Library Search help

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• You can search for a phrase by enclosing the words in quotation marks, eg "global warming".
• Use an * (asterisk) as a multiple character wildcard, eg climat* (for climate, climates, climatology, etc) or math* (for maths, mathematics, etc).
• Use a ? as a single character wildcard, eg wom?n (for woman or women).
• Library Search assumes that you are searching for all of the keywords you enter in a search unless OR or NOT are entered between the words or phrases. To use Boolean operators AND, OR, or NOT in your searches you must enter them in upper case, otherwise Library Search will consider them to be just words to include in the search, eg:
  • russian OR soviet
  • russian NOT soviet
  • shakespeare (sonnet OR tragedy)
• Apart from AND, OR, and NOT just mentioned, the system is not case sensitive, so you can enter lower or upper case letters for the same result
• On order items are not found using Browse Search. Default search or Advanced Search results do include on order items.

Searching for a particular book?

• Try searching for the author's last name and one or more significant title words, eg orwell farm. Once your search results display, you can use the 'Refine My Results' by 'Resource Type' and select Books or the 'Available in the Library' link. If you are looking for a reading list item, you could search in 'UoB Collections' rather than Everything.  If your search finds too many results, you could add further significant words from the title.
• If you know the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) of the book, you can search for this (without hyphens, eg, 0751400785) and it will often take you straight to the book you are looking for. However, a small proportion of our book records do not include the required ISBN, so if you do not find a result try a normal keyword search to double check.
• If you are trying to locate a book chapter reference try this approach and search for the title of the whole book and/or the author/editor of the whole book.
• If you only know the title, try entering a few title words - entering a full long title is usually unnecessary.
• Further advice on using our book collections and eBooks can be found on our books collection page.

Searching for books on a particular subject?

• Try searching with one or more keywords, eg history england or history engl* or "english history". Once your search results display, you can use the 'Refine My Results' by 'Resource Type' and select Books or the 'Available in the Library' link.   If your search finds too many results, consider adding further subject keywords.
• Alternatively, if you know the classmark of a useful book on the subject, you could use one of the 'Browse Search' Classmark options.
• If you are looking for an eBook on a particular subject, you can use any of these approaches together with using 'Refine My Results' by 'Resource Type' and select Books followed by the 'Full Text Online' link.

Searching for books by a particular author?

• Try searching with full parts of the name (initials will not work), eg stephen hawking.
• If you have the last name and initial only, you could use the Browse Search 'Author' option and enter hawking s.

Trying to locate an individual journal article?

• If you know the author and title of the journal article, you can use these to search within Everything, which includes journal articles from a huge collection of various publishers and databases. If you find the article you will see a 'View Online' option if we have online access, or 'Other Options' link if we do not have online access.
• If you know the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) of the article, you can search for this (eg, 'DOI: 10.1017/S0003581509990138' or 10.1017/S0003581509990138) in Everything and it will often take you straight to the article you are looking for. However, some journal article records do not include the DOI so if you do not find a result try a normal keyword search to double check.
• Not all of the articles that we have online access to or have in the print journals we hold are included in Everything, so if you do not find the article in either of these two ways, don't give up and try looking for the journal itself using one of the next three options:
• If you only have the journal title, year, volume and page number, try searching UoB Collections for the Journal title with keywords from the title, eg  international economic or internat* econ* if the title has been abbreviated
• Alternatively, use 'Browse Search', choose 'by title' and enter the start of the journal title in full, eg international journal of economic.
• If you are looking for a particular eJournal, you can use the the Find eJournals link in the main navigation to link to the eJournals catalogue.
• Further advice on using journals can be found in our journals collection page. See Coverage of Library Search below for more details of the journal articles, etc, included in the 'Everything' option of Library Search.

Trying to locate a particular journal?

• Try searching in UoB Collections for the Journal title with keywords from the title: eg  international economic or internat* econ* if the title has been abbreviated
• If you know the ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) of the journal, you can search for this (enter with hyphen, eg, 0028-6842). If you use the Everything search, you could find results for the journal itself and for the articles published within it. If you use the UoB Collections search, just the journal would normally be found. However, some journal records do not include the required ISSN, so if you do not find a result try a normal keyword search to double check.
• Alternatively, use 'Browse Search', choose 'by title' and enter the start of the journal title in full, eg international journal of economic.
• If you are looking for a particular eJournal, you can use the the Find eJournals link in the main navigation to link to the eJournals catalogue.
• Further advice on using journals can be found in our journals collection page. See Coverage of Library Search below for more details of the journal articles, etc, included in the 'Everything' option of Library Search.

