Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Forum on new LexisNexis Academic interface

At today's ISD meeting, I promised that I would post a message to start a conversation about the new interface for LexisNexis Academic. Since this is one of most heavily used databases, it seems like a good idea for us to be as expert about the new interface as possible before we start to get questions from students and faculty.

Many of us have already looked at it and have a good idea of what's new. Some of us also have questions about changes. Please post your comment to this blog post (you can't do this from your email but instead need to go to the blog itself and click "comments" at the bottom of the post) about one or more of these items:
  • You are at a department meeting that you're a liaison to and have one minute to tell faculty members there about the 3 most important things about the new interface. What are you going to say?
  • What features are you trying to figure out?
  • What new unique content is now in LexisNexis Academic?
  • What unique content is now gone?

1 comment:

Stephen Francoeur said...

Question:

How much can we rely on the "keywords (Index Terms)" that can be found in the Power Search tab? Are these index terms assigned by humans or by some some automated indexing system? In the current LexisNexis Academic, I found indexing terms pretty much useless. Is what we're seeing in the new interface just old wine in a new bottle?