New Enhancements for EBSCOhost® Electronic Journals Service

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A. – EBSCOhost® Electronic Journals Service (EJS) Enhanced now includes the availability of a new usage report for administrators, improved journal searching capabilities for end users and an upgrade to Athens authentication compliance.

The new Article-Level Activity usage report is available through the EJS Admin site. It allows administrators to determine EJS usage by department or fund code.

As a result of the journal searching enhancement, EJS end users no longer need to include leading articles (‘a,’ ‘and,’ or ‘the’) in their search entry. Journal titles that begin with one of these words will be listed in alphabetical order after dropping the ‘a,’ ‘and,’ or ‘the’ in the search results (example: The Journal of American Culture would appear as Journal of American Culture).

Effective immediately, Athens authentication for EJS meets the standards of compliance for the latest Athens release, version 3.6.

EJS handles electronic journal access and management needs. EJS Enhanced offers extensive features that help with e-journal management tasks such as tracking the registration status of e-journals, authentication assistance to facilitate both on-campus and remote access to e-journal content, automatic management of e-journal URLs and much more. EJS Enhanced serves as a consolidated gateway that allows users to search and link to (OpenURL supported) more than 11,800 journals and 5.8 million articles. EBSCO provides durable URLs for every journal, table of contents and article in EJS Enhanced. No URL maintenance by the library is required.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services provides libraries and research centers with online and print journal subscription services, e-resource access and management services, full-text and secondary database development and access, an OpenURL-compliant link resolver, online book purchasing and related information services. EBSCO maintains a title database of more than 298,000 serial titles and upholds relationships with more than 78,000 publishers around the world.

EBSCO’s 32 Regional Offices worldwide are staffed with personnel who speak the local language and understand the particular challenges faced by librarians in their areas, offering a uniquely personal level of service. Specialized divisions serve academic, biomedical, government, public, school and special libraries as well as corporations.