Triggering a Factbook or Topic Guide Query

Damian McGrath

I keep thinking that if I select something, eg. “Councils of Carthage” that I should be able to trigger either a Factbook or Topic Guide query. Selecting a single word offers 6 possibilities in the context menu. Selecting more than one word offers only wikipedia. Strange that I am basically sent outside of my library.

I remember raising this issue years ago. 

Dave Hooton

I keep thinking that if I select something, eg. “Councils of Carthage” that I should be able to trigger either a Factbook or Topic Guide query.....Selecting more than one word offers only wikipedia.

If I select that phrase in a resource I get Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (ODCC) + Wikipedia when I click Headword in the context menu, otherwise I only get Wikipedia if I click Selection. Without a resource like ODCC, I think I would only get Wikipedia.

A Factbook or Topic Guide query on the phrase also produces ODCC, but other results are external to my library.

So I would have expected Selection (in the context menu) to also trigger a Factbook and Topic Guide query (irrespective of where the results came from).