New Roger Features

July 17, 2006 on 10:38 am | In Database News |

Roger’s New Look - The Roger interface has been streamlined to reduce the non-Roger content on the page. Keyword/All But Slides remains the default search, but both can still be changed so if you want to search something like Journals & Serials by Title/Journal Title or Electronic Materials by Author. The Advanced Keyword Search option is available, and the More Search Options is now a mouseover drop-down menu under the search bar.

Related Topics - When you do a Keyword search in Roger, you may now see a Related Topics box in the center of tresults page (just above the Result page: 1 2 3 etc. line). This option may also appear at the book record level. Clicking this button will bring up a new window with possible related titles, subjects and/or authors. For example, a keyword search of Earthquake Engineering will offer related subjects like civil engineering, earthquake engineering research, earthquake hazard analysis, earthquake resistant design, International Association for Earthquake Engineering, partitions (building), shear walls, and structural design. All of these are hotlinked and clicking one will rerun your Roger search.

This is still a work in progress, and some Related Topics results will only a few links, or no links at all in some cases. If you have problems with this feature, please contact the Roger team.