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I seem to have missed the image search altogether and have been relying on captions to find images ever since JSTor severed relations with ARTstor. Just as bad from my point of view is that when you open JSTOR you are told you are searching for "Journals, primary sources, and NOW books." Maybe my library has not subscribed to the books component--I just posed the question on our Refnews list. I can not find books or pamphlets. Has anyone been successful in this regard? Ruth Thomas, Boston University Quoting Anne Haas <[log in to unmask]>: > I've passed this icon and image search info on to our collections > librarian at a meeting of library liaisons this morning, and learned > that one of the librarians has already gotten an email regarding the > icon change and confusion. > Hope JSTOR is listening! > > Anne > > Anne B. Haas > Art Librarian > Bowdoin College > > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:53 PM, "Susan Davi" > <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > Lee and Janine - > > Thanks for your thoughts on this. I think that this change (and > there are other changes as well) are worth complaining to JSTOR about > either as a group or individually. I am the administrative contact > for JSTOR at UD and am in regular contact with my JSTOR person asking > questions and making comments about the site. > > I am guessing that this change occurred on November 12 when JSTOR > launched ebooks as well as their usual fare of journals. Changes to > the site occurred due to the addition of ebooks, and there was no > information or notification about these changes. > > One particularly problematic change (for me anyway) is the icons > which are now being used. JSTOR removed the green icon which > indicated full access and now only uses gray icons which indicate > either no access or partial access. So, the user is supposed to > understand that if there is no icon, then full access is available. > For me, this is not intuitive. Users (here at UD) like to see green > icons indicating full access. JSTOR's decision to change the icons > means that they (JSTOR) are now advertising what we do NOT have > access to instead of what we DO have access to. I find that > irritating. > > Now that you have discovered the loss of the "image search feature," > it makes me wonder what else got changed that we don't know about. > > My two cents. > Susan > > On 11/26/2012 8:25 PM, Henri, Janine wrote: > Thanks for bringing this up Lee. > > I always showed the ‘results with images’ limiting option in JSTOR as > a great way for users to browse articles for illustrative content. I > hoped that the disappearance of this feature was just a blip when I > did not see it last week and am very sad to read that this was a > deliberate option. It may have been ‘buggy’ but it was a very special > boon to our researchers. Searching the caption is not the same thing > at all. > > I am also disappointed that there was no announcement from JSTOR > about this change. (And now I have to revise my various LibGuides > where I’ve included the statement “Links on the search results pages > allow you to quickly display 'Only Results with Images.'”) > > I would support either a group or a Society effort to voice our > disappointment. Let me know how I can help. > > Best wishes, > > Janine Henri > Architecture, Design, and Digital Services Librarian > and Interim Resource Librarian for Urban Planning > UCLA Arts Library > 1400 Public Affairs Building > Box 951392 > Los Angeles, CA 90095-1392 > > tel: 310-206-4587 > fax: 310-825-1303 > email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lee > Sorensen > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:56 AM > To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [ARLIS-L] JSTOR dissolves Image-search feature > > Colleagues: > > Some of you may have noticed that JSTOR no longer offers its > limit-results-by-image feature. I for one found this very helpful as > pictures in journal articles frequently contained details or unique > views of works that were not available elsewhere. I queried JSTOR on > this and their response is in part below. While they haven’t gotten > rid of the feature, it’s a lot more difficult for our visual > researchers to both find and use. The new version limits key-word > image searching to the caption. While this is less “buggy” for > JSTOR, is much less useful for most searchers. The old version > allowed broader searches, e.g. articles on Amiens, and then users > could scan images. Now, users must know pretty much what the exact > caption of the photo is to find an image. > > Does anyone or the Society feel that this should be addressed to > JSTOR by its users? > > Lee Sorensen > Duke University > > > After doing some digging with my coworker, we've discovered that > while the original format for image searching is gone, the ability to > search for them is not. We've learned that the original format wasn't > always accurate, and often buggy, which is why it was done away with > in our most recent update. > > In order to search within images now, you will need to use the > Advanced Search page. The drop-down menus to the right of the search > boxes now have a "caption" option. This will return content with > images and present you with similar - yet more accurate - search > results. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> For > information about joining ARLIS/NA see: > http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file > requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ARLIS-L > Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org > Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> For > information about joining ARLIS/NA see: > http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file > requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ARLIS-L > Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org > Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > -- > Susan A. 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