Trying to search the literature?

• Searching Library Search is not equivalent to searching the literature of a subject. Library Search does not include details of all the individual articles in all the journals published, nor all of the books and other materials published. However, Library Search is likely to give you a reasonable start to searching the literature of a subject, and if you do not need a comprehensive search it may provide enough material for you.
• For a more comprehensive search of the literature, you will probably need to use one of the databases available via the 'Databases' option on the Library homepage or the 'Find Databases' link in the navigation bar of Library Search. Often these databases will have more powerful search options than available in Library Search as well.

Trying to find other library materials, such as an eBook, a thesis, or DVD?

• If you are only interested in eBooks (electronic books), perform your search and then look for the 'Refine My Results' by 'Resource Type' and select Books followed by the 'Full Text Online' link.
• If you are interested in theses, perform your search and then look for the 'Refine My Results' by 'Resource Type' and select Thesis.
• To restrict your search to DVDs, perform your search and then look for the 'Refine My Results' by 'Resource Type' and select 'Audio Visual'.
• Further advice on searching for other library materials can be found in our collections pages.

Found too much, or too little, in your search?

If you find too much in your search, you could try adding further keywords to your search or try the Advanced Search or Browse Search options. If your original search was of Everything, you could also switch to using the UoB Collections tab - the search should run again automatically when you change tabs. Another approach is to use the Refine My Results and 'Show only' options to the left hand side of the search results which may allow you to refine by Material Type, Library, Publication Year, etc, and show only ‘Full Text Online’ and ‘Available in the Library’. Click on any of these to refine your search results.

If you do not find what you were looking for, make sure all words are spelled correctly, try different keywords, try more general keywords, try fewer keywords. Also, if you are looking for a book published before 1978, please check our Card Catalogue Online as well. If an essential book is not held by the Library or available online, you can make a book suggestion, or if we don't have a particular book or journal article in our libraries or online, you may be able to make an Inter-Library Loan (ILL) request for it.

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You can choose to search either Everything or 'UoB Collections' by using the tabs above the search box:

• UoB Collections covers the Library’s print and electronic collections, including books, eBooks, journals, eJournals, theses, and more.
• Everything searches for journal articles as well as UoB Collections, from a huge collection of various publishers and databases. However, Library Search does not include all articles published in all journals so should not be used for a comprehensive search of the literature. See the Search tips above for more advice.
• The huge collection of journal articles, etc, which Library Search includes is called the Primo Central Index, and Sheffield maintain a Primo Central Collection List of which collections are included.
• For comprehensive searches for articles in your subject area, we recommend that you use the appropriate databases for your particular subject, which may also provide more powerful search facilities.

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This section describes how to use the Advanced Search option of Library Search, which is accessed using the Advanced Search link near the main search box. Please note that we still have some work to do to improve Advanced Search, so you may see improvements if you return to Advanced Search in the future.

Advanced Search allows you to fine tune your search beforehand, whereas with the standard search you will often want to refine your search results afterwards.  As with the standard search, you can choose to search either Everything or 'UoB Collections' by using the tabs above the search box.  See the top of this page for a description of these.

1. The default is to search for 'Any' part of the record which 'contains' the key words or phrases you enter. If you wish to restrict your search to a particular field, use the down arrow beside 'Any' and choose from the options in the drop down list - 'in the title', as author/creator', or 'in subject'.  You can also change 'contains' to the more specific 'is (exact)' or 'starts with'
2. Enter your search term(s) into one or more of the two search box(es). The system is not case sensitive, so you can enter lower or upper case letters for the same result. You can search for a phrase  by enclosing the words in quotation marks, eg "global warming". You may also use a  * (asterisk) as a multiple character wildcard or a ? character as a single character wildcard. See the Search tips section above for more advice, including the use of Boolean operators AND, OR, or NOT in your searches.
3. You may restrict your search to a particular publication year range, material type (eg books, articles, journals), or language.
4. Click on Search, and the search hits which match your search will display

Trying to search the literature?

