MyAthens Enhancements
• New panels and additional panel functionality
• Enhanced panel choice configuration
• Additional resources
• Customisation
– Branding
– Style
Collaboration with Staffordshire
• Demonstration of new functionality produced in collaboration with Paul Johnson, the Subject and Learning Support Librarian from Staffordshire University
Customised Search Panels
• Easily build and configure custom search panels within the Admin Area
– Search engines (Google, Yahoo etc..)S
– Metalib
– Organisation's website (e.g. Staffs website)O
Web Content Panel
• Custom build panels with your choice of content.
– Use the WYSIWYG editor for simple content (text, lists, images)
– Or the HTML editor for more complex content (forms etc…)
Del.icio.us panel
• What is Del.icio.us?
– Social bookmaking service
– Users can store, share and discover web bookmarks.
– Users can tag bookmarks
• How is it relevant to MyAthens?
– Administrators and their users can bookmark non-Athens resources and use the existing Del.icio.us panel to display them in MyAthens
Del.icio.us panel
• So, what's new?
– Users can now filter their own bookmarks by tag
– Simply supply their (or their Organisation's) Del.icio.us username and choose the relevant tag from the drop-down list
Adding Additional Resources
• New functionality to allow administrators to add and allocate additional non-Athens protected resources
• These will then be merged with existing Athens protected resources in MyAthens
Adding Additional Resources cont…
• Additional feeds added via the admin interface.– URL– Title– Description
Adding Additional Resources cont…
• New resources can be allocated to permission sets
– Modify permission set page updated to display Athens resources and additional resources side-by-side
• New resources will be merged with existing Athens protected resources in MyAthens
Restricting users' panels
• New functionality in the Administrator's Interface
– Restrict panels available from MyAthens panel chooser
– Define which panels are shown to users on first login
MyAthens Branding
• Addition of organisations' logos to MyAthens
• Administrators can upload an image via the Panel Options page in the Admin area
Different styles
• Users can change the appearance of MyAthens via View->Page Style menu in their browser
Over to you…
• Any questions, comments or suggestions?