1. The Country Finder feature has been renamed World Map and now offers an even greater number of options to explore global issues geographically, including the ability to browse by topic and zoom into regional and local-level results. This enhances the map's existing ability to browse by country and region.
A few helpful hints:
* The map no longer automatically opens with set pins. Users will need to use the Map Options navigation to select a topic, country or region. The map also enables search. To locate country information:
- Users may click "Browse Countries" in the drop-down box in Map Options and select the appropriate country.
- Alternatively, users may:
- Select "Browse Region"
- Click the appropriate region (for example North America)
- Click the appropriate country pin
2. Libraries may configure the order of the content types on portal pages. For example, an academic institution can designate "Academic Journals" to display first versus "Global Viewpoints," which is the default display setting. This is done using your IT Config account.
3. Users may search within a portal. Look for the 'Search within this Portal' option below the video/image multimedia section on each portal page.
Other enhancements include:
4. Banner links -- including Educator Resources and Research Tools -- have been reorganized for easier access and consistency. New is the addition of a Marked List button.
5. Many World News sources on the homepage include colorful logos representing a particular publication.
6. Reference sources now have cover images that can be viewed by mousing over them.
7. Summary text -- the first few lines of individual documents -- now display on portal and results pages to help users evaluate the relevance of these documents to their research.
8. Updated ReadSpeaker text-to-speech player.
9. 'Share' feature that enables posting portal page or document links to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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