• Searching Library Search is not equivalent to searching the literature of a subject. Library Search does not include details of all the individual articles in all the journals published, nor all of the books and other materials published. However, Library Search is likely to give you a reasonable start to searching the literature of a subject, and if you do not need a comprehensive search, it may provide enough material for you.
• For a more comprehensive search of the literature, you will probably need to use one of the databases available via the 'Databases' option on the Library homepage or the 'Find Databases' link in the navigation bar of Library Search. Often these databases will have more powerful search options than available in Library Search as well.

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Browse Search is sometimes a useful alternative to keyword type searching, and is accessed using the Browse Search link near the main search box. Please note that Browse Search does not include the journal articles included in the Everything search. First select the list to browse using the drop down list, the options being:

• By Author
  Enter the author's name last name first, eg shakespeare w
• By Title
  Enter the start of the title in full, eg international journal of economic, omitting words like 'The' at the very beginning of the title.
• By Classmark (BiolSci/Medical/Physics)
  Enter the classmark you are interested in, eg KN95.5
• By Classmark (ASSL/Educ/Queens/Wills/VetSci)
  Enter the classmark you are interested in, eg KN95.5
• By Classmark (Chemistry)
  Enter the Chemistry Library classmark you are interested in, eg F35

The results of your Browse Search will display as a list arranged alphabetically/numerically, from which you can select names or titles of interest.   Please note that we still have some work to do to improve Browse Search, so you may see improvements if you return to Browse Search in the future.

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When your search results display, you will see various options below each result which may include Locations/Availability for print resources held in our libraries, or View Online for resources we have online access to.  You can use these to access these in print or online.  Other options may display as well and these are described below.

Refine My Results, 'Show only', Sorting, and paging through the search results

• When your search results display, you will see various Refine My Results and 'Show only' options which may allow you to refine by Material Type, Library, Publication Year, etc, and show only ‘Full Text Online’ and ‘Available in the Library’. Click on any of these to refine your search results.  If this does not have the desired effect, you can remove the refinement by using the small cross next to 'Refined by:' immediately above the search results.
• Search results are sorted by relevance, though you can change the Sort to Date, Author, Title, etc, by clicking on the small down arrow symbol next to 'Sorted by' at the top right (and bottom right) of the search results.
• The number of search results will display immediately above and below your the search results. To page through your search results, use the page numbers and/or arrows displayed to the top right  (and bottom right) of the search results.  The default number of search results on each page is 20, though you can customize this in My Library Account > Personal Settings to 10, 20, 30 or 50 (you will only see the change if you are signed in).

Accessing the full text of the items found in your search

When your search results display, you will see various options below each result which may include:

• Locations/Availability for print resources held in our libraries.
• • The Locations/Availability tab will detail the print copies we hold - if all the copies are in one library, a list of the copies will display immediately; if copies are held in more than one library, you will need to use the   button by one of the libraries to see the copies in it.
  • A copy is on loan if a date is displayed in the Due Date column, which will also mention any existing reservations 
  • If you are not signed in, you will see 'Sign in to request' by each copy, but if you are signed in, this changes to Booking for short loan items and Reserve for long loan copies, which you can use if all long loan copies are already on loan. Use the Booking option to make an advance booking for a short loan copy for a particular time slot in the future (you will be prompted to enter the date and time period you want the book for).  Use the Reserve option if all the long loan copies of a book are on loan - we will recall the copy you reserve and send you an email when it is ready to collect (normally within a week, though this does depend on the person returning it by the recall date).  You can check your Booking and Reserve requests in My Library Account (see below) and cancel any that you no longer require.
• View Online for resources we have online access to. Click on View Online to link to the online version of the item within the tab. If you wish, you can use the 'Open source in a new window' link to open the online version in a new window. Sometimes you may land the on the publisher’s/Journal's home page rather than directly to the article you want - see the FAQ below for advice on this. Sometimes you may need to enter your UoB username and password to access online resources, though if you have already signed in to Library Search this will be unlikely. If you are off-campus, see the advice in the FAQs below.
• Other Options displays when online access is not available and gives you options for accessing the item, which may be through using the Inter-Library Loan service.

