Spotlight on Databases!
MasterFILE Premier
This product, designed for public libraries, is a large collection of magazines, reference books, images, and primary source documents. MasterFILE Premier contains extensive backfiles for some key publications:
- Consumer Reports (1991 to present)
- History Today (1975 to present)
- Library Journal (1975 to present)
- National Review (1975 to present)
- Newsweek (1990 to present)
- Saturday Evening Post (1931 to present)
- Time (5/7/1990 to present)
Libraries may create permalinks directly to the publication details page for a specific magazine by using the 'Share' functionality. The Discus Office is happy to provide assistance with this.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds
of full-text reference books on most major subject areas and is useful to those of middle school age through adults. Credo returns results from its own collection of books and also communicates with other Discus databases to retrieve relevant results from them as well. Browse through the Credo Toolbox to learn more about this amazing product.
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SmartSearch Makes It Easy!
Have you used SmartSearch by Discus lately? With SmartSearch you can perform a single search and retrieve information from numerous electronic resources provided by Discus. It's easy, fast, and eliminates the need to be familiar with multiple search interfaces of individual products. Test drive both SmartSearch versions soon!
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PowerSearch, EBSCOhost, and SmartSearch...So What's the Difference?
With three amazing tools available for searching multiple databases at once, some confusion about what each of them does is understandable! Let's shed a little light on the situation.
PowerSearch
Linked on the A-Z List of Discus Resources, this tool cross-searches only the Gale databases: Biography In Context, Nursing and Allied Health Collection, and Opposing Viewpoints in Context.
EBSCOhost
When a user selects EBSCOhost Research Databases, also found on the A-Z List, an extensive menu displays. All of the databases listed are from the company known as EBSCO. So EBSCOhost enables the user to select and cross-search many EBSCO products at once.
SmartSearch Both of the previous tools are highly effective, but they are clearly specific to each of the companies mentioned. SmartSearch, however, is designed to cross-search databases that are owned by numerous companies. It retrieves results from most of the eight companies that provide resources to Discus. Back to top
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If you want to learn more about something related to Discus, chances are good that others may benefit from that information as well. Send your training topic to the Discus Office and we can probably create either an onsite or online training to address it.
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