WISER Social Sciences SOLO Search Oxford Libraries Online

WISER Social Sciences: SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) Judy Reading OULS User Education Co-ordinator Gillian Pritchard Reader Services Librarian, Social Science Library

SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) SOLO is a new search tool for our collections. It encompasses: OLIS catalogue, ORA (Oxford Research Archive), OU E-Journals and Ox. LIP+ (interface to electronic databases). This session will show you how to find books and journals and search across collections.

Key resources and services • SOLO: Search Oxford Libraries Online http: //solo. ouls. ox. ac. uk • OLIS Oxford University’s union catalogue • www. lib. ox. ac. uk/olis • Other electronic resources, including access to databases http: //oxlip-plus. ouls. ox. ac. uk • E-journals catalogue http: //ejournals. ouls. ox. ac. uk

SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) http: //solo. ouls. ox. ac. uk • A new search and discovery tool for the Oxford Libraries’ vast collection of resources • Offers a simple powerful search across OLIS (Oxford’s union catalogue) and ORA (Oxford Research Archive) with the potential for the inclusion of more special collections in the future • Includes e-books, e-journals and databases alongside print material in results • The Articles and databases sampler allows you to get a quick list of useful articles for your subject

http: //solo. ouls. ox. ac. uk

http: //solo. ouls. ox. ac. uk The menu offers New search (can also use Clear search) as well as navigation to native interfaces and the OULS webpage Contextspecific help available

Sign in to SOLO to add items to an e-Shelf, set alerts, access subscription resources, tag and review items

The default search will combine any words entered with And ie all words need to be in the record for it to be retrieved

To do a search for a specific book try the first few (or significant) words in the title and the author’s surname.

"Get It” takes you through to OLIS holdings as well as showing you a link “Additional services” which include full-text if available eg for e-journals.

Automated Stack Requests have to be placed in OLIS not SOLO “Patron Functions” (such as renewing or reserving books) is only available in OLIS and you will need to login using your University card number and OLIS password not Oxford SSO

More about search options…

You can restrict your search to Books, Articles, Journals, Images or Audiovisual material Change to “with my exact phrase” to combine words in your results eg “development economics” not development and economics You can choose to look for words in the title, as a author/creator, a subject or in user generated tags

IMPORTANT: you need to clear the search to remove these limits. You can choose to look for your search term in a specific library, in OULS or limit to Online resources are included in the results for specific libraries.

Choose Advanced search to combine searches and for more options

SOLO offers spell check

Results display You can choose to sort your results by relevance, date or popularity.

Results display An icon tells you at a glance what kind of record you have eg Book, Journal, Database

Results display Click on View details to see the full record for a reference from the results list

Results display The Details display gives you options such as (if available) Table of contents, Abstracts and “Snippets”

Results display Results are grouped in SOLO so that records with similar bibliographic records are pulled together. It is worth clicking through to see all versions.

Results display Limit your results by topic, library, creation date, creator or resource type

Results display Scroll to the bottom of the results page to see what to do if your search hasn’t worked and suggestions for further searches

Results display If you choose to Add to e-Shelf you can email the reference, save it or push it to a reference management system such as Refworks. Sign in to save your selections

Click on Sign in and then choose University of Oxford and when prompted enter your University of Oxford Single Sign-On (SSO) user name and password. For more information on SSO see: www. ouls. ox. ac. uk/sers/resources/ssoathens Click on Guest e-Shelf or e-Shelf [if logged in] to see your selections.

View of e-Shelf - Guest

If you login to SOLO you will see this option at the top of your results list.

You will need to name your query and decide whether you want to set up an alert as well as save the search.

Having saved a query it will be in your e-Shelf

Searching for e-resources SOLO includes the titles and descriptions of e-resources like ASSIA

Searching for e-books SOLO includes records for some ebooks eg The New Institutional Politics. Try searching for Institutional Politics and restricting to Online Resources

Searching for theses To find Oxford theses in print try including “thesis” and the Department name in your search

Articles and databases sampler SOLO also offers the option to search across selected databases using: Articles and databases sampler

Articles and databases sampler This link allows you to see which five databases have been selected by subject librarians for the sampler for their subject.

Articles and databases sampler

Sampler searching. . • Can be used to quickly retrieve quality information resources using a simple search box across a range of resources • Over 200 of our 800 databases are crosssearchable (ie nearly 600 are not and cannot be included in these sets). • To see the full list of databases go to Ox. LIP+. • Key databases for particular subjects may be excluded. • Cross-searching is slow because it is going out to native interfaces. • E-journal packages eg JSTOR or Science Direct are not included in sets because they are too slow to search (because they are so big).

