As reported here and elsewhere, WilsonWeb has tinkered with their database interface. To see/learn more, click here. Our library currently has only one database through Wilson: Education Full Text. As I work closely with our Graduate School of Education, this is the first database that I show our incoming students and go over occasionally with our capstone students as well. I also provide a screenshot tutorial for assistance as well. Well, that means I have had to go in and reedit the tutorial and also get comfortable with the database again before I teach it….next week!!! UGHH!
Here is the updated screenshot tutorial. In the next few months I will be creating some screencasts for the database using Captivate. I also imagine, as this is a somewhat rushed first draft, that I will be tweaking some of this over the next couple of months.
As for the update on the interface? Overall, I like. The frameless environment is nice and the main navigation toolbar up top is a bit better for where my eyes naturally go. Some people might like it the old way on the left hand side of the screen or not even care. Articles are sorted initially by relevance, but I still prefer by date, which you can change to. I also like that you can have either 10, 20, or 50 records per page. Now, how will the novice user like it? Well, somethings do NOT jump out at the user, such as marking records or creating alerts. Obviously, I will be doing a bit more on this in the next few weeks for class, so I might come across some other things of interest.
