Here is a quick summary of the available features to help you get the most out of your IntelliConnect research experience.
You can search the content of your entire subscription right from the home page, or you can target specific content areas for your search by selecting them from the Browse menu. You can also search within your search results to further narrow the scope of your search.
Each time you perform a search, your search results are displayed on a new tab, allowing you to keep multiple tabs containing multiple sets of search results open on your screen. Note that a maximum of 12 tabs (plus the Home tab) can be displayed in IntelliConnect at one time, and you can turn the Auto Tabs feature off if you do not want your search results displayed on a new tab every time you run a search.
All content available in your subscription is displayed in a Table of Contents on the Browse menu. The Browse menu can be displayed using one of two different "view" settings: Tree or Library.
The "Tree" view setting displays the Browse menu as an expandable/collapsible list of your product content located on the left-hand side of the screen.
The "Library" view setting displays the Browse menu as a series of links you can click to expand the contents of the selected library in the area of the screen beneath the menu.
Both Browse menu "view" settings allow you to quickly browse your product content (all the way to document level), search your entire subscription (or selected content areas), and perform all of the other powerful features available in IntelliConnect. It just gives you one more way to customize the Browse menu to suit your research needs!
With this feature, you can select news worthy items of interest that you want tracked and delivered to you a daily basis. Your Tracker News can be delivered to you via email, RSS feed, and/or right within IntelliConnect. You can customize your news tracker delivery options and also narrow the tracker search to a specific document type or other editorially-defined criteria within a subject area. You won’t ever miss anything related to your business needs when you set up a News Tracker to do the search for you!
"Relate" allows you to link to related documents from your current research. These related links are actually collections of documents that are similar to those you are currently viewing. Note that related links will only appear in a selected number of publications and only in those publications in which you subscribe. You may see the relate feature active within various publications for Federal and State, Pension, and Business Compliance. Related links are intended to help improve your research experience by finding documents that can further assist you and add value to your current research.
The Document Tray is a handy feature that allows you to temporarily park documents in a location that you can access during your research session. Once you’ve parked the document, you can go back to the tray, access your document, and take some action with it. For example, you can copy and/or move the document to a Research Folder, print it, save it, or delete it from the tray entirely.
Note that when you log out of IntelliConnect, documents in the tray will be deleted unless you indicate that you wish to save them. The system will prompt you at logout asking if you wish to save the documents for your next research session.
The Research Folders feature allows you store documents in Research Folders that you can access later. Documents stored in the Research Folder will remain in your folder until you delete them. With the Research Folder feature, you can rename folders, delete folders, or add a note to any document within a folder. You can even copy and/or move a document to another Research Folder or to the Document Tray, print it, save it, or delete it from the folder entirely.
The My Favorites feature allows you to save IntelliConnect documents as shortcuts. Shortcuts can be saved as document links within IntelliConnect as a “Favorite” or as external links in other applications such as MS Word, or in your internet browser as a “Favorite.” When you save a document as a favorite within IntelliConnect, it will appear in the Browse menu under “My Favorites.”
This feature keeps track of your searches and allows you to go back and rerun a search at a later time. Your search history is saved by default for 60 days.
You can access the practice tools available in your subscription right from the Quick Bar. Note that when you search all content in your subscription, all of the practice tools available in your subscription will also be included in your search.