EPIC Resources > EBSCO
EPIC offers access to two comprehensive resources from EBSCO: Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre and Mastefile Premier. This page provides database descriptions, links to the title lists of these resources, as well as an update on EBSCO's latest developments.
EBSCO Content
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| Database | Fulltext titles | Summary (from vendor information) |
|---|---|---|
| Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre | 633 | The Australia/NZ Reference Centre combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create the largest collection of regional full-text content available to schools, public libraries, and academic institutions. |
| MasterFILE Premier | 1935 | This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Includes: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 315 reference and travel books full text from 96,600 biographies, 76,000 full text primary source documents, an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. |
What's New with EBSCO?
EBSCO has recently implemented its new ‘EBSCOHost 2.0’ interface. This offers a cleaner look and feel, closer correspondence with a Web search engine experience and some new functionality. EBSCO provide a range of guides to the new version including a Flash tutorial and visual guides. EPIC has also developed new one-page basic guides for the new look Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre and MasterFILE Premier resources.
To ensure you have the optimum configuration of the new interface consider whether the current default search mode settings best fit your user community? EPIC has prepared a short guide to changing EBSCO default search settings to assist amending these if required.