As part of an on-going commitment to facilitate a superlative research experience, EBSCO Publishing has added the ability to create personalized folders in EBSCOhost^®. Called 'My EBSCOhost', these individual accounts are accessible across multiple research sessions, so users can retrieve previously gathered information at a later time. Building on the concept of the EBSCOhost folder, which is still available for single sessions, EBSCO has expanded the capacity of the personalized folders. Folders in My EBSCOhost can save individual search results, search histories, persistent links to searches, search alerts, journal alerts and Web pages created using EBSCO's Page Composer feature.

Once a user logs in to their folder, their name appears beneath a My EBSCOhost icon, to indicate they are working within a personalized session. The methods that were used to save articles, search histories and alerts remain the same, with the added convenience of collecting and saving all items in a single folder.

Additionally, EBSCO Publishing has revamped Page Composer, a proprietary Web-design application that allows users to build customized Web pages. Page Composer is now found within My EBSCOhost, so users no longer have to log in to a different service to utilize this tool. Saved persistent links to articles, as well as links to searches within a personalized folder become the basis for the content of a user's Web page. When a user has finished creating a Web page, it can be saved in the user's personalized folder for future editing or e-mailed as a file to be posted online at the user's hosting Web site. Page Composer's enhancements provide EBSCOhost users with much greater accessibility to a powerful HTML tool with a wide variety of design choices for background styles, colors and formats.

EBSCO Publishing, EBSCO Subscription Services and EBSCO Book Services form the EBSCO Information Services group. EBSCO is a worldwide leader in providing information access and management solutions through print and electronic journal subscription services, research database development and production, online access to more than 100 databases and thousands of e-journals, and e-commerce book procurement. EBSCO has specialized products and services for academic, medical, government, public and school libraries as well as for corporations and other organizations. EBSCO maintains a comprehensive database of more than 282,000 serial titles and upholds active relationships with more than 60,000 publishers worldwide. EBSCO has been serving the library and business communities for almost 60 years. For more information, visit www.ebsco.com.

Contact: Hansi Kess (800) 653-2726 ext. 564 hkess@epnet.com

Release Date: Sept. 26, 2003