EBSCO Updates – Visual Search and RSS Feeds

Two months ago I noted that EBSCO was going to offer a visual search interface to their products courtesy of Grokker.  Either they just kind of slipped it in with a recent update, or I missed the big announcement, but Visual Search is now one of the tabs at the top of the EBSCO search screen:

Haven’t really had a chance to play with it yet, but in looking at the results of a search I helped a student with earlier today, it does seem to do a nice job grouping results.

I had noticed a couple of weeks ago that EBSCO was also offering RSS feeds for Journal and Search alerts, but I couldn’t get them to verify and when I contacted EBSCO they admitted that something was wrong.  Yesterday I got an email that things were all fixed, and was able to verify that today.  What I really like is that my institution’s EZProxy prefix is included in the RSS feed, which of course means if I was reading from off campus I could still get in.  Nice touch!

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