Accessibility
Jisc's accessibility statement
Jisc is committed to delivering services that meet the needs of our users. The Historical Texts and Journal Archives services have been designed with web standards in mind and aim to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/) and be compliant to the A and AA standard wherever possible.
Authentication
Historical Texts
Authentication is via the UK Access Management Federation or IP address range.
Journal Archives
Authentication is via the UK Access Management Federation or IP address range.
Federated searching
Historical Texts
Federated Searching is not currently available with Historical Texts.
Journal Archives
Federated Searching is not currently available with Journal Archives.
Full text linking
Historical Texts
Each item in Historical Texts has a unique URL that can be used to link directly to that item.
Journal Archives
Journal Archives is OpenURL Version 0.1 compliant. Each journal article also has a unique URL that can be used to link directly to that item.
Marc records
Historical Texts
MARC Records are available for nearly all the items in Historical Texts. Please contact the Historical Texts service desk to obtain them.
Journal Archives
MARC records are not available for Journal Archives items.
Personalisation
Historical Texts
The service uses cookies to remember some user preferences. For example if a user opens both side panels in the viewer, these will automatically be open the next time they view an item from the same machine. For users accessing via UK Federation authentication, there is a My Texts feature enabling them to save searches and save records for future sessions.
Journal Archives
No personalisation features are available.
Post search options
Historical Texts
After performing a search, a range of filters can be used to narrow the focus of results. A histogram displaying the date range distribution of results is shown above the results list. Searches and individual items can be saved to be retrieved again at a future point if required. Texts can read on screen using the viewer or they can be downloaded. Entire books can be instantly downloaded as a pdf. Historical Texts also offers the ability to download single images of the pages in JPEG format and users can download bibliographic information in RIS format for use with reference manager tools.
Journal Archives
After performing a search, a range of filters can be used to narrow the focus of results. Users can also browse through the journal titles, volumes and issues if they prefer. Journal articles can be viewed online, or downloaded as a pdf.
Search options
Historical Texts
Standard and advanced search options are offered to users of the Historical Texts service. The standard search box allows users to input complex searches. Alternatively, users can take advantage of a wide range of advanced search features that allow for straightforward searching of specific fields, including: Author, Title, Bibliographic Reference Number, Publisher, Subject, Genre and Place of Publication. Additionally, Historical Texts offers variant spelling and fuzzy search options, so that items are not missed by spelling variation and/or poor Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
Full details on all the search options can be found on the Historical Texts help pages.
Journal Archives
Standard and advanced search options are available, allowing users to search by Author, Article and Journal Title, Volume, Year and Date. Journal Archives also includes the option to search by DOI. The search box supports complex searches, and more help on all the search options can be found on the Journal Archives help pages.
Usage statistics
Historical Texts
The statistics portal is currently in development.
Journal Archives
The statistics portal is currently in development.
