Some of you have probably noticed that when you ask questions about how to use features in NoodleBib, we’ve started referring you to sections of our new Web version of the NoodleBib User’s Guide, rather than to the Knowledge Base. We will no longer be putting these types of articles in the knowledge base — the knowledge base will be mainly reserved for addressing tricky citation questions.

The advantages of the new version of the user’s guide are numerous:

1. We can easily keep it up to date, since it is automatically generated from the Word/PDF version of the user’s guide.

2. The search mechanism for finding articles related to your question is MUCH better than it was in the knowledge base, where search results were often inconsistent.

3. When we refer you to an individual article, it displays the article within the context of the chapter/section where it is located in the user’s guide, which is often helpful.

4. Individual sections within the user’s guide can be bookmarked and/or printed.

Note that the PDF version of the user’s guide is also still available (if you open the Web version, you’ll see a PDF icon at the top-right of the screen). But I expect that most users will opt for the Web version now. Let us know what you think!

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