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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 or scroll and click the button to read about the current featured content. This is followed by a short description about the Jessica Kingsley Publishers Library. The tiles below the description offer thematic ways of exploring the platform. Below those tiles you have a further set of tiles for exploring titles based on intended audience.

At the bottom of the page, you will find the option to explore by Collection Tiles.

Autism and Neurodiversity

Selecting Autism and Neurodiversity from the Browse Collections dropdown menu will bring you to the overview page for the collection. Here you will find a description, a title list, and various links to browse content in the collection.

Gender Diversity and Sexuality

Selecting Gender Diversity and Sexuality from the Browse Collections dropdown menu will bring you to the overview page for the Gender Diversity and Sexuality collection. Here you will find a description, a title list, and various links to browse content in the collection.

Explore By

Explore By in the top navigation menu provides options to access the content by Subject, Books For, Age Range and Content Type.

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

Browse Collections offers options to browse the Jessica Kingsley Publishers Library Collections available on the platform.

Search

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.

The search page then lists other results in order of 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 Subject, Books For, Author, Age Range, Collection and Content Category. 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.

Navigate to the desired results by clicking on the chapter title at the top of each result.

Advanced Search

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 eBooks and Chapter.

Use the same search results functions on the search page to refine results further.

Ebook pages

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.

Chapter pages

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, and a linked table of contents for easy movement to other chapters within the book, followed 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.

Search within eBooks

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.

Personal Accounts, Saving, and Folders

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.

Cite

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.

Social Sharing

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.

Librarians

To access the librarians’ section of the Jessica Kingsley Publishers 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.