Content delivery of the American Antiquarian Society’s (AAS) serials collection is designed in a new format called METS/ALTO, an XML object model that supports product features such as keyword highlighting and the identification of article page zones for display within the new EBSCOhost® Content Viewer application. The EBSCOhost Content Viewer supports the “serendipitous discovery” important to historians using rare historical materials. Users of digitized historical collections now have unprecedented ease of navigation with the following capabilities:

• Zoom in and pan across documents.
• Use “Fuzzy-match” searching with distinct fuzzy- and exact-keyword-match highlighting styles compensate for not-yet-standardized spellings in 17th and 18th century materials.
• Quickly identify illustrative content (e.g. maps, portraits, charts, graphs, etc.).
• Browse multiple issues in a volume without leaving the Content Viewer interface.
• Save persistent links to specific pages.
• Print and save articles or pages as full-text-searchable PDFs.
• Create, edit, save and print notes related to a particular page or article. (Notes retain the citation and page information of the viewed item and persistent links back to the page.)
• Access the machine-generated text from these historical documents using screenreader software for visually-impaired users.