The Wildlife Society has introduced enhanced website search capabilities designed to help members, students, researchers and conservation professionals quickly access the resources most relevant to their needs.
The upgraded search experience delivers more accurate results across the extensive collection of publications, news articles, webinars, podcasts, policy updates and professional development content on wildlife.org.
To access the search feature, select the magnifying glass at the top right of any wildlife.org webpage. From there, you can choose to search everything, only website content or all of our resources. Searching only for website content provides a quick way to find a TWS webpage of interest. This search excludes web articles and other resources so that you can get to the core webpage you’re looking for with fewer clicks. Interested in learning more about a TWS program or working group? Then the web content search is for you.
If you’re ready to discover decades of valuable content across our entire network of resources, then select “Search Resources.” We’ve merged all of our resource databases into one central hub so that you can spend less time searching for what you need. Search a topic of interest and discover TWS peer-reviewed publications, news articles, webinars, podcasts, position statements, technical reviews and policy letters from our entire network of organization units, all in one place. This is your one-stop shop for everything TWS.
“When building the website, we wanted to create something unique and useful for our members,” said Chief Program Officer Cameron Kovach. “Where else can you search for peer-reviewed content alongside decades of news content, webinars and podcasts? There’s nothing else like this made specifically for wildlife professionals.”
Looking for a specific resource? Use the filters to limit the search to a specific category or categories. For example, applying the “Position Statement” and “Issue Statement” filters will show you all TWS policy statements on a particular topic. Want to see the full catalog of webinars? Apply the “webinar” filter and keep the search bar empty. The results will be every single webinar hosted by TWS. You now have the ability to customize your search to be as broad or as narrow as you wish.
These improvements reflect TWS’ ongoing commitment to providing accessible, user-friendly digital tools that support wildlife professionals and conservation practitioners around the world.
“In addition to assisting wildlife professionals, these new search tools will also bring our growing catalog of open access science directly to our vast public audience,” Kovach said. “Visitors to wildlife.org will no longer need to know how or where to search for peer-reviewed science. We’re bringing it directly to them.”
Visit wildlife.org today and explore the new search experience.
Article by Cameron J. Kovach
