researchers with information including author
information/affiliation, links to the source, document type, subject
terms, NAICS/Industry codes along with the abstract, ISSN, Accession
Number, persistent links, images, links to full text, etc.

The interface has been designed with a lower resolution, simplifying
the interface by removing folders and some other more advanced
features for increased speed and user convenience.

In addition to providing access to smartphone users, EBSCOhost Mobile
will also work on desktops helping libraries with low bandwidths since
it uses only a fraction of the bytes compared to a traditional
EBSCOhost search. EBSCOhost Mobile will also open up access to
research databases to researchers in remote locations who are only
able to access via satellite links.

Access To The Full Press Release Available At

[ http://tinyurl.com/yaxooqv  ]

 BTW: As Always > I Am Greatly Interested In Other A&I / eBook / Etc.
Mobile Initiatives / Please Report As A Comment On The Blog Entry

!!! Thanks A Million !!!

 !!! Thanks To Kathleen McEvoy / Public Relations Manager / EBSCO
Publishing / For The Heads Up !!!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

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There Is No Answer, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying

The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed
Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace



/Gerry

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