Tuesday 2 March 2010

Resultless Search All Resources

There's an issue that's arisen with 'Search All Resources'. Somewhere in the guts of WebFeat (the software behind 'Search All Resources'), some settings pertaining to how WebFeat and EBSCO databases talk to each other seem to have been reset. This means that when searching EBSCO databases, no results will be returned. In WebFeat, click the EBSCO database link to go and search individual databases, and you have no problems retrieving results (unless you search for something like "three legged hamsters"). Other, non-EBSCO databases work fine. To summarise: searching EBSCO Databases in 'Search All Resources' won't work, so search the individual databases instead, ok? We'll let you know when normal service is resumed. If you like searching multiple databases at once, then don't forget the forthcoming EBSCOHost Integrated Search (login with your student number and date of birth).

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