{"id":215,"date":"2015-10-26T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/?p=215"},"modified":"2015-12-18T20:21:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T20:21:48","slug":"interface-changes-to-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/2015\/10\/26\/interface-changes-to-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"Interface changes to Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following interface changes to Scout are proposed:<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: If you are interested in previewing these changes, an\u00a0EDS profile<\/a>\u00a0has been set up for that purpose.<\/p>\n

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  1. Discipline-limited searching will display in the search options\u00a0section. \u00a0Discipline-limited searching allows users to easily narrow their search by broad subject areas. This EBSCO support article<\/a> provides some additional detail on\u00a0how disciplines work in EBSCO Discovery Service. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Scout will default to displaying 20 results per page. As some\u00a0students do not leave the first page of results, we hope that increasing the number of results per page will expose them to a greater number of\u00a0resources. Increasing the number of results per page should also make paging through\u00a0results less burdensome.<\/li>\n
  3. A few months ago, EBSCO introduced an Associated Press news “carousel” that appears when a query matches videos in the Associated Press video library.\"APNewsCarousel\"<\/a>By default, this carousel displays close to the top of the results page, and also displays regardless of the Source Type(s) the user has selected. Going forward, the AP news carousel will display at the bottom of the first page, and only for appropriate Source Type facets (i.e., All, News or Video).<\/li>\n
  4. About a month ago, EBSCO changed Search Options to display by default with\u00a0our Basic Search. \u00a0We have decided to restore\u00a0the Search Options to being hidden by default. \u00a0The visibility of search options can still be toggled on and off by clicking “Search Options” beneath the search bar. \u00a0\u00a0Update: <\/strong>Based on feedback we’ve received, this change has been removed from what will be added to Scout on the 28th. \u00a0Thank you to those who took the time to provide their feedback! \u00a0\"ScoutSearchOptions\"<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you have any feedback on the above\u00a0interface changes, please don\u2019t hesitate to post a comment below. In the absence of any concerns about these changes, they will be added to\u00a0the live version of Scout the afternoon\u00a0of Wednesday, October 28th. Feedback on any other changes\u00a0is also appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The following interface changes to Scout are proposed: Note: If you are interested in previewing these changes, an\u00a0EDS profile\u00a0has been set up for that purpose. Discipline-limited searching will display in the search options\u00a0section. \u00a0Discipline-limited searching allows users to easily narrow their search by broad subject areas. This EBSCO support article provides some additional detail on\u00a0how … Continue reading Interface changes to Scout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}