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Take Information Seeking to a New Level with PowerSearch Plus!

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., June 22, 2007 – Take searching to a new level with PowerSearch Plus, an easy way to find the information you’re looking for, both in the library’s online resources and on the Internet.

Between the online resources housed in libraries across the country and the myriad of information available on the Internet, it’s easy to see how information-seekers could be overwhelmed by the amount of information available to them, or, worse yet, resort to using unreliable information found on Web sites other than the authoritative resources libraries provide.  With PowerSearch Plus, information seekers can quickly and easily access their library’s electronic resources and the Internet from one starting point. 

Currently, all InfoTrac databases and the Gale Virtual Reference Library are available on the PowerSearch platform. This summer, these databases will be enhanced with the following new features:

• Search Alerts with RSS export: Set up instant search alerts and journal alerts, with the added ability to create RSS feeds of InfoTrac content. 
• Federated Search Results: Provide access to all your library’s databases and catalogs through PowerSearch. This collaboration with Groxis, a leading federated search company, will allow simultaneous access to other databases, including public Web sources and provide clustered results, all from one intuitive interface.
• Visual Search: A unique visual map provides a topical landscape of the search results, allowing users an alternate way to explore large sets of content and discover connections amongst them, all within a single page.  
• Did You Mean? When a search fails to bring desired results, you’ll be given alternate spellings and more preferred search terms to find appropriate results.
• Search Within Results: Dynamically refine search results to pinpoint specific information by adding or excluding more terms to queries.
• Enhanced Limiting: After a search is completed, the left sidebar will be repurposed to provide users with the option of selecting subject terms, subdivisions, article types and publications to allow further limiting of results.
• Enhanced Navigation: Based on feedback, changes have been made to improve the interface navigation, including the creation of document tools (print, email, cite, download, translate) that appear in a visible box on each document.
• Enhanced Tabs: The number of results now will appear on each tab, and color variation will be added to the tabs to signify more content behind the other tabs.
• Enhanced Bookmarks: Direct access to individual documents, searches and collections of documents will be made available through PowerSearch Bookmarks, which are clearly visible, easy to use, and always persistent.
• Improved “How-to-Cite” Functionality: MLA and APA formats for citations will be provided, with accurate elements, correct spacing and formatting.
• Publication Details: More information about each publication will be provided, including embargo periods, publisher address and contact information, and publication descriptions. 

With more than 100,000,000 documents, more journals and more reference eBooks than any other provider, “PowerSearch it!” to find reliable, authoritative information!

For more information, contact Vanessa Birch at vanessa.birch@cengage.com.

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