California Digital Library Assignment 6: Interactive Prototype #1 Scenario Walkthrough #2

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#2. You are a UC graduate student in the Genetics Department. You are looking for a specific journal article that a professor recommended. You don't remember the exact journal, or article title, but you know that the article was published within the past couple of months, is about mitochondria DNA in sea urchins, and is by somebody named Roberti. Please see if you can find this article.

Scenario walkthrough:
User enters Home page. Clicks on Select Sources.

If our prototype had been implemented as we desired, the user could put "Roberti" in as Keyword, select "Electronic Journals" as a Source Type, under the Topic choice "Biological & Medical Sciences." Click "Retrieve Source List" button.

This is the best we could do in the existing CDL live interface. But the choice to select all Electronic Journals under "genetics" exists...and the article can be retrieved from this Source list.

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