What's Inside
 Improved Search
Books in Print® 2.0 offers unprecedented search capabilities. Search everything on the market: books, e-Books, audio books, and videos, through a variety of methods.
The single Google-like search box, allows users to enter keywords, titles, ISBN's, author names, and subjects to locate their desired title.
Coupled with AquaBrowser's word cloud, Books in Print® 2.0 encourages discovery and exploration within the world's largest bibliographic database.
Books in Print® 2.0 continues to offer a powerful advanced search that user's may utilize to pinpoint the titles they wish to find, as well as over 50 faceted refine options that will fine tune your search even further.
FRBRization of Search Results
Search results in Books in Print® 2.0 will be grouped at the title level (FRBR), which allows for quick targeting of the title(s) you are seeking. Each title will contain icons indicating the different formats available for that title (audio, book, digital, video, etc.) as well as a link summarizing the different editions, formats, markets (for GBIP users) and languages available for that title.
Clicking on the title will take you to a secondary search results page which will show you all the editions for that title.
My Discoveries
Books in Print® 2.0 now offers new social library technology built in. My Discoveries offers users the opportunity to create lists, add items to their lists, comment on titles, add tags, rate and review titles. Users will also be able to share all of the aforementioned among the Books in Print® 2.0 community.
Users can contribute their own knowledge and opinions about BooksInPrint materials, benefiting patrons and librarians alike; by reviewing, tagging and networking, the user now takes an active role in BooksInPrint 2.0.
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