Using the information about the items in your search

• Resource type - the format of the item, such as book, article, journal, etc, will display to the left of each search result
• Book covers - in many cases an image of cover will display for books, while a generic image will display if the book cover is not available, or for other resource types. If you click on this image, you will be taken to the Details tab for the item.
• Brief details of the item are displayed including the Title (click the title to go to the Full view of the item), Author/editor, edition, publisher, publication year, etc.
• Details - the Details tab for an item provides the full details of the item together with useful links. The same information displays in the Full view of the item. The Details link below each search result provides more details of the item, links to further information, and an Actions option which allows you to email, print, or save the citation to reference management software such as EndNote.
• Star icon - click the star icon next to the title to add or remove the item from your basket. A highlighted star indicates that you have already added it to your basket. See the e-Shelf section below for more information.
• Related - this is an option you will sometimes see for journal articles results in the Everything search. This shows articles that are related to the item in your search results, based on use by users at Bristol and many other universities across the world.
• Virtual Browse - this is an option you will only see for search results in our UoB Collections where the item has a Shelf location.  It will display other items with similar classmarks/shelf locations from the first library listed with copies of the item.  Please note that a number of different classmark schemes are in use in different libraries, so if you are interested browsing a different library's shelves, you will need to use the Browse Search (see above) which has browse by classmark options for the main classmark schemes in use.

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The Previous Searches option in the top navigation will take you straight to the Queries section of My Library Account where you will be able to see and re-use ‘This session’s queries’. If you Sign in, you will also be able to use your ‘Saved queries & alerts’ from previous sessions.

To save searches for re-use in future sessions you need to be Signed in and you can then use the ‘Save query’ link at the bottom of the left hand navigation of the Search results page. A popup will display asking if you want the name the saved query or save the query together with an Alert. Activate alerts on your saved queries to have them run automatically at scheduled times to provide you with updated results from queries.

• This session’s queries will show a list of your searches in your current session and the day and time against each. Click on the search text link to re-run a particular search.
• Saved queries & alerts will appear as an option within Queries if you Sign in. You can run a saved query yourself, or you can set it as an alert that runs automatically at scheduled times and sends you new results by e-mail. To set up an alert for a saved query, click the Update link for that query and then specify the alert settings.

There is also a RSS feeds option above the 'Save Query' link on the Search results page to activate RSS feeds to receive updates for your favourite queries:

• Syndicated content, otherwise known as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), is a popular way to distribute information from websites. For example, using RSS, a news site or a blog can automatically feed its news articles or entries to a group of subscribers.
• RSS feeds in Library Search are used to notify you of new items found by the query.
• RSS feeds can be activated from either the search results or the 'Saved queries and alerts' section of Queries (you can access this by using the Previous Searches link, though you will need to be signed in to see it). All that you need is to have an RSS reader installed on your computer.
• If your browser supports RSS, click the RSS button. A window from which you can subscribe to the RSS feeds opens. Follow the instructions in the window.
• If your browser does not support RSS, right-click the RSS button, copy the URL and paste it into the RSS reader.

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Why should you sign in?

When you sign into Library Search, you are able to do the following:

• Access external licensed resources online such as eBooks, eJournals and databases.
• Access My Library Account to check current loans, renew loans, and view past loans.
• Reserve items on loan to others and make advance bookings for short loan items.
• Set your preferences so that they reflect the way you usually search, and save them for future sessions.
• Save items from your search results to your e-Shelf for future use.
• Save search queries that you have found useful for future use.
• Set alerts for your saved queries, so that they run automatically and send you email notification of new items answering your search criteria.

You can Sign in to Library Search by using the Sign in option in the top navigation bar.  Alternatively, you will be prompted to sign-in to use 'My Library Account', make Inter-library loan requests, place a reservation for an item currently on loan, or make an advance booking for a SLC (Short Loan Collection) item.  When you sign in to the Library Search, your name will appear on the left of the top navigation bar. To protect your interests, a sign in expires after 30 minutes of inactivity and will be signed-out, clearing any previous searches and search results.

Students and staff (including honorary staff) - choose UoB login and you should be taken to the Single Sign-On page where you can sign in using your UoB username and UoB password:

• UoB username : your University of Bristol username, e.g.:
     ab1234 (undergraduates, some postgraduates)
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     lwabc (staff, some postgraduates)
• UoB password : the password you use with your UOB username.

External users (including UOB graduates, former UOB staff, Sconul Access scheme for students and staff from other universities, individual memberships, etc) - sign in to Library Search using your Library Number and Library PIN in place of the UOB username and UOB password respectively:

• Library Number : this number applies only to external users and is given at registration. Help with this is available from Membership Services or the Issue Desk in the Arts & Social Sciences Library.
• Library PIN : if you do not know your PIN or if your Library PIN exceeds 4 digits, please go to Membership Services or the Issue Desk in the Arts & Social Sciences Library.

