[Web4lib] Ebsco Tech Tip!

[Drew, Bill]

I posted this on my blog after doing a lot of digging around in Ebsco's
Knowledge Base at http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/index.php.
 
It is a great resource.

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
E-mail: mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu
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From: Bill Drew [mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu] 
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 2:44 PM
To: bill.drew at gmail.com
Subject: [Baby Boomer Librarian] Ebsco Tech Tip!


The SUNYConnect project <http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/>  will be
providing a large number of Ebsco databases to its member libraries
starting in July. This will include CINAHL Plus FullText and Pre-CINAHL.
Some of us wanted a way to search both of them at the same time by
clicking on a URL. I figured out how to do this by creating the
following URL: 

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&default
db=rzh,cih

This results in a search page opening up where both CINAHL PlusFullText
(rzh) and Pre-CINAHL are preselected to be searched together.

I simply used the parameter defaultdb and set it equal to rzh,cih.  The
short names of databases can be found at:

http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=1255

Details on creating links todatabases can be found at:

http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=863




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