ENCORE: A NEW LIBRARY SEARCH TOOL

Encore is a new search tool that allows users to simultaneously search the Samford Libraries' catalog and other online resources available through the libraries. It functions like a search engine, allowing users to locate books, music, videos and DVDs, electronic books, and government documents with a single search.Encore provides users with the following helpful features:

• relevancy ranking
  
• easy to use facets to refine your search
  
• recently added books on your topic
  
• a tag cloud around your topic

Click here to access Encore and try it for yourself.

COMING SOON:
Encore is a new product, and is still in development. We will soon be adding database searching capability to the Encore search tool. When implementation is completed, a single Encore seach will cover the following resources:

• The Samford Libraries' Catalog
• Academic Search Premier*
• Academic OneFile*
• ABI/Inform Global (a subset of ABI/Inform Complete)*
• JSTOR*
• Google
• Google Images
• PubMed