Through Partnership With WebFeat, EBSCO Announces WebFeat Express 3.0 and Other Product Enhancements

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A. – June 22, 2007 – EBSCO is pleased to partner with WebFeat in providing a new series of federated search administration and authentication products. WebFeat will debut this new line of products, including WebFeat Express 3.0, June 23 at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

The latest release of WebFeat’s highly popular Express federated search engine, WebFeat Express 3.0, includes spell-check, as well as integrated Menu Manager and WebFeat Proxy. The WebFeat Express spell-checker joins the Library of Congress and MeSH thesauri already incorporated into the product. WebFeat’s spell-checker supports multiple languages, as well as medical, pharmaceutical, legal, botanical, geographical and scientific/engineering specialty dictionaries. Integrated spell-check, thesauri, topical clustering, relevancy ranking and multiple sort options provide WebFeat users with unparalleled results sorting and search refining capabilities.

WebFeat Proxy™ enables single sign-on for all e-resources accessed through the WebFeat menu, regardless of whether accessed via the WebFeat federated search or through each resource’s own native search interface. WebFeat Proxy is a hosted solution, eliminating the hardware and software expense and labor of locally hosted proxy solutions.

WebFeat Menu Manager™, a portal management system, enables the easy setup and maintenance of e-resource menus, including resource selection, subject category configuration, help text and user interface customization. Menu Manager may either be used in concert with the WebFeat Express federated search engine or purchased as an independent electronic resource manager.

WebFeat Enterprise Administration Manager™ debuts as the industry’s first multi-library e-resource and federated search administration system. The Enterprise Administrative Console enables administrators to easily build an unlimited number of independent WebFeat profiles and import configuration settings from parent systems. Profiles can include different database configurations, subject category organization, catalogs, authentication and user interfaces. The Enterprise Administrative Console can be used with multi-library networks or multi-branch library systems.

"WebFeat Express 3.0, Menu Manager, WebFeat Proxy and Enterprise Administrative Console collectively represent our most ambitious launch of new products and enhancements in the company’s nine year history," said Todd Miller, President and Founder of WebFeat.

About WebFeat
The world’s leading federated search engine, WebFeat is the developer of the WebFeat™ and WebFeat Express™ Search Solutions, used by over 8,000 leading public, academic, government and Global 1000 libraries and information centers.

WebFeat offers next-generation federated search and e-resource management tools to meet the needs of any library. Products include: the WebFeat Express federated search solution, WebFeat Enterprise Edition for multi-library networks, WebFeat Custom API service and SMART™, WebFeat’s usage tracker. WebFeat Menu Manager™ and WebFeat Proxy™ provide tools for access and management of e-resource collections. WebFeat provides multi-language support.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO is the leading service provider for e-journal, e-book package and print subscriptions, a suite of e-resource management tools, full-text and secondary databases and related services for libraries and research organizations. As the “e” agent of the industry, more than half of the subscriptions handled by EBSCO have an electronic component. EBSCO maintains a title database of more than 300,000 title listings and upholds relationships with more than 79,000 publishers worldwide.

EBSCO’s comprehensive solutions include proven systems to consolidate ordering, invoicing, claiming and renewals as well as assistance with licensing and registration requirements for our e-journal and e-package customers worldwide. EBSCO’s 32 Regional Offices, located in 21 countries around the world, serve customers in more than 200 countries and are staffed by information professionals who speak the local language and understand the particular challenges faced by librarians in their respective areas.

WebFeat Contact:
Eddie Neuwirth
WebFeat
+1 888 757-9119
eneuwirth@webfeat.org

EBSCO Contact:
Mandy Hudson
Corporate Communications
+1 205 980-6707
mhudson@ebsco.com