Hi folks, just a quick update.
Beta seems to be mostly working, although search term highlighting is sometimes intermittent, so we're investigating that.
We've been getting some very useful feedback, but some people have been asking us questions but then not leaving any contact details! So, here are a few quick answers to some things you might have noticed or not spotted, that have come up a few times in feedback on the new site.
Search Previews:
Just above your lists of search results, to the right, is the "Show preview" button. I recommend using this unless you have a slow connection.
Highlighting:
This works great for some people, not at all for other people, and intermittently for some people...sigh. We're working on it, we might have an updated version of this on the site by the middle of next week (that's my guesstimate).
Copyright:
Some feedback querying why some items (eg 1900's newspaper articles) are (probably) out of copyright, but still have copyright statements - correct, this is not an error. Sometimes those items from eg 1901 may still be covered by someone's copyright, hence a statement that provides some guidance on use is relevant.
Results consisting of just a headline:
Yup, we have lots of this on the current Papers Past site as well as the beta - in these cases, use the link near the top of the page labelled "Page 2" (or "Page 4", or whatever the page happens to be) to get a view of the arrangement of the whole page, this will let you find the text associated with the headline and click on it.
That's all for now - if any of you good folks have thoughts/tips/feedback, let me know!