Articles and databases sampler This search won’t work unless you select a subject collection

Articles and databases sampler You can choose to see the results before the search is complete

Articles and databases sampler: Results display Results look similar to searching OLIS & other collections but here we are looking at articles and other resources indexed in databases such as the Social Science Citation Index

Break and hands-on exercises

OLIS: The Oxford Libraries Information Systems • Use to renew your books or order a stack request • Go direct or link through from SOLO • Offers access to catalogue indexes, crossreferences and full notes www. lib. ox. ac. uk/olis Guides can be downloaded from: www. lib. ox. ac. uk/olis/documentation

OLIS: Library catalogue • OLIS (Oxford Libraries Information System) provides an index to Oxford University Library collections. • Not all College libraries use OLIS and College collections are not open to all University members. Ask for reference access if they have the only copy. Nuffield College has Social Science collection which is open to other graduates. • Some collections are not included in OLIS eg Chinese language materials, manuscripts and older material not yet catalogued.

OLIS catalogue http: //www. lib. ox. ac. uk/olis

Browse Searching A browse search displays an alphabetical list of the headings in the selected index (title, author, subject etc. ) that are closest to the word(s)/characters you enter. The closest match will appear emboldened. Use when you know the exact title/author or where the first words of the search are known.

Keyword Searching Use the keywords search to search for items that contain the word(s) you enter wherever they appear in the selected field (title, subject, author, etc). Use when you are unsure of the exact details.

OLIS v SOLO • OLIS is the union catalogue comprising books and other items in OLIS library collections SOLO is a resource discovery tool. You can search across OLIS and e-books, e-journal titles, database titles and ORA • OLIS allows keyword and browse searching SOLO only allows keyword searching

OLIS v SOLO • OLIS offers more indexes than SOLO. Allows more detailed searching and cross-referencing • OLIS has subject headings. SOLO has facets and many more links • Use OLIS to view borrowing transactions, renew books, place reservations and stack requests • Use SOLO for personalised search alerts, downloading records into bibliographic management packages

Searching for a specific book in OLIS • Usually the title search is the simplest option (NB omit initial article e. g. the, a, der, le) • You can also browse search on author (enter surname, first name) • or combine author and title in a keyword search

Searching for a book by subject in OLIS • Library of Congress Subject Headings provide a subject index eg Browse for “Education and state – Great Britain” in LC Subjects • OLIS lets you see cross-references • Try looking at the subject terms used for indexing a book you know to be relevant eg click on hyperlinked subject entries for “The core executive in Britain”

Other catalogues • Go to Other options in Ox. LIP+, then select Library catalogues as type and click on Go • COPAC • British Library Catalogue • World. Cat You can visit other libraries with relevant collections or ask for an inter-library loan

e-Journals at Oxford • • • Full text access to hundreds of journal articles Browse recent issues of journals by subject area Download, email or print articles Use Oxford SSO off-campus Link through to possible full-text in databases when you see this logo

http: //ejournals. ouls. ox. ac. uk

SOLO includes articles, theses and other material from the Oxford Research Archive – or you can go direct there and browse

Oxford University Research Archive http: //ora. ouls. ox. ac. uk

Ox. LIP+: Oxford Libraries Information Platform Provides access to: • peer-reviewed and subscription based research resources • bibliographic tools, e. g. Historical Abstracts, available to help you search for articles in your research area • Online reference works • Offers cross-search across selected databases • Save searches and email alerts

http: //oxlip-plus. ouls. ox. ac. uk

Ox. LIP+ (Oxford University e. Resources) • Linked from SOLO or direct at www. oxlipplus. ox. ac. uk • Portal to our electronic resources • Allows resources (ie databases etc) to be searched for by title or subject • Allows cross-searching of selected databases for articles or other individual resources • Enables easy remote access to most resources by signing-in with Oxford SSO

Use the default Find Database to search for a specific resource (eg SSCI) by title or A-Z search.

Click on the name of the resource to go through to the native interface

Find Database by Subject lets you browse through resources selected by subject librarians. Click on GO to see the titles under each sub-category

Further help • Ask in any Library and we will be pleased to help • Contact your subject librarian see http: //www. ouls. ox. ac. uk/libraries/subjects/librarians • Online help and guides are available see www. ouls. ox. ac. uk/guides or from individual libraries • Why not sign up for more WISER sessions? See www. ouls. ox. ac. uk/information_skills Please respond to the request for feedback which will be emailed to you – we do value your input