Sorting

Sorting can be by title, by web address, by date added or modified, by any of the public data fields or by popularity (defined in relation to a specified groups of colleagues, and hence to a discipline or domain).

Why Use Sort?

Heurist normally sorts search results alphabetically by title. Sorting by relevance allows one to discover resources that colleagues in particular fields rate highly, or to find resources which have been recently added or modified.

How to Use Sort

Select sort order from pulldown in Advanced Search.

Order the results according to the ratings provided by you or by identifiable groups of colleagues ('user clouds'). See social bookmarking for more information on this powerful methodology for discovering resources of specific interest, and identifying colleagues with shared interests.

Specifying sort order in the search string

sortby:xxx

Where xxx can be "url", "modified", "added", "title" or "rating" (with the obvious meanings); "popularity" to sort according to how many times each record has been bookmarked; or sortby:field:abc / sortby:field:abc:m

abc is the numerical identifier of a field (internally, bib_detail.bdt_id). Note that field can be abbreviated to f
The optional m parameter causes records to be displayed in more than one location in the list if the sort field has more than one value.

For example, the normal behaviour where there are multiple authors is to display the record once, alphabetically sorted by first author. If m is specified, the record will be displayed once for each of the authors in the appropriate alphabetical locations.

Creating User Clouds

A new entry "RatedBy: <name-of-user-cloud>" is automatically created in the sort order pulldown whenever you add a user cloud to the system. Creation of user clouds and editing of the list of people in each cloud, is accessed from a link below Saved Searches.