Library Database Service Status

This is a reminder that a newly enhanced version of the databases America History & Life and Historical Abstracts will become active on June 22, 2006.

As part of a 50-year anniversary celebration in 2005, ABC-CLIO embarked on a multiyear program to upgrade and enhance both Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life. A new version of the databases, with a redesigned interface and many new features, was introduced in January 2006.
Now, based on feedback from customers, we're pleased to announce another upgrade to the databases. These new features will become active on June 22, 2006, with the release of version 4.1.

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
  
• 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
  

ABC-CLIO is committed to building upon its legacy of producing landmark history resources, and we think you—and your patrons—will be pleased with the enhanced research capabilities of both databases. As always, your comments and feedback are welcome.
Best regards,
The team at ABC-CLIO