Regular IntelliConenct users may have noticed a few changes over the past few weeks.  While most folks were away on holiday over the new year, the IntelliConnect team were busy adding some new features.  Here’s a look at what they were up to:

Search Results

Scanning through a list of search results is now easier thanks to the inclusion of source details in the title of each result.  Here’s a quick summary of the changes:

• - Legislation results now displays the title of the Act
• - Rulings and releases display the issuing body and the issue date
• - Case results now display the citation, court and date of the judgment
• - Commentary, news and other secondary sources now display the title of the publication

IntelliConnect's new-look search results

Printing for Court

PDF reproductions of printed case reports are now available for online case reports.  Most cases from 2009 have court-ready versions, and all cases from 2010 onwards will also have this option. CCH is also looking into progressively adding Print PDFs for older cases.

To print a case for court, simply go to the full text of the case you are looking for and click on the “Print PDF” link that appears under the party name. A PDF reproduction of the print version will open in a new window.

Printing the "print" version of a case

Printing via the “Print Menu” will continue to provide an online version of the document for printing, rather than the court-ready version.

You may notice that very recent cases may not have a “Print PDF” option yet. That is because we update the online product faster than the print version – and we can’t reproduce a print version of the case until we’ve actually printed it! The links are added once the print update is published.

One of the great things about IntelliConnect is that we will be continually upgrading it and adding features according to what our customers want.  Be sure to keep an eye out here for more IntelliConnect news in the future.

While most of us enjoyed some time off over Christmas and New Year a small team of dedicated editors, production and procurement staff, customer service managers and printers were working hard on the CCH end of year book program.

The book program is an intensive period where annual and first editions of most of our key titles are edited, produced, printed and distributed in time for the start of university semesters. Planning starts in mid-August and the program ends in February. Dedicated teams work exclusively on the book program and it is always both demanding and rewarding.

Getting the books written and edited on time is the first challenge. Our authors and editors manage to do this every year but there are more than a few late nights and stressful moments. The next step is to ensure that the right titles are ready for the right universities and orders are fulfilled correctly. The university term start dates range  from the 15 February to the 1st March and dispatch has to be prioritized accordingly. What can increase the complexity is the communication between CCH, the printer and the bookshops – we talk a different language at times!  We use an internal code for each book, the printer uses a reference number and the bookshops use the ISBN. Luckily this is not a problem when you have such experienced coordinators as Merilyn Murphy and Sue Rooker: Merilyn has been with CCH for over 20 years and Sue has been CCH’s Relationship Manager at Macpherson’s Printing Group for over a decade. Merilyn and Sue are an integral part of ensuring the book program always goes to plan and so far it always has.

To give you an idea of the size of the book program, in 2009 we printed 240, 000, 000 pages and it will be even more this year. To take a look at the latest 2010 titles just click here.