First of several changes to EEVL:
EEVL, The UK gateway to quality engineering information on the
Internet: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ will be making various enhancements
to its services over the coming weeks, all of which are designed to
make the services easier to use.
The first change is already in place, in the form of a new design for
the Search the EEVL Catalogue page: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/search.html
EEVL's Catalogue now contains details of, and links to, nearly
4,000 quality Internet resources in engineering, and the new design
is aimed at making the choice of filters for limiting searches easier
and more transparent. By default, all resources are searched, but by
clicking on boxes, one or more filters (such as E-journals,
Databases, or Companies, etc.) can now be used to limit the search to
particular types of resources. As before, searches can be restricted
to UK, or non UK resources, but now there are also options which
allow Auto Stemming and Phrase Searching. Boolean searching is, of
course, still possible, using AND, OR, and NOT, but if no operator is
used, the default is now for search terms to be OR'd. This brings
EEVL more in line with some of the popular search engines and should
ensure that a higher proportion of searches produce results. Search
results are now ranked according to our own logarithm which is
designed to ensure that the most relevant resources appear high up in
the results pages, and results pages can now be viewed twenty at a
time, with easy navigation to particular sections. A new feature is
the EEVL Choice Site category which is allocated to particularly
useful or substantial sites. We have highlighted EEVL Choice Sites
through the use of a small graphic. For those who prefer the old
search interface, a link is still available from the EEVL home page.
In the near future several further enhancements will be made to the
EEVL service, which I will report upon once they are in place.
Try out the new features - feedback is welcome.
Roddy MacLeod
EEVL Services Manager (Information)
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