OJAX 0.7

OJAX provides a highly dynamic AJAX based user interface to a federated search service for OAI-PMH compatible repository metadata.
OJAX is simple, non-threatening but powerful. It attempts to minimise upfront user investment and provide immediate dynamic feedback, thus encouraging experimentation and enabling enactive learning.
Benefits of OJAX
- Provide a single search interface across all the repositories in use in an institution or consortium.
- Or provide an improved search interface to a single repository
- Faster resource discovery.
- Easy to use, and support.
Main features:
- Auto-completion of search terms
- Triggering of auto-searches
- Dynamically scrollable search results - no more navigating between pages
- Auto-expansion of search result details
- Rapid sorting of results
- Integrated with the Firefox 2 / IE 7 search feature
- Supports OpenSearch Discovery
- Stored searches as Atom feeds
- Includes an OAI-PMH harvester
- Easy to install in your own institution
Enhancements:
- This is a beta release.
- Performance, stability, and user feedback were improved.
- New features include supporting Atom feeds of stored searches to alert users when new content matching their interests is harvested.