[HeinOnline listserv] HeinOnline Enhancements

Thu Sep 7 16:29:34 UTC 2006

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As mentioned in the new content release announcement last week, below you will find information about several enhancements which will be launched within the next few days in HeinOnline (  <http://heinonline.org/> http://heinonline.org) that will surely increase the efficiency of your research experience.  A brief video has been created to highlight these new enhancements and can be found at:   <http://www.projectstreamer.com/users/wshein/HOLEnhancements/HOLEnhancements2006.html> http://www.projectstreamer.com/users/wshein/HOLEnhancements/HOLEnhancements2006.html

The first enhancement will be seen as soon as you log into HeinOnline.  A new "Quick Links" page will be added that will allow researchers to enter a citation to a page within a particular library module and be delivered directly to the page in need.  This new feature means that you will no longer need to first go into a particular library module, locate the Citation Navigator box, and then enter the citation to go to a page.  However, if you would still like to go to a particular library module to browse its' contents, you may simply click on the name of the library module and you will be directed to the first page of that module, just as you traditionally would have been in the past.  Additionally, one can search the library module by clicking on the "Search" button which will appear to the right of the library module name.  This new feature should dramatically increase your access to content in HeinOnline.

The next enhancement is something that the HeinOnline development team has been working on for a number of months...highlighted text on a page! As many of you know, HeinOnline is great for accessing content in its' original page format, but until now, locating a specific word or phrase on a page after conducting a full-text search involves reading through the page to locate the word or phrase.  We are pleased to announce that we are currently adding the highlighted text feature across the entire collection of 21 million pages in HeinOnline.  Because of the size of HeinOnline, we need to reprocess much of the content to allow this wonderful enhancement to work effectively in all HeinOnline library modules.  Therefore, some of your current search results will provide the "highlighted text on the page" feature, and for those that do not, we will include a note at the bottom of the page to indicate the feature is not yet operational.  In the coming months, we will continue to expand the highlighted text feature across the entire HeinOnline collection.

The last enhancement to report also involves the search results in HeinOnline.  Full-text search results lists will now include the section title and author (i.e. article title and author) where the search terms appear in addition to the page numbers and text surrounding the word or phrase being searched.  This information will appear on the second level results list for a full-text search.   This enhancement should help researchers to more readily narrow their search results based on the article title or author.  

The above certainly adds a great deal of new features that I hope you and your researchers will enjoy.  Please forward this news along to as many people as possible within your organization.  

As always, your questions and comments are welcomed and can be sent to me at the email indicated below.

Thank you for supporting HeinOnline.  We look forward to adding more content and enhancing the product even more in the near future.

Sincerely,

Brian Jablonski

Director, Marketing & Publications

William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

1285 Main Street

Buffalo, New York 14209-1987

800-828-7571 ext. 141

716-883-8100 fax

b_jablonski at wshein.com

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