In order to provide a consistently satisfactory user experience, in which users of the Library’s research databases (and the Summon discovery service) don’t face dead-end blank screens when trying to reach articles and books, the Library will deactivate Index-enhanced Direct Linking (IEDL) in our link resolver (360Link). What does this mean exactly? Index-enhanced Direct Linking (IEDL) is […]…Continue Reading More Consistent Linking from Library Databases
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Watch for this when accessing full text articles
Next time you click on a “Full text online” link in Summon that looks like thisyou may see a screen that looks like thisAny reasonable person would suspect something is terribly wrong. The fact is that, somewhat unfortunately, a link that says “Click this link to display full-text in a new window” no longer displays […]…Continue Reading Watch for this when accessing full text articles
Friday links – February 3, 2012
Whitepaper on Improving the discoverability of scholarly content in the twenty-first century Related to the paper above: Rediscovering Discovery — How We Find Things, and Its Implications Unrelated to the previous two papers! Book Burning, 213 BC–2011 AD – from the … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Friday links – February 3, 2012
Summon Video Tutorial
Wondering how to search Summon, the library’s new default search tool on the library homepage? Watch this short video tutorial that will show you many of Summon’s features using an example search. Want to know more about Summon? See our … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Summon Video Tutorial
Summon interruption Friday September 16th
From Serials Solutions: The Client Center will have a downtime from 8 p.m. Friday, Sep. 16, to 5 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17. During most of this downtime, your 360 Link service will remain available to your patrons. However, 360 Link (as well … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Summon interruption Friday September 16th
(not) Finding Fuente Academica articles in Summon
For reasons that are difficult to explain in a few sentences, we are aware that links to articles in Summon to a full-text database of Spanish-language resources called Fuente Academica Premier are not working. We have reported the problem, and … Continue reading →…Continue Reading (not) Finding Fuente Academica articles in Summon
Welcome to our summer students
Welcome to the summer Language School and Breadloaf students. Find useful tips on the LIS pages (go/lis), (go/lib), and (go/helpdesk) Use (go/subjectguides) for links to databases, CDs, video and more Begin your research, searching for articles across both databases and … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Welcome to our summer students