Enhancements to ABC-CLIO History Databases

The recently released version 4.1 of America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts includes: -Cross-database searching between Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life -User-friendly searching, including inverted author names and punctuation alternatives -Ability for users to save search histories to a personal profile -Natural language date searching, in addition to the traditional decade and century searching -Speed improvements for faster searching -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 –Brian Schoolar (Electronic Resources Librarian)

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