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Our focus at HW Wilson continues to be enhancing your
search experience.
ReadSpeaker
(text-to-speech)
“My WilsonWeb"
Search Screen Changes
Translate Various
Non-English Language Documents
Language of Interface
“Jump
To” Page Navigation
Cinema Image Gallery Limiters
Current Issues – Social Networking
Biographies – Image and Name into background collection
Co-Branding Administrator’s Module
Miscellaneous Enhancements to WilsonWeb - Improving Visual Features
ReadSpeaker (text-to-speech)
Audio is available for all Full Text HTML records. This
link can be found in the full text popup window for records in the HTML
format (as illustrated below), as well as, in the single view of a full
text HTML record found by clicking on the title of the record. The user
may then select from the Male or Female voice choice, plus save the
record in an MP3 format for later listening.
Listening to records is now possible in biography databases.
“My WilsonWeb"
There are four primary enhancements to the user’s
parallel account called “My WilsonWeb.”
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A new folders area for Saved Articles. Users can
create folders in which to save articles.
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The My Notes area has been added so that users can
save any desired notes to themselves.
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Within the Customize Interface area, users can now
determine the fields they wish to display within records,
eliminating those of no interest.
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Users can now Print, Email, Save, Cite and Export
records within “My WilsonWeb.”
Note: The outline of the Saved Searches, Saved
Alert, etc., as illustrated in the image above, is also now repeated on
the search results page, under “Content Discovery Keys.” A user can
return to their “My WilsonWeb” account, from there.
Clicking on the “Create New Folder” link will return
the following page.
On the Customize Interface page, users can now change
field selections within record types, if desired.
Search Screen Changes
There are several additions to the search screens, as
illustrated below:
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A new Skip Links feature is available for those
using electronic readers. The link will not be visible to most users
(as illustrated below), but will be seen by electronic readers. Its
purpose is to help users skip over repetitive links found on each
page.
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There is a new Text Size zoom feature directly on
the interface for those with visual issues. It results in a
proportional increase to the text size. This is in addition to any
browser zoom feature.
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The Interface Language dropdown has expanded the
language translations to most buttons, links and fields within the
record. The languages currently available include English, German,
French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
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A single “Search” button is now on the
navigational bar. Basic Search and Advanced Search are now choices
above the search box and the user can easily toggle between the two.
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Both the Journal Directory and My WilsonWeb
buttons have been moved to the navigational bar, as illustrated
below.
Translate Various Non-English Language Documents
Available in many WilsonWeb databases are documents in
other languages. Now, German, French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese
articles can be translated into English. This feature is available for
all Full Text HTML formatted records.
Language of Interface
The user can change the language of most buttons,
links and fields within a record into English (the default), German,
French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese. This will be useful for users
that might not use English as their first language.
“Jump To” Page Navigation
This enhancement expands users ability to move within
a results set, if desired. They can now do more than just selecting the
next/previous page or move to the beginning/end of results.
Cinema Image Gallery Limiters
For the convenience of user that use the Advanced
Search Screen, users can now include “Film Records” and/or “Image
Records” as a limiter on their original search.
Cinema Image Gallery now has a new way of displaying
images. In addition to Viewing All Images, users can now elect “View
Slide Show of Image Records” as a format choice. Click the title of the
image to get to the page that offers these image viewing choices.
Current Issues – Social Networking
A new “Comment(s)” link found on the issues/subtopics
pages, will allow users to now post comments about the various issue or
subtopics within the database. After comments have been reviewed as
suitable, they will be posted on the cite, giving all users the
opportunity to see postings.
Biographies – Image and Name into Background
Collection
When a user has gone into the WilsonWeb background
collection for a person (by clicking on the Most Recent Articles” link,
or Books About the person, for example), the persons image, plus
information about search will be echoed at the top of the screen, as
illustrated below.
Co-Branding Administrator’s Module
Greatly expanding the ability of libraries to offer
co-branding icons for the WilsonWeb interface, libraries can now have up
to two co-branding icons for each User Class created.
Miscellaneous Enhancements to WilsonWeb - Improving
Visual Features
Although WilsonWeb is already compliant with Section
508 and other standards, it has now moved beyond the usual requirements
for accommodating users with visual problems. Now included are the
following:
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Modified font (designed for legibility,
accommodating other languages, and improved standardization between
databases).
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Users can conveniently change the font size on the
interface (in addition to the browser’s zoom capabilities).
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Font and Link colors have been unified, eliminating
awkward variations.
Shibboleth access via InCommon, is now available on
WilsonWeb. The WilsonWeb Administrator’s Module now
offers the InCommon Federation as an authentication default setting (“US
Higher Education”), if desired. This is in addition to other Shibboleth
access choices via the UK Federation or SWITCHaai. The WilsonWeb Login
page now offers the link “Shibboleth access via InCommon.” For complete
information, see the document titled
InCommon Federation:
Participant Operational Practices. |
