This section helps you renew FirstSearch subscriptions, order additional searches, or request changes to your FirstSearch account. It describes aspects of your account that you control through your FirstSearch orders. Individual accounts Your library may have one or more FirstSearch individual accounts not shared with any other libraries. For each individual account, you receive a unique FirstSearch authorization number. You place the orders for an individual account.
Group accounts subscription account.
For each group account, you receive a unique FirstSearch authorization number only for your library's use of the account. The group coordinator places the orders for a group account. For shared subscriptions, only a certain number of users from all group libraries may use the account at one time. Group accounts also let libraries share subscriptions to one or more Electronic Collections Online journals. Users from all group libraries can access abstracts and full-text articles from those journals.