WISER Key tools for finding Oxford resources Gillian

WISER: Key tools for finding Oxford resources Gillian Beattie gillian. beattie@ssl. ox. ac. uk 25 January 2010

SOLO • Sign in using SSO username and password to: – Access electronic resources (e-journals and ebooks) off-campus – Save records to your e-shelf – Save searches and set up alerts – Assign tags to items

Searching on SOLO • ‘OLIS & other catalogues’ – Books and journals catalogued in OLIS – Articles, papers, and theses in ORA (Oxford University’s researchive) – Simply enter search terms in the box and click on go • ‘Articles & databases sampler’ – Cross-search selected databases in a particular subject area – Enter search terms in the box, choose a subject from the drop-down menu, and click on go

Working with search results • Sort by relevance or date • Refine results using the options in the menu on the right • Different versions/editions of the same work are usually grouped together • Click on the blue title link to see more information about an item • Click on ‘check library holdings’ to find out where print copies are available • Click on ‘online access/get it’ to link through to full text of electronic copies

Saving results and setting up alerts • To add items to e-shelf, simply click to tick the box • Click on the e-shelf link to see what you have added to it • Choose results to email, print, or export • ‘This session’s queries’ shows all the searches you have run in this sitting – click on the one you want to save or set up as an alert, then click ‘save query’, and enter the details as prompted

Articles & database sampler • Articles & databases sampler – a quick demo… • Click on the link to see what databases you are cross-searching • In your search results, click on ‘may be full text’ to check for full text availability

Ox. LIP+ • Gateway to hundreds of online resources: – Bibliographic databases – Full text resources, including OU e-journals – Data and statistics – Websites

Signing in to Ox. LIP+ • Sign in using SSO to access resources when working off-campus • Use My Research to save results and set up alerts for searches run within Ox. LIP+, and to save lists of your favourite resources for cross-searching

Finding resources in Ox. LIP+ • To browse resources for your subject area, click the subject tab and select from the drop-down menu • To find resources on a particular topic, choose ‘other options’ and search in the ‘any word’ field • If you know the resource you want to use, search for it in the Title tab

Finding resources in Ox. LIP+ • Click on the blue ‘I’ to find out more about a resource – publisher, coverage, etc. • Click on + sign to add the resource to your clipboard (it will then appear under ‘My databases’ in ‘My research’) • The magnifying glass means that you can search the database in Ox. LIP+ itself • To enter the resource itself, click on the title link

Searching in Ox. LIP+ • Some resources let you search in Ox. LIP+ itself – look for the magnifying glass symbol • Cross-search – up to five databases at a time, from particular subject areas or using your own customised set.

My research • Saved results • Save search and set up alert • Make set of databases and show it appears in list of options for crosssearching.

Further help • For further assistance using the resources available via Ox. LIP+, your subject librarians are here to help: http: //www. ouls. ox. ac. uk/libraries/subjects/ librarians