The 2009 ICPSR Web Site

What’s new? New search engine Study home page New download page Revised navigation Notification via RSS Expanded variables database Blogger integration New visual design

New Search Engine Built using SOLR/Lucene Allows for faceted searching No more limit of 500 results Date searching of multiple fields Same search rules for data holdings, bibliography, and variables database

Faceted Searching Easy to shift between refining and expanding search results Unlikely to hit “no results found” page as facets provide an indicator of the size of your result set Seamless integration with keyword searching

Study Home Page Concise summary of study Emphasis of key points, such as data being restricted, housed externally, or available only to ICPSR members Concise list of all options for next steps (examine related materials, download, get more information, perform online analysis, etc.)

New Download Page No more “data cart” as users only download one study at a time Visual indication of which datasets have which formats Warning about data that is restricted or limited to ICPSR members Table-based display Options grayed out based upon IP/account access and member-only data

Revised Navigation What’s changed? –Data  Find & Analyze Data –Courses & Learning Tools  Teaching & Learning –Our Research  Partners & Projects What’s new? –Deposit Data & Findings –Digital Curation –Partners & Projects (projects, partner sites, funding agencies, other partnering organizations)

Notification via RSS Use any RSS Browser (such as Google Reader or Yahoo) to receive custom-created notifications, whether they be as broad as “any new studies” or as narrow as searches that match a user-created query. RSS replaces ICPSR’s old notification services and gives the user a more robust, flexible solution. FAQs on RSS are available on our site.

Expanded Variables Database Previously 69 studies; now 1300 studies, over 1.2 million variables. Study release process modified to allow studies to go into the variables database upon initial release. Integration with study home page so users can search/browse variables in a study. Series filtering, so users can search/browse variables in all studies in the series.

Blogger Integration Announcements now entered into Blogger and displayed on ICPSR Web site via RSS. FAQs also moved into Blogger. Ease of data entry; quick deployment to multiple sites; quick archiving of stale posts. Ability to experiment with user comments on FAQs or announcements; possible expansion to allow for study-specific dialogue.

New Visual Design Refresh of old design. Creation of third column used to provide additional information. Prominent sub-navigation for each section; rollover to show sub-navigation “Search for Data” present on every page

Forthcoming… Additional facets for studies, bibliography, and variables Member institution/OR search Integration of teaching materials in study home page list of options Better integration of series information into the search and study displays