O.T.: Is there some trick to subscribing to NewspaperArchive?; Readex; ProQuest

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 6/18/07, Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
>
> The latest annoyance (besides the well-known failed system upgrade,
> the new insistence on highlighting keywords at the beginning of KWIC
> paragraphs rather than in the middle, the difficulty in clicking
> through from Google News Archive results, the failure to permit
> revising a search when there are no results, etc., etc.) is user
> cookies that expire in a matter of hours, meaning I regularly have to
> re-login in the middle of complex searches, made all the more
> difficult by a stupid CSS trick and pages that don't cache properly
> in the browser, preventing "back" page actions.

Not sure if the cookie issue has been resolved, but there have a
couple of useful enhancements to Newspaperarchive lately...

* "Refine Keywords" and "Narrow Results" options are now placed in the
right-hand panel -- the options stay on screen even when there are no
results.
* Results can be sorted by date (though only reverse chronologically).

The highlighting in the KWIC paragraph looks different too, but
keywords are still annoyingly placed at the beginning of the
paragraph.


--Ben Zimmer

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