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Brepolis Bibliographies – New Interface

We are excited to announce that the Brepolis team has been working hard to bring you a fully redesigned website that enhances your user experience.

Our upgraded search engine provides more precise results and the improved user interface now ensures a seamless experience for both desktop and mobile users.

Please explore the enhanced functionalities and improved design. Your feedback is invaluable to us as we continue to refine and optimize the interface.

Video 1: new interface in action

Main enhancements:

  • Interface that ensures a seamless experience for both desktop and mobile users. An accessibility review of the interface is ongoing; the target is to align with WCAG 2.1 AA.
  • Dynamic search screen that allows users to add or remove search fields
  • The ‘All fields’ dropdown menu consolidates the wealth of the Brepols’ bibliographies into a single, comprehensive field and brings-up the controlled vocabularies with just a few keystrokes. This new dropdown menu:
    • Features filters and employs a relevance-based sorting mechanism (see below image)
    • Allows the sequential selection of items from the controlled vocabularies
    • Supports traditional free-text entry with Boolean and wildcard searching

Fig. 1: Printscreen of auto-complete list
Video 2: The ‘Search anywhere’ dropdown functions as a search inside the different indexes. The buttons allow to limit the search to one or more indexes
  • Thematic search with listed click-and-pick categories facilitating combined searches across disciplines, areas and centuries (see below image)

Fig. 2: Printscreen of thematic search

  • The hitlist offers comprehensive filter options, empowering users to fine tune and narrow down their search results.

Fig. 3: Printscreen of result page

The new version provides all functionalities you are familiar with as a user.

Feedback:

We encourage users to share their feedback through this link. Your insights are invaluable and will contribute to enhancing the overall user experience.

Frequently asked questions:

A document (PDF) with frequently asked questions can be downloaded through this link.