[Web4lib] Ebscohost and local collections as limiters

[Wilfred Drew]

I have just discovered a very interesting fact when it comes to using local collections as a limiter in Ebscohost databases.  The local collections limiter gets over ridden by the full text limiter.    This means you can not use both at the same time to get a smaller and more relevant set of results.  To use local collections as a limiter you must deselect full text.  This seems very bizarre to me.  Ebscohost tech support provided great help in figuring this out.  They weren't aware of this problem or is it a feature?

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