+ Version 0.7 has improved performance, stability and user feedback, as well as additional features such as RSS/Atom feed support. (Atom feeds of stored searches alert users when new content matching their interests is harvested.)
+ Integration, interoperability and reuse. OJAX uses loosely coupled Web Services and supports the OpenSearch RSS standard, thus facilitating integration with a range of virtual library environments, institutional repositories, course management systems and institutional portals.
+ Open source standards-compliance. OJAX supports best-practice open source standards and software, including OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, StAX and Apache Lucene.
Features of OJAX:
+ Auto-completion of search terms
+ Triggering of auto-searches
+ Dynamically scrollable search results - no more navigating between pages
+ Auto-expansion of search result details
+ Rapid sorting of results
+ Integrated with the Firefox 2 / IE 7 search feature
+ Supports OpenSearch Discovery
+ Stored searches as Atom feeds
+ Includes an OAI-PMH harvester
+ Easy to install in your own institution
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