Usage has once again hit a high in October recording 270,500 total accesses. After recovering from the equipment theft and reconfiguring and enhancing the system we have encountered 2 interruptions to the service on the 1 st and 6 th November. On the 1 st the SUN engineers diagnosed a CPU to be faulty and replaced it. Institutional responses were requested by 11 August. Users can now choose between basic and advanced search options - the latter allowing full nested Boolean searching.
Users can also choose whether to rank their search results by relevance, or by date.
Improvements based on users' comments have also been made to the TOC alert and User Favourite functions as part of a general re-design of the interface to make it clearer, and easier to use. The Managing Agent is currently in discussions with them. The interim evaluation report is available on the JISC website.