Last year, with your help and direction, we developed a new authentication system called Knovel User Registration that has laid the groundwork for the personalization features that we rolled out in My Knovel last November. If you have been upgraded and have registered a profile, you already know about creating a personal space for organizing and saving favorite titles, search queries and content that you can recall with a single click. We’re still working through the upgrade process with our customer administrators, but Profile users are starting to appreciate the streamlined access to their saved content and are organizing and sharing Knovel resources with their colleagues.

Recently, we’ve lit up Knovel Lab with a new feature called Clip to Knovel that expands the usability of My Knovel to any information you find while researching the Internet.  Here’s how it works:

First, you install Clip to Knovel to your browser toolbar.  In Firefox, it’s drag-and-drop; Internet Explorer involves a right-click to add to your Favorites (IE8) or Links (IE7) Bar.  Either way, once Clip to Knovel is installed, you can start collecting Web Clips from anywhere on the net.  It’s easy: highlight text from any website, and click Clip to Knovel. A box pops up capturing the page URL, the snippet you highlighted and a customizable title for easy recall. When you go to My Knovel, My Web Clips are stored in 2 places:

1. In Unfiled Items, where you can move them into one of your named folders
2. Under Aggregated Content, in the My Web Clips folder.

It’s waiting for you in Knovel Lab.  Click on My Knovel, and then on My Web Clips, where you can play around with Clip to Knovel.  We’re very anxious to hear from you, and the Knovel Lab exit survey should take you only a minute to complete.  We’ve got more enhancements queuing up for the Lab, and are recruiting for Design Partners.  If you’re interested, drop me an email.