ebsco preferences

I can very much see how the emailing and formatting preferences would be useful to a researcher or student with a big project. I am very no frills with respect to databases - I hone in on the basic common features. I guess I'm used to teaching the basics to freshmen and trying to teach concepts that translate across databases. But I am not the end-user.

I find the visual search in Ebsco much less frightening than the concept map in Credo. It's basically a narrowing of topic by subject heading. It is probably an easier way for student to narrow their search. They start with the broad topic and the narrowing terms are given to them.