From Knowledge-Basket – An invitation to take a look at the New Zealand Index on the test TKB website/search engine (and the behind-the-scenes-super-servers)

Estimated timeframe is mid March 2014

If you’ve had a look already you will have found that the search system is lightning-fast and provides a few great new features (load more records, exclude records from the results screen, get results in reverse date order…)

The website is clean and modern, happily adapts itself to mobile devices, and provides a lot more flexibility for adding updates/news/blogs. It’s still in development stages but will soon be put out for wider testing before our official launch.

To re-cap, the New Zealand Index:
• is a collection of 16 indexes and bibliographies (and we’re adding new collections as they become available see below)
• includes many gems – from the NZ Science Indexes to the full text of the NZ Herald Classified Personals (updated daily)
• also includes all of the National Library’s INNZ records
• users can select specific collections or search the whole suite in one go
• continues to be a must-have for New Zealand libraries

Next to be added to the New Zealand Index:
• Waikato Index of more than 4,000 records (thanks to Hamilton Libraries this extensive index will be up and running shortly)
• and… the Publications New Zealand collection (the National Library’s record of publications from, or about, New Zealand)
• and… our databases are a collaborative effort – we’re always keen to explore new relationships with suppliers (i.e. libraries, publishers, indexers, authors)

You can go straight to http://test.knowledge-basket.co.nz and take it from there.