Important: Remember to Sign-out of Library Search (by using the Sign out option in the top navigation) when you have finished to ensure that subsequent users cannot access your library details or make reservation, booking or inter-library loan requests in your name. This will also clear any previous searches and search results. When you are signed out of the Library Search, 'Guest' replaces your name on the left of the top navigation. Please note that you should close any open browser windows to fully sign out of Library Search; otherwise, the browser may remember your previous sign in and allow sign in to take place without entering your log in details again.

Personal settings

You can tailor the Library Search user interface so that it reflects the way you usually search. For example: you can specify the maximum numbers of search results per page and indicate your subject area so that results better reflect your interests. You can also reset your Library PIN. To set your preferences, click the Personal settings option on the left side of My Account.Note: To keep your settings for future sessions, you must sign in and save your preferences.

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The e-Shelf allows you to save and organise items that you find during your Library Search session. If you are signed in, you can use e-Shelf to remember items you have searched for previously.   Please note that if you do not Sign in to Library Search, anything you save to the e-Shelf will be lost as soon as your browser is closed.

To access e-Shelf, use the e-Shelf link at the top right of the page.

Saving items to the e-Shelf from your search results list:

• Saving items to e-Shelf - click on the small star icon next to the item’s title in the search results to add that item to the Basket folder in e-Shelf. The star icon changes to highlighted yellow.
• Removing items from e-Shelf - to remove an item and all of its copies in the various folders in e-Shelf, select the highlighted yellow Star icon next to the item in the search results. If you do not want to delete all copies of an item in e-Shelf, you can remove each copy individually. For more information on removing items from e-Shelf, see Managing items.

Viewing items in the e-Shelf when you are not signed in:

• Access the e-Shelf by using the e-Shelf link at the top right of the page, and the Basket folder will display with any items you have saved to the e-Shelf during the current session.
• Below the list of items, the full view of the highlighted Basket item will display.  To see the full view of any of the other items in the Basket click on the item.
• Above the list you will see a cross symbol - use this to delete Basket items you have selected by using the tick boxes.
• Above the list you will also see options to Email, Print and Save selected items from the Basket.  The Save options include pushing items to EndNote Online, Refworks, Delicious or Export RIS.

Viewing items in the e-Shelf when you are signed in:

• Access the e-Shelf by using the e-Shelf link at the top right of the page, and the Basket folder will display with any items you have saved to the e-Shelf during the current session, together with any in your Basket from your previous signed in session.
• To left of the list of items in the Basket, you will see a list of the Folders you have in your e-Shelf - these will only appear if you are signed in.  Click on a folder name to see the list of items in it.  Symbols above the folder list allow you to create a New folder, Rename a folder, Copy a folder, Paste a folder, and Delete a folder.
• Below the list of items, the full view of the highlighted item in the folder will display.  To see the full view of any of the other items in the folder click on the item.
• Above the list you will see options to Email, Print and Save selected items from the Basket.  The Save options include pushing items to EndNote Online, Refworks, Delicious or Export RIS.
• Above the list you will also see a cross symbol - use this to delete folder items you have selected by using the tick boxes.
• There are also symbols to Cut, Copy and Paste selected items.  Use either the Cut or Copy options in the folder where the items currently are, switch folder using the folder name link in the left hand folders list, and then click on the Paste symbol to move the items to this folder (if you used Cut) or copy the items to this folder (if you used Copy).

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My Library Account allows you to look at information about you and your use of the library.

You will need to Sign-in using your UOB username and UOB password to use 'My Library Account'.

The following options are available within 'My Library Account':

• Loans allows you to look at a list of the items you have on loan and to link to an option to renew these loans. It also tells you the date that items are due for return and if any fines have been incurred to date (note that fines displayed will continue to increase until the item is returned or renewed). You will not be able to renew the loan of items that have been requested by other readers, or short loan items, or renew any loans if you have overdue loans. Loans also includes ‘List of Historic Loans’ which allows you to look at your previous loans, up to a maximum of 100, with advice on how to obtain a full list. Please note that details of items borrowed and returned which are older than 999 days (approx 2 yrs, 10 mths) will be deleted on an ongoing basis.
• Requests allows you to look at a list of the items you have reserved or the short loan items you have booked and cancel any that are no longer required.
• Fines allows you to look at your cash transactions including fines and inter-library loan charges. Please note that fines continue to increase on a particular item until it has been returned.
• Blocks & Messages lists any issues with your account.  It is rare that a user will have an account blocked, but details would be given here.

