[OPLINLIST] Fwd: EBSCOhost Search Tag Changes

[Laura Solomon]

/Just in case you were one of the few who knew about these tags (I sure 
didn't!) , just an FYI about some changes from EBSCO./

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Laura Solomon, **MCIW, MLS*
/Library Services Manager/
Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
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Subject: 	EBSCOhost Search Tag Changes
Date: 	25 Oct 2010 11:46:46 -0400
From: 	EBSCO Publishing <epaes at epnet.com> <epaes at epnet.com>
To: 	solomola at oplin.org



Dear EBSCO Customer,

Please note that over the next few days, we will begin migrating toward 
a new command line search requirement that all search tags be entered in 
upper-case ONLY, from the current lower, mixed and upper-case options. 
Here are the details of this change:

*Search Tag Changes*
Effective with a software release due this week, EBSCO will treat a 
short list of command line search tags (when entered in lower or mixed 
case) as text. Only UPPER CASE instances of these tags will be treated 
as search tags. The tags that will undergo this change are: *AN, AS, AU, 
BE, DE, DO, DR, GI, IN, IP, IS, LA, RN, SO. *

The EBSCO/host/ search engine will place quotation marks around the tags 
listed above, whenever they are entered in lower or mixed case. 
Therefore, a user will see the quotes in search history and saved 
searches going forward.

For example: if the user enters *an american tragedy*, they will see 
*"an" american tragedy* in their search history.

*Please note:* While users must only enter these specific tags in UPPER 
CASE with this software release (so that they will be treated as tags 
and not text), we highly recommend that all users become accustomed to 
entering ALL command line search tags in UPPER CASE to accommodate 
future additions to the short list of affected tags. The current list of 
tags that will be changed is made up of tags that are not frequently 
used, to cause the least amount of impact on "super" users who are the 
most likely to employ command line searching.


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