Development Roadmap

The onging development roadmap for JISC Historic Books can be found below.

The initial roadmap was developed by taking on board all the feedback received via email, from comments made in JISC workshops, and meetings with librarians as well as requests to the helpdesk.

An Advisory Board has now been setup for JISC Historic Books and they are guiding the development of the platform on behalf of the community. To find out more about the JISC Historic Books Advisory Board, view the membership list and read their meeting presentations please see the JISC eCollections website.

If you would like to suggest an enhancement please email the helpdesk at: historicbooks@mimas.ac.uk.

Coming Soon

These are features that we are currently working on and plan to release over the next few months.

Status	Enhancement
Testing	Support pages To make it easier to find information we're currently re-designing the JISC Historic Books support pages to integrate them more fully with the search interface itself. We're also expanding the collection details, adding introductory videos as well as hints and tips for searching. Here's a sneak preview of the new homepage design:
Coming soon	Integration with Resource Discovery Tools For example, Primo, Summon and Ebsco EDS (dependant on Proquest agreements with these suppliers).

Status

Enhancement

Testing

Support pages

To make it easier to find information we're currently re-designing the JISC Historic Books support pages to integrate them more fully with the search interface itself.

We're also expanding the collection details, adding introductory videos as well as hints and tips for searching.

Here's a sneak preview of the new homepage design:

Coming soon

Integration with Resource Discovery Tools
For example, Primo, Summon and Ebsco EDS (dependant on Proquest agreements with these suppliers).

Already Released

Date	Enhancement
28 Nov 2012	Results enhancements • Marked list to save, export or email search results records • Results sorting by author and title • Results page indicates plain text availability
05 Sep 2012	PDF upgrade Faster file generation for larger files, improved PDF image quality and the addition of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) within the PDFs.
20 Aug 2012	Web interface enabling librarians to download their institutions usage statistics.
Mar 2012	Stable URLs. These provide permanent URLs to navigate directly to individual pages within a book as well as to the results list for title or author search.
18 Jan 2012	Stop words (words such as and, or, and the etc) included in a 'with the exact phrase' search (advanced search).
18 Jan 2012	Search on a single year (advanced search).
14 Nov 2011	Phase 1 of Advanced Search feature (including search by title, author, bibliographic reference number, place of publication, imprint).
14 Nov 2011	Usability enhancements (some came in July 2011). These enhancements are based on a usability study carried out in May 2011.
14 Nov 2011	Download individual pages, a range of pages or a whole book in PDF format.
14 Nov 2011	Download citation information in RIS, RefWorks, Bibtex formats.
01 Aug 2011	Search by book or by page.
01 Aug 2011	Many viewer enhancements including the ability to search within a book.