Friday, September 21, 2007

Faceted search interface in JSTOR

I just stumbled across JSTOR's beta for a faceted search interface, which was made available on May 31. I haven't played around with it extensively yet, but after a quick glance at the main page I found some notable things:
  • there are articles with color images in JSTOR (scroll down the search interface to the "Articles with Images" set of facets)
  • you can browse articles by the number of times they've been cited within the JSTOR database
  • you can scan the number of articles in each of the major disciplines covered by (our subscription to) JSTOR; the biggest ones are:
    • History (n=417K)
    • Language and Literature (n=365K)
    • Business (n=325K)
    • Sociology (n=235K)
I didn't see anything on the JSTOR site about when or if this search interface may replace the current one, but there is a way you can send your comments about it to JSTOR.

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