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Content Update [June 2006]

American Periodicals Series Online is now complete with the exception of one title - Ohio Common School Director (1838). The copy of this title available on microfilm was photographed from a photostat copy that was not of sufficient quality for digitizing. We are currently seeking an alternate source. Now that the collection is complete, we will continue filling gaps as they are discovered.

Title List [June 2006]

APS Online spans 7 million pages of content, from the first American magazines, published in 1741, to the World War II period-200 years of American history as recorded in magazines, journals, and newspapers. A complete title list is available for downloading in Excel format with dates of coverage and OpenURLs: APS Title List.

MARC Records - now available!
[March 2006]

MARC records are now available for all titles that were complete in APS as of early 2005. An upgrade of records for titles added throughout 2005 will become available later this year. You can download APS MARC records from About APS.

Hit Term Highlighting - now available!
[March 2006]

ProQuest hit term highlighting is now available for over 500 titles in APS. Your search terms will be highlighted in yellow, making it easier to find your terms within the articles for the periodicals for which this feature is available. Some of the titles with hit term highlighting are:

• The Cosmopolitan
• The Independent
• Liberator
• Life
• Living Age
• Medical and Surgical Reporter
• Niles' Register
• Outlook

You can find out which titles have hit term highlighting available by keyword searching on "hit term highlighting" from the APS Publication Search.

Interface Update [July 2003]

In 2002, new content and some redigitized periodicals were introduced with improved image quality and searchability. The two different kinds of content are described in About This Collection and are distinguishable in search results:

• Original content: View Page Image is the only viewer option.
• Post 2002 and redigitized content: View Article Image and View Page Map are available. In addition, the View Page Map screen has a link to View Page Image and a browse function that allows users to page through the entire issue of the periodical.
• Throughout 2004 and 2005 original content will be remanufactured to these newer specifications. These titles will have hit term highlighting available as well.

Six additional article type searches are available for new content:

A new APS interface was released in July 2003, with additional search functionality, improved help and search tip screens, as described below.

Basic and Advanced Search Screens

• Additional date range options ("on this date" and "before this date" as well as "from __ to ___")
• Option for having results sorted by relevance as well as reverse chronological.

Advanced Search (the entire screen is completely new to APS Online)

• Link to Search History near the search fields.
• ProQuest-styled boolean options next to search fields (including a more intuitive approach to selecting or suppressing an article type for a more focused search, e.g., suppress "ad" to avoid book advertisements when searching for articles and reviews on an author)
• Option to show more results per screen than the current ten (for quicker review of results).

Results

• Total number of hits (will not require a separate check box) and exact search term show above results.
  
• Ability to sort results by periodical type (scholarly journal, magazine, newspaper, trade publication)
  
• Link for an explanation of Mark List option (to select certain results) more prominent
  
• Ability to jump between result screens to more quickly access results from a certain time period.
  
• Ability to show more results per screen and to re-sort by relevancy or by reverse-chronological order

Publication Search

• Browse lists (for publications, editors, subjects, places of publication, and publishers) offers a scroll option as well as improved search functionality
  
• Search Tips
  
• Access alphabetical List of Publications more swiftly (by first letter)

List of Publications

• Exact coverage per title more prominent
  
• Browse issues list more robust (scroll-able and showing many more issues per screen)

Updated: June 2006

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