Finding Books and Electronic Resources César Pimenta and Juliet Ralph October 2006

Overview of session Presentation outlining useful search strategies using online catalogues to find books and journals Demonstration of OLIS and TDnet to show how these strategies might work in practice Opportunities to practise with assistance available

Need for the session Libraries are the source of a tremendous range of books, manuscripts, journals, maps, CD-ROMs, etc. Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) provide a description and listing of the items held in the libraries. Users who are more confident with using online library catalogues are more likely to find items needed.

OxLIP Oxford Library Information Platform - our gateway to electronic resources our gateway to electronic resources Library catalogues including OLISLibrary catalogues including OLIS – Bibliographic databases – Full-text electronic journals – TDnet – Internet sites (subject gateways) – Reference works & statistics

OxLIP

Oxford Libraries Information System Oxford Libraries Information System (OLIS) is Oxford University's online union library catalogue. It contains records for over five million titles held by roughly one hundred libraries associated with Oxford University. Oxford Libraries Information System (OLIS) is Oxford University's online union library catalogue. It contains records for over five million titles held by roughly one hundred libraries associated with Oxford University.

OLIS

The library catalogue OLIS (Oxford Libraries Information System ) –lists the printed holdings of most libraries at Oxford University –You can reserve books on loan to others, make stack requests, check your library record and renew your books

Using Oxford libraries Your University Card is your library card Barcode number and password Your OLIS password is your date of birth Format is 25aug1985

Searching for a specific book or journal Browse the index, e.g. All Titles, All Authors, Journal title Or Or Search for keywords, e.g. Strongman in All Authors AND emotion in All Titles Strongman in All Authors AND emotion in All Titles

Subject searching Search for Keywords in title, e.g. facial expression Use Subject Headings “LC Subjects” (Library of Congress) as Browse or Keyword search “LC Subjects” (Library of Congress) as Browse or Keyword search Retrieves books on that subject even if they don’t have your keyword in the title Retrieves books on that subject even if they don’t have your keyword in the title

Worldwide library catalogues COPAC Major UK research libraries including the British Library Major UK research libraries including the British Library WorldCat Books and other materials in libraries worldwide Books and other materials in libraries worldwide

Electronic Journals All listed on TDnet Full-text journal articles – for viewing on screen, printing or ing Current titles from all major publishers Growing numbers of backfiles (archives) Some links from OLIS, but not complete yet

TDnet

Using TDnet Tip: if you have a single word title, such as Science, select “exact phrase” from the drop down menu. You may get a choice of links, such as: Publisher – for latest issues (last 5-10 years) Highwire – 10 yrs full text freely available, but not the last 12 months. JSTOR UK – for the archive. –Choose Browse this journal to get list of back issues JSTOR is an archive of key scholarly journals, spanning many disciplines. Some date back to the 1600s.

Where are they listed? Printed books and journals –OLIS catalogue Electronic journals –TDnet E-books –Oxlip E-journals and e-books Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias and Reference works

We are here to help Queries about electronic journals and databases, including access problems Radcliffe Science Library