Monday, August 08, 2005

CSA Illumina Enhancements

Dear CSA Customers,

We are pleased to announce the following recent enhancements to the CSA Illumina platform:

Select Databases
Using the 'Select Databases' option from the Quick Search, Advanced Search, and the Command Search screen, the databases selected for searching are now more visibly prominent. In addition, from the search screens, we have added the factsheet links (the ? icon) to each of the selected databases so that you may retrieve information about the database more easily.

Alerts
The Alerts feature now has a 'Manage Personal Profile' feature which allows you to change the email associated with your account, change the password associated with your account, and the option to delete your personal profile.

Inbound Links
Subscribers to full-text journal collections can now create a link to the full-text of an article that is in HTML format. More information on creating inbound links to full-text content can be found on the following page:
Journal Content Links .

Duplicates
An 'Include Duplicates' option is now available on the Save, Print, Email, and Export to RefWorks function. The 'Include Duplicate's option will only show if duplicates are included in the results.

Full Record View
From the full record view, you may perform a lateral search by selecting the descriptor terms and clicking the 'Go' button. The new search using these marked terms now defaults to AND (to narrow), rather than OR (to broaden).

Short Format
For CSA Illumina databases, the short format shows the title, author, source fields, and also an abbreviated abstract. The following databases have additional fields in the short format view:

ERIC now displays the Accession Number, AN=
Aerospace & High Technology Database now displays the Report Number, RP=
NTIS now displays the Report Number, RP= and the Accession Number, AN=

Tutorials
The CSA Illumina tutorials have been recently updated. The tutorials can be found on the following pages:
Quick Search Tutorial
Advanced Search Tutorial
Command Search Tutorial

Please email support@csa.com if you have any questions.

Amy Mather
Senior Project Specialist, Web Development CSA