Subscription services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that its EBSCO A-to-Z (A-to-Z) service now offers enhanced Unicode searching, browsing and sorting to meet the needs of its international customers. Customers can now find results for non-English language titles that have been added to their A-to-Z title list.
As a standard, 'Unicode' provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the programme or language, allowing the characters of any language to be represented electronically. With A-to-Z's Unicode browsing, the alphabetic menu can be customised to include an alternate alphabet - a much anticipated enhancement for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Russian customers.
In addition, users have the ability to add titles to A-to-Z in their native language, allowing full customisation of the title list to fit their local language needs. With Unicode sorting, titles can be sorted properly for any language, instead of makeshift categories for unusual foreign characters.
EBSCO A-to-Z is a locator tool listing all of a library's e-resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases, publisher packages and e-books. It can include print titles and other local resources a user chooses to upload. A-to-Z is available in 15 languages. This includes Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Latin American Spanish.
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