Important: Remember to Sign-out of My Library Account when you have finished to ensure that subsequent users cannot access your library details or make reservation, booking or inter-library loan requests in your name.

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The Research Reserve is located off-campus. It is home to 1/3 of the Library's printed collections. The material held there includes lesser-used books and journals, theses and archives, as well as journal runs that we hold for the nation as members of the UK Research Reserve. This is a prestigious national cooperative, designed to build and preserve a print archive of journals. The Research Reserve is not open for staff and students to visit, but you can request items using an online request form. If you find Research Reserve items when you search Library Search, they will include the wording Research Reserve - use request above together with a location e.g. (Store 313781 ). To request a Research Reserve item, use the 'Research Reserve Request' link in the navigation bar above the search box to open the request form in a new window or tab, and then fill in the details of the book or journal you wish to borrow from the Research Reserve - you can copy and paste these details from Library Search. You will be sent an email when the item is ready for you to collect.

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The Inter-library loans option in the main navigation can be used to request material which is not available in our libraries or online, and will take you to our Inter-library loans website. You will need to sign-in using your UOB username and UOB password to make a request on this service, which is available to all academic members of staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students. Non-academic and retired members of staff should talk to the Inter-library loans staff or staff in their branch library before making requests.

Further details are given on the Inter-library loans service pages on the Library website:

• Inter-library loans for University of Bristol staff and students: including how to make requests using the online forms
• Inter-library loans FAQs: including urgent requests, requesting UK theses, cancelling requests
• Copies for commercial research
• Inter-library loans for other libraries

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Library Search downtime

Planned maintenance sometimes results in Library Search downtime - details are posted on the news section of our website.

When Library Search is unavailable, as an alternative you may search Copac. Copac brings together the catalogues of a growing number of major UK and Irish libraries, including the UK's national libraries, many university libraries, including Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge, and specialist research libraries such as the National Art Library (V&A Museum). Please note that when searching Copac for University of Bristol holdings:

• Use the 'Main Search' option and select Bristol from the 'library' list.
• You will be able to discover records for printed items and some ebooks. Records for ejournals, and ejournal articles are not included.
• No loan details for items will be available.
• Very recent changes to the catalogue (within the last 4 weeks) will not be shown.

Please note: if the Library website is down, you may be able to access Library Search here

Known issues

• Formats of dates: in some areas of Library Search dates are displayed in 10/07/2014 (dd/mm/YYYY) format while in other areas they show as 10/Jul/2014.  Unfortunately it isn't possible to standardise on the  10/Jul/2014 format.
• Display of copies in Location/Availability: for 'books' held in more than one of our libraries you will need to click on the Library name to see the copies held.  We did investigate whether the copies for all libraries could display by default, but this was not possible.
• ILL Requests take you to a separate website:  at the moment Library Search does not include an Inter-Library Loans request system, so the ILL Requests option in Library Search takes you to our Inter-Library Loans website.
• Grouping of print and electronic versions: sometimes the print and electronic versions of a search result are grouped together, but more often they are listed separately. We are looking into this inconsistency. Where the print and electronic versions of a search result have been grouped together, the record that displays may include bibliographic information that is lacking in detail. We are also looking at how the record that displays can be improved. 
• Editions of a book display in a 'random' order: the default sort order of search results is Relevancy, which uses a complicated algorithm based on many factors. At the moment this results in editions of a book displaying in a 'random' order, though we are looking into whether this could be improved upon. In the meantime, a workaround is to use the 'UoB Collections' search and change the 'Sorted by' on the search results page to Date-newest.
• Use of the Back button to return to Library home: if you do an Everything search and then use the back button to return to the Library homepage, it works fine. However, on some browsers, if you do a UoB Collections search and then use the back button, the search box on Library home seems to reset to Everything. Except it doesn't really - if you run the search, the tab indicates Everything but the actual search is UoB Collections again. Solutions to the problem are to use the search box at the top of the search results page rather than the Back button, or if you do use the back button to return to the Library homepage, click on the Everything or UoB Collections tab before searching again.
• Sign in links do not bring up the Sign in page: sometimes when you use the Sign in option on Library Search, or the Sign in or My Library Account links on the Library homepage, or the links to My Library Account within MyBristol, you are not prompted to Sign in but enter Library Search (a) without being signed in or sometimes (b) you are signed back in without having to enter you login details again. In (a) this happens when you have been using Library Search previously in the same browser and the timeout has kicked in - you should be able to use the Sign in link after this happens. In (b) this will happen when you have been using Library Search previously in the same browser and have signed out but not closed the browser window - we recommend you close the browser window as well as sign out to fully sign out.
• Sign in page lacks 'look and feel' of Library Search: we expect the Library Search 'look and feel' to be applied to the Sign in pages shortly, the delay has been caused by a special requirement we made that was non-standard.

