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FirstSearch available in Simplified Chinese language

Managing FirstSearch

Setting up "Virtual Catalogs"

Patron authentication through NCIP

Creating custom library groups

Setting up a link to Serials Solutions' Journal Linker

Multiple OpenURL links

Customizing the ILL Request Form

Enabling the FirstSearch/ILL link

Enhancements to WorldCat library access program

Suppressing the ILL icon in FirstSearch

Custom library links in FirstSearch interface

Ordering full-text documents from InfoTrieve

Adding links to OpenURL servers

Controlling FirstSearch sessions

Display all libraries

Customizing the FirstSearch interface

Setting timeouts

Setting up links for full text

Using

"Find Items About" feature

Holdings display enhancements

Union List data now available

Search term suggestions available

Subtype limiters now available to refine WorldCat search results

Enhanced search options and search results displays in WorldCat

WorldCat searches can be sorted by library holdings

"Session Timeout Alert" feature now available

Link to holdings displays from brief records in FirstSearch

New software for record export

ArticleFirst tables of contents available from WorldCat

More WorldCat linking options available

Search results displays in WorldCat

Setting up the Resource Sharing Staff Interface

Z39.50 access

Union List data now available

View Z39.50 library catalogs from within FirstSearch

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