Release notes for Informit Explore
Minor Release 20/11
Features, improvements, and updates
Explore issue Essays now available in search
When relevant to a search performed, Explore Essays will now appear in search results, presenting as all other content is hosted on the search platform.
Explore Topic Facet in search
To support searching of essays, the 'Topics' filter facet has been added to search for Explore users. Where multiple Explore essays are relevant, users will have the option to filter these essays using the Topics filter. Each essay will be grouped under it's parent subject.
Barcode update for Login
The Institutional login screen has been udpated to include the term 'Barcode', encompassing public library users
Resource Type filter facet
On the search results page, under the 'Resource Type' filter facets, different resource types have now been collapsed under their parent types for easier navigation
Bug Fixes
- Embedded videos within Explore essays have been resurfaced on their relevant pages. E.g: https://search.informit.org/explore/4001
Minor Release 28/10
Features, improvements, and updates
Subject level display of Issue flags
When a 'New' or 'Updated' flag is applied to an issue on Explore, this flag will display alongside it's associated Subject on the:
- Home page
- Subjects drop down menu
- Directory
Bug Fixes
- When a search was performed in Explore between 25/09 - 28/10, the initial results would automatically exclude all results not tagged as 'media' (with the option to remove this filter being made available once the search was executed.
This issue has been resolved, the only filters automatically applied to an Explore search are:- Content which is full-text
- Content which is licensed by / accessible by the users license
- When signing up for Informit using Single sign-on, institutions which share an Entity ID can now all be displayed in the Institutional SSO list (where previously only one option could display per Entity ID).
Minor Release 25/09
Features, improvements, and updates
New Publication filtering options
Explore users have been given more filtering options in their search. These options include filtering by:
- Content I can access
- Full text
- Peer reviewed content
- Open Access content
- Media content
*Note: Content I can access, Full text, and Media are preselected by default
Trial Login page
A new login page has been added for trial users: https://search.informit.org/trial/explore.
This page can be accessed via the banner on the Explore login page: https://search.informit.org/explore
Bug Fixes
- Share options on Explore Issue pages now display hover behaviour upon hover
Minor Release: 27/08
Features, improvements, and updates
Content I have access to
When performing a search from Explore, the only content I have access to and Full Text filters will automatically be applied to restrict the return of abstract only records. These can be disabled by removing them from the search scope.
Login Redirect
If a user logs in from an Explore page at a greater depth than the home page (i.e. /explore/9001), after sign in they will be returned to that page.
New and Updated content flags
Subjects and issues which are either new or have had their content updated will now feature a flag signalling this status for users to more easily indicate the most recent content.
Minor Release 10/07
Features, improvements, and updates
Updated login screen
The UI of the login screen for users has been updated. The primary change is the inclusion of a Trial user banner at the bottom of the page:
When login is selected, the user will be redirected to a login screen designed specifically for Explore Trial users which provides easy access for each trial license by selecting the license and inputting the passcode.
Images for media
All media records on the Informit platform have been updated to display a record specific thumbnail. This thumbnail is drawn from the video player from that record. This is an update from the previous configuration which only displayed the series level image for all records under that series.
This display has been updated for:
- Search results
- Media series / Table of Contents page
- Trending and featured widgets for Informit Explore
Bug Fixes
- Session timeout will no longer trigger after 30 minutes of inactivity while a video stream is running. This has been applied to:
- The Informit platform; and
- Embedded LMS streams
- Number of items displayed in Featured content widgets on Explore issue pages has been configured based on license held by user:
- Users with no video license will now see 10x articles in the Featured Articles widget
- Users with video license will now see 5 x articles in the Featured Articles widget and 5x videos in the Featured Videos widget