From LexisNexis Academic ListServ regarding new interface

Alistair Morrison:

Dear Colleagues,

Here are my quick answers to the questions about the LexisNexis Academic interface enhancements posted by Kerrie Wilkes and Mary Ellen Pozzebon today. We are still on schedule to release the ungraded interface over winter break. Our target date is now January 8, 2010. Once the release occurs, you will no longer have access to the old interface. All URLs related to LexisNexis will redirect to the new interface. If you have durable URLs pointing to specific documents or titles, they will continue to work but will display in the new interface.

Kerrie’s observation about the use of the old Source Directory and other features in the new interface is absolutely correct. The underlying platform of LexisNexis Academic is not changing. The enhancements we are releasing are limited to adding or improving the design of search forms and replacing the site navigation system. The Source Directory taps into some core functionality of the underlying platform and so we are simply retaining it. We are also retaining the results lists display and clustering. The search forms for Company Dossier and Shepard’s are also in the old style because of the way that these forms need to interact with the Shepard’s and Dossier services.

I will be posting a more formal announcement of the release in the next couple of days and asking you help us get the word out by forwarding it to colleagues who do not follow this listserv.

Best regards,

Alistair


Alistair Morrison, MA, MLS

Product Manager

LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions
7500 Old Georgetown Road, Suite 1300

Bethesda MD 20814

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Email: alistair.morrison@lexisnexis.com
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From: LN Academic list [mailto:ACADEMIC-LIST@LISTS.LNACADEMIC.COM] On Behalf Of Kerrie Wilkes

I actually have a more basic question about the new interface. I was going through the beta and noticed that if you click on certain sections (ex. The Sources link) it is still structured in the “old interface” of files and folders, and is still red and white and not blue like the new beta shows. Is this simply because the beta doesn’t reflect the whole change? Or will the new interface have elements of the old interface as well.

Thanks. -Kerrie


From: LN Academic list [mailto:ACADEMIC-LIST@LISTS.LNACADEMIC.COM] On Behalf Of Mary Ellen Pozzebon

I'm just wondering when the new interface will replace the current one. Thanks.