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The navigation on the top of the homepage provides a variety of options to access content on the site, including Explore By and Browse Collections functions.
The basic search bar appears below the main navigation for quick and easy searching across the site.
Below the search bar is an image banner with a link to learn more about the platform, followed by a short description about the Human Kinetics Library. Below the description, the tiles on the left offer different ways of exploring the platform whilst the New in Focus on the right leads to a page that talks about what is new on the platform.
At the bottom of the page, you will find the Topic in Focus. Click the button to read about the current featured content. Below this is a slider of sample titles to browse from the Human Kinetics Library collection.
Selecting Human Kinetics Library Core Collection from the Browse Collections dropdown menu will bring you to the overview page for the collection. Here you will find a description, a promotional video, and various links to browse content in the collection.
Selecting Human Kinetics Dance Technique from the Browse Collections dropdown menu will bring you to the overview page for the Human Kinetics Dance Technique collection. Here you will find a description, a promotional video, and various links to browse content in the collection.
Selecting Human Kinetics Physical and Health Education from the Browse Collection dropdown menu will bring you to the overview page for the Human Kinetics Physical and Health Education collection. Here you will find a description, a promotional video, and various links to browse content in the collection.
Selecting Human Kinetics Health Care in Sport and Exercise from the Browse Collection dropdown menu will bring you to the overview page for the Human Kinetics Health Care in Sport and Exercise collection. Here you will find a description, a promotional video, and various links to browse content in the collection.
Selecting Human Kinetics Strength and Conditioning from the Browse Collection dropdown menu will bring you to the overview page for the Human Kinetics Strength and Conditioning. Here you will find a description, a promotional video, and various links to browse content in the collection.
Explore By in the top navigation menu provides options to access the content by Sport/Activity or Topic.
Clicking on any option leads to an alphabetical list for browsing. The numbers in brackets next to each term show the amount of content aggregated under each term. Clicking on any term will lead to a results page for all the content on the site that has been tagged with the term.
The results page offers further filter options in the left hand column.
Browse Collections offers options to browse the Human Kinetics Library Core Collections or the different collections on the platform.
To search, type your search term into the search bar at the top of each page. Clicking the magnifying glass button or pressing return will take you to the results page.
If there are any relevant image results related to your search, they will show up as the first results. Click on an image to be brought to the image page. Click on ‘more images’ to see more results.
The search page then lists other results in the order of most relevance. It can be reordered by title or date, ascending, or descending. The standard results page shows 10 results but can be adjusted to 5 or 20 results. The search results will show the chapter, author, and eBooks title, with a preview snippet of text that includes the search term with the search term appearing in bold.
Search results can be refined using the left-hand column by Content Type, Topic, and Sport/Activity. At the bottom of the left-hand column, you can choose to show all content. The default is to only show content which you have full access to.
Navigate to the desired results by clicking on the chapter title at the top of each result.
To the right of the search bar, click on the Advanced Search button.
Enter your search term in the search bar with the option to refine by Title, Author/Editor/Creator, Summary/Abstract, Category, or Identifier. Enter additional search terms using “Add Field” with search functions of “AND,” “OR,” and “NOT” and the same options listed above.
Further refine results by Date Range by Year and Content Type, including Audio, eBooks, eBooks Chapter, Image, and Video.
Use the same search results functions on the search page to refine results further and access results.
Selecting Ebooks from the Browse Content dropdown menu, navigates to a list from which specific ebooks can be selected. Ebook pages show the book title, author, copyright information, DOI, ISBN, edition, place of publication, and online publication date in the left-hand column. The book cover is displayed in the right-hand column.
The copyright information is followed by a search bar allowing for searching within the book. There is also a table of contents with links to jump to specific sections and chapters of the ebook. The pagination in the table of contents matches the print edition.
The left-hand column of the chapter page displays the book cover, author, copyright year and imprint, and the search within this book function, followed by Subject information and extensive Related Content links.
The main right-hand column shows the chapter title, DOI and page range of the chapter, followed by a linked table of contents for easy movement to other chapters within the book, following by the full text of the chapter. Hovering over the chapter text will show the corresponding page numbers at the appropriate breaks to match print editions of books.
Using the “Search book” function from the book or chapter page will bring up all references to the search term within each chapter of the ebook.
On each content page, including ebook chapters, the left-hand column of the page shows subject information, including Content Type, and Topic. All content on the site is tagged using these terms, and clicking on any of the listed links will lead to all content tagged with that term.
Below Subjects in the left-hand column is Related Content. All content on Human Kinetics Library is indexed according to a powerful taxonomy. The taxonomy informs the links that appear in this section, displaying content that is similar in nature to allow users to discover new and related content organically while using the platform.
An individual video page includes information about the title of the video, the author, DOI and copyright. It also includes a description and information about the content set, length, and keywords.
Image pages include information about the title of the image, the author, the image, copyright information, date, identifier, source document, the content set it belongs to and the subjects it relates to.
Images are displayed via the image viewer. The buttons on the right side of the image frame allow you to increase or decrease the size, rotate, and make the image full screen.
Related images are displayed on the right-hand side of the web page.
An individual audio page includes information about the title of the video, the author, DOI and copyright. It also includes a description and information about the content set it belongs to and the subjects it relates to.
The audio player allows you to play or pause, increase, or decrease the volume, and make full screen.
Create a personal account using the sign up function to save content and searches in folders. Create an account by clicking “Log in” In the top right-hand corner of the site above “Librarians.” At the bottom of the pop-up window, click “Sign up now.”
After signing up or logging in to your personal account, you can save searches and content to folders. To save a search, click the “Save this Search” button from any search results page, which appears on the right side of the page above the search results and below the static search bar.
To save content, locate the “Save” icon in the top right-hand corner of any page of the content (directly under “Advanced Search”) that you wish to save. Clicking on ‘Save’ will enable you to save the URL of the relevant page into a folder. You can create multiple folders and save different content into each.
Access folders from “My Content” under the welcome message in the top right corner of the site.
APA, MLA, and Chicago citations are available for all content on the platform. Click the “Citation” button next to the Save and Print links. This will bring up a pop-up window with citation information that you can copy to clipboard or export as a RIS file.
Clicking the “Share” button on any content page will bring up a form with options to share content via email, Google plus, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, with options to personalize the message before posting or emailing.
To access the librarians’ section of the Human Kinetics Library, select “For Librarians” in the top navigation bar. This section provides useful information on the Benefits for Subscribing Institutions, MARC Records, Promotional Materials for the platform, as well as Help and Contact Us information.
