As anticipated (see this previous post), the new LexisNexis interface is now live.
If you are initially disoriented by what you see, here's a tip: move from "General" to "News." Then: change the radio button from "natural language" to "terms and connectors" and you'll see a screen that has the standard (and probably more powerful) search functions with which we are familiar.
COERS is taking up the issue of the LexisNexis redesign tomorrow, and as I've learned from Laureen, there's to be discussion about what default screens to set. I don't anticipate much resistance to a request for a default change, but I'll be writing up a short statement for COERS this evening.
This new L-N has many, many nice features, so don't be put off! It's now a 21st-century resource!
A helpful description of the new Smart Indexing Technology is available, too.
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I learned today, via a listserv comment on the new interface that the default settings are not changeable as yet.
Much negative reaction to the primacy given "natural languge" has been vocalized and the L-N designers are now promising to consider a flexible default in an upgrade (though no date was given).
One (perhaps exasperated) L-N representative had, earlier in the day, essentially told listerv participants to grin and bear it and try to understand the necessity of going "against the grain." The old interface, she commented, encouraged the user to "think, then search." The new interface encourages the user to "search, then think." (But is that more efficient, I wonder . . . or just more clicks in the long run?)
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