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Hi Leo, We have just moved to Research Pro and are very happy about the flexibility and the tabbed results, though I am finding that altering the layout and display of the search pages can be...cumbersome. We have also decided to completely rethink the way that we use it. Rather than trying to make it do a little bit for all users, we are focusing our efforts on developing it for undergraduates as a simpler method for Full Text article "delivery". We are going to remove library catalogues and many of the Indexes/Abstracts and replace those as many of our Full Text databases and journal services as we can. We get lots of "google like" searches on the catalogue that don't bring up many results, but would probably be much more successful if done in Research Pro. And because federated search is almost by necessity limited to simple search options,we don't think it is really sophisticated enough for postgrads or researchers trying to do very in depth research.Hopefully by really targeting like this, we can improve it's usage. We would really like to start using it for our rapidly expanding e-books collection, as we think that would really ignite usage of them. (Catalogue search for "plato and war" brings up no ebooks that we own; searching on the e-book providers full text search brings up over 200 result in each) However, both of our main provides, Dawsonera and Coutts/MyiLibrary are not yet profiled and "we ain't got the dosh," so it sits on the back burner for now. Best Chad Chad Nelson Library Systems Manager London Metropolitan University On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Leng-Ward, Graeme < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Leo, > > As well as Wellcome's RPro there are a couple of publically accessible > university RPros that I know of that you can try out: > > University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Choose Multi-Search (for Public) at > http://iris.unl.edu/ > This might be a good one to demo to your staff as it shows you what the > layout can look like when you have 50-60 sources on a page - which is > the number you might typically use on an academic RPro page. > > Regent University http://library.regent.edu/ (choose Advanced Search to > immediately see the layout). > This is not a good example of a layout because they have put too many > sources in the one category (Full-text), but it does enable you to > search on more typical academic sources such as JSTOR, Factiva, > ABInform, Project Muse etc. > > Cheers, > Graeme > > -----Original Message----- > From: This list is for current and potential users of the Innopac system > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leo O'Neill > Sent: 26 February 2009 10:54 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Metafind V Research Pro > > Hi all, > > For those sites who have upgraded from Metafind to Research Pro. > > I have requested the upgrade to Research Pro from Metafind. > Unfortunately our Academic Liaison team don't particularly like Metafind > and want to make it (and Research Pro) less visible. I am trying to > persuade them otherwise and have had some extremely positive feedback > from Warwick about Research Pro in comparison to Metafind. What do other > sites who have upgraded think about it? > > Regards Leo > > Leo O'Neill > Head of Library Development > University of Bedfordshire, UK > Tel: 01582 743404 (fax 489325) > [log in to unmask] >