Scanned cover icons guide the user from titles to volumes to issues and finally to articles. Articles are selected from the table of contents page via geographically defined active regions around each article listing. User page through each article, scrolling vertically and horizontally as necessary to view the entire page. Users may also search for specific articles, specifying title and date restrictions in addition to general Boolean full-text queries. Finally, users may optionally specify a list of subscribed titles requesting notification of new issues.
Users are alerted to new content, both subscriptions and alerts, via electronic mail.
The Library and Center for Knowledge Management is evaluating the RightPages system and the user communities reaction. In addition, software engineers within the Center for Knowledge Management are developing prototype client applications for both the Red Sage content and the burgeoning data available on the Internet. This system has served the campus community for approximately 2 years and during that time the information resources available outside the Librarys walls has increased in breadth, depth and complexity. Integrated access to any inter-network service. The Library and Center have worked in concert to develop alternatives to existing tools and design innovative new tools for network information discovery and retrieval.