1 Manual LIMO

2 Content  What’s LIMO?  Content of LIMO  Getting started in LIMO  Performing Searches  Using the Search Results  Managing Search Results  “My account”

3 What’s LIMO?  The discovery service LIMO is the central access point to the collections of the K.U.Leuven libraries.  You can now discover in a single search what sources are available on a certain topic.

4 Advantages of LIMO  You can find print and electronic publications via 1 search interface in the catalogue of the K.U.Leuven libraries and other LIBISnet libraries in LIRIAS= the research repository of K.U.Leuven in databases and e-book collections that are available within the institution in free e-journals collections

5 What’s not in LIMO?  NOT all the online databases and e-journal collections licensed by K.U.Leuven are available

6 What’s not in LIMO?  Monthly new collections are added in LIMO  Up-to-date overview of the databases which can be found in LIMO and which can not be found in LIMO via link op LIMO- startpagelinkLIMO- startpage

7 What’s LIMO?

8 Getting started in LIMO  In order to make maximum use of LIMO’s search potential you have to make sure that you are connected to the K.U.Leuven network.  Language: choose your language (English/Nederlands)  “You are on campus” when: you’re working in a library or a PC room (KULeuvenNet) when you are on KotNet when you are connected to the university’s wireless network (Eduroam)Eduroam

9 Getting started in LIMO  When you are off campus, use your Central K.U.Leuven credentials and you can log in to KULeuvenNet

10 Getting started in LIMO  Use your Central K.U.Leuven credentials

11 Getting started in LIMO  By signing in you have access to a personal account which enables you to do the following: Set preferences for your current and future sessions. Permanently store items you have found and queries you have submitted in “My Citations Use library services: you can benefit from library services such as requesting items or making an interlibrary loan request.

12 Performing Searches in LIMO  Physical items in KU Leuven (per campus)

13 Performing Searches: Simple Search  Type one or more words you are looking for and click the Search button.  Any query is a cross-collection search which can potentially yield many hundreds or even thousands of relevant results

14 Performing Searches: Simple Search  handy hints Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT “exact phrase” using quotation marks Truncation and wildcards ? with 0 or 1 character:  e.g. wom?n = woman OR women * with 0 or 1, or more characters:  e.g. cultur*= culture AND cultural AND culturally,… Grouping terms within a query giving priority to some terms by using brackets

15 How to quickly find… A book in the library  Search on the title of the book (don’t combine this with the author name in simple search).  Limit your search results to Physical items in KU Leuven A journal  Search on the title of the journal  Limit your search results to Resource type: Journals A specific article  Search on the title of the article  Look up the journal title

16 Performing Searches: Advanced Search  Self-selected search terms in maximum 3 separate search panels  Using filters to reduce the number of search results in advance.

17 Performing Searches: Advanced Search

18 Performing Searches: use facets Navigate in My results by using facets. Maximum 10 filters to refine My results.

19 Performing Searches  Limit my results to: Physical items = items retrieved from the traditional LIBISnet-catalogue Peer-reviewed= journal articles that have been thoroughly checked by fellow scholars and researchers before publication Full-text online = shows online publications Cited in WoS = scientific books and articles which according to the Web of Science citation database have been cited in other journal articlesWeb of Science

20 Performing Searches  Refine my results: additional search filters: Resource type: filter by type of material Creation date: filter by year of publication Creator: filter by author or editor Topic: filter by topic Language: filter by language of the original publication Source: filter by database from which LIMO has retrieved the results Journal title: filter by title of the journals Library (K.U.Leuven/other institutions): filter by K.U.Leuven library/or LIBISnet libraries where the print copy of a hit is available

21 Performing Searches  For each limiter and filter LIMO by default shows the three items with most results  Additional items can be viewed by clicking the Show X more link.  Per facet you can only select one item at a time  you can combine several facets one after the other

22 Using the Search Results Sorting results Relevance (default) Date newest Title A-Z

23 Using the Search Results  For each Result: Indication of an icon, incl. cover of books a short bibliographic description information about availability Full text available on campus Available in K.U.Leuven/other institutions No full text available Currently not on shelf Check Details

24 Using the Search Results  For each Result: depending on the resource type, two or more tabs are shown :  Physical items maximum 3:  Electronic publications maximum 4:  First :

25 Using the Search Results  For print items and audiovisual materials from the local collections max. 3 tabs Locations:  in which library a copy can be found  items are on shelf or not  can items be requested or not  links to relevant information in Find Library Details:  full bibliographic information  one or several links e.g. ILL-request, Google Books,… Share:  permalink for easy linking  bookmark or share to social bookmarking sites  print &  export link to bibliographic sofware like Reference Manager or Endnote

26 Using the Search Results  For Online publications max. 4 tabs View online:  a link that takes you to the full text  only shown when you are “on campus” Details:  full bibliographic details  one or several links e.g. ILL-request, Find item in the library Recommendations:  additional articles can be shown which might be relevant to the topic Share:  permalink for easy linking  bookmark or share to social bookmarking sites  print &  export link to bibliographic sofware like Reference Manager or Endnote

27 Using the Search Results : Locations CollectionShelf Number Available, but No Loan

28 Using the Search Results : Locations  Full text available:

29 Using the Search Results : Locations  Request a copy that’s borrowed:

30 Using the Search Results : Locations  Request a copy that’s borrowed:

31 Using the Search Results : Details  Request a copy in another library: ILL-request

32 Using the Search Results : Details  Request a copy from another library

33 Managing results: My account

34 Managing Results: My accounts  To check the progress of a request you’ve placed  To make a free ILL-request

35 Managing Results : My account  Select, save, my citations Check the box and add the items -> My citations

36 Managing Results: My account  Saving this query: Provide a name and the query will be saved

37 Managing Results: My citations  All saved queries can be viewed by going to My Citations

38 “My account”  Loans Renewing loans List of historic loans  Any request (stackroom, ILL)  Unpaid fines  Personal settings: address, , changing password…

39 Searching databases  Using Advanced Search, material type databases to find a specific database:

40 Extra tool: Find Databases Use Find Database to identify additional databases of which the content is not covered by Limo.

41 Extra tool: Find Databases Search “philosophy” in All Fields Click on title to have access to the database Get a short description of the database via “Show info”

42 Extra tool: use Find E-Journals  To search for electronic journals by title and by subject (Category)

43 Extra tool: use Find E-Journals

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