TURNS  Demo 

To see the “what should I read?” feature in action please go to the ISCE Library  (http://isce-library.net) 

and login in with the following demo account: 
User Name is: kickstarter@isce.edu Password is: Library

Please have a query of a few hundred words or more (in the fields of cognition, philosophy of science, systems science, or organization studies) ready to upload as the basis of your search. 


  1. Login
  2. Upload Text
  3. Generating Results
  4. Saving Results
  5. Concept Searches
  6. Word Searches
  7. External Searches
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Login 

To begin a full text query login and then click the "My Research" link located to the left of the "logout" button.


Upload Text

Rather than making use of keywords as the source of queries, the "my research" link in the ISCE Library allows a researcher to copy and paste up to 100k of text.

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After the text of the query is pasted in, the "generate concepts and tags" button is clicked.

The uploaded text is analyzed for its key concepts and for its most important words.  Theses key concepts and words are then compared to the key concepts and important words used in the more than 1000 books to be found in the ISCE Library.

Generating Results

Only those concepts and words which are found in BOTH the query text and the books in the ISCE Library are then returned as results of the search query.
 
Query results are returned as lists of key concepts along the left hand side of the page and as a word cloud in the middle of the page.


 

Saving Results

Should a researcher desire to save a query that option is provided:



Concept Searches

Click on the link provided for each concept  and those books in the library which also contain the same concept  are displayed. 



For researchers these results provide instant access to the key concepts of their query which can be researched in the ISCE Library and the actual list of books in the Library which are suggested to be read.




Word Searches

Click on the link provided for a word and those books in the library which also contain the same important word are displayed. 



Note the important words are actually sorted and displayed with regard to "50 page chunks" of each book  and not the book as a whole. The size of the word in the word cloud reflects its relative importance in the query text or of the 50 page chunk of a book as appropriate.  These results provide instant access to the important words of their query ( limited to those which can be researched in the ISCE Library) and the actual list of books in the Library which are suggested to be read.




External Searches


If the user is curious about other resources on the web which may be related to their query at the bottom of the word cloud are to links to "feed" either the key concepts or the ten most important words (from the cloud) to Google