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  1. What is Yahoo! Search Subscriptions beta?
  2. How will using Yahoo! Search Subscriptions be helpful to me?
  3. What subscription content sources can I search?
  4. Does Yahoo! Search Subscriptions include all the subscription content from participating publications?
  5. Do I need subscriptions to the appropriate online publications in order to use Yahoo! Search Subscriptions?
  6. Are subscription content results displayed differently on the results page?
  7. How do I search only my subscription content?
  8. Does Yahoo! offer any of the subscriptions for purchase?
  9. Who can I contact if I represent a publisher who wishes to participate in the Subscriptions program?
  1. What is Yahoo! Search Subscriptions beta?

    Yahoo! Search Subscriptions beta is a new way to search the subscription content that's important to you. By partnering with publishers, Yahoo! is providing the convenience of a single place to access and find all relevant content, whether it's generally available web content or content from your personal subscriptions.

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  2. How will using Yahoo! Search Subscriptions be helpful to me?

    Yahoo! Search Subscriptions expands your web search experience by enabling you to find relevant information from the web and your online subscriptions. Yahoo! Search Subscriptions also saves you time with a single search that finds relevant information from multiple sources. You can search a combination of generally available content and subscription content, or search a combination of different subscriptions

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  3. What subscription content sources can I search?

    You can search subscription content from a range of publications, including Consumer Reports, Forrester Research, FT.com, IEEE, the New England Journal of Medicine, TheStreet.com and the Wall Street Journal. Yahoo! intends to continually increase the selection of searchable subscription content sources. The program will also include ACM, Factiva and Lexis-Nexis in the near future. The complete list of available sources can be found on the Subscriptions Preferences page.

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  4. Does Yahoo! Search Subscriptions include all the subscription content from participating publications?

    For certain publications, Yahoo! Search Subscriptions will initially include a subset of all available subscription content. Yahoo! intends to continually increase the portion of subscription content that's available during the beta period. The specific subscription content that is initially searchable for each publication is listed below:

    • Consumer Reports - All online content
    • Forrester Research - All online reports
    • FT.com - All articles from the past 60 days
    • IEEE - All technical articles since 1988 and selected content older than 1988.
    • New England Journal of Medicine - All full-text articles
    • TheStreet.com - All articles from 2005
    • Wall Street Journal - All articles from the past 30 days referencing companies that are publicly traded in the United States

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  5. Do I need subscriptions to the appropriate online publications in order to use Yahoo! Search Subscriptions?

    In order to click through to an article listed on the search results page, you need to have a valid subscription that you have secured from the publisher. If you are not logged in to the publisher's site when you click on a search result, you will be prompted for your login information. Otherwise, you will usually navigate directly to the chosen content.

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  6. Are subscription content results displayed differently on the results page?

    Yes. Subscription results, when available, will be displayed above the general web search results, as shown below:


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  7. How do I search only my subscription content?

    You can search just your subscription content from the Search Subscriptions page.

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  8. Does Yahoo! offer any of the subscriptions for purchase?

    No. You must purchase your desired subscriptions directly from the appropriate publishers.

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  9. Who can I contact if I represent a publisher who wishes to participate in the Subscriptions program?

    If you represent a publisher who is interested in participating in the program, please fill out the form on the Publisher Interest page, and a partner manager from Yahoo! will contact you.

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