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• Library Search is the Library's new search/discovery service, introduced in September 2014. It provides a single search interface for searching the Library's printed and online collections, together with millions of scholarly e-resources all at the same time.  Library Search is found on the Library homepage and can also be searched and accessed from MyBristol.
• Library Search is powered by Primo from Ex Libris.  Primo is very widely used by academic libraries in the U.K. and across the World.

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• The Library Catalogue was retired in April 2015.
• The MetaLib resource gateway was retired in June 2015.
• Library Search combines the content of the now retired Library Catalogue, the eJournal Catalogue, and our Online Archive Catalogue, plus a huge collection of journal articles and other scholarly content.
• Links to databases that were previously available via the MetaLib Resource Gateway can now be found on our Databases web page, and we plan to add records for the main databases to Library Search as soon as possible.
• Some books published before 1978 held by the Library are only listed on the Card Catalogue Online and we intend to maintain this service until such time as all pre-1978 books held by the Library are available through Library Search.
• We plan to keep the eJournal Catalogue as a quick route to the eJournals we subscribe to - there is a 'Find eJournal' link on Library Search which links to this.
• The Online Archive Catalogue will also continue, as it provides extra detail and navigation options to what is available through Library Search.

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Yes, though it is especially important that you sign in to Library Search with your University username and password when working away from the University campus as this will give you access to the full-text of a large proportion of the Library's licenced electronic resources, including eJournals and eBooks. For further information, please see our advice on how to gain access to electronic resources from outside of the University.

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The Details tab below each search result includes an Actions option which allows you to email, print, or save the citation to reference management software such as EndNote. Options include:

• Add to e-Shelf
• E-mail
• Print
• Permalink: this gives you a permanent URL to this item in Library Search
• Citation: download a basic reference to the item in a text file
• EndNote Online: Use this option if you wish to import the reference into EndNote Online
• RefWorks: Use this option if you wish to import the reference into EndNote Online
• Delicious: Use this option if you wish to import the reference into Delicious
• Export RIS: Use this option if you wish to import the reference into other reference manager software

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The Everything search in Library Search includes content from many publishers and databases, including Web of Science, but does not include everything published. See the Coverage of Library Search section above for details. Also the searching within Library Search is limited to fairly simple 'Google-like' searching, whereas many databases have sophisticated extra search capabilities. However, Library Search is likely to give you a good start to searching the literature of a subject, and if you do not need a comprehensive search it may provide enough material for you.

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Yes, sometimes you may land on the publisher’s/Journal's home page rather than going directly to the full text you want. This may be because you are linking to an eJournal rather than to an article within it, or some publisher's websites are not set up for linking to individual articles. If this happens, just browse the volumes and issues on the journal site for the reference you need, or use the volume and page number search facility which is on many journal sites. Please let library staff know about specific titles or publishers that cause problems - see the Contact us section below.

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Yes, see the Using your previous searches, queries, alerts, and RSS feeds section above.

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Yes, on order items are on Library Search but please note that there is a time delay between a Subject Librarian ordering an item and it appearing on Library Search, as orders are passed to, and then entered on the system by, our book/serials ordering section. Once it is on Library Search:

• Use the normal search or Advanced Search option on Library Search to find on order items. On order items cannot be found by using the Browse Search'.
• When you find an on order item on Library Search, you will find the words On Order on the Locations/Availability tab.
• Once the item has arrived, this will change to Cataloging, and then to Not yet classified. Once an item has been catalogued it can be found by using the Browse Search on Library Search as well.
• On order: Cataloguing and Not yet classified items can be reserved, in which case we will contact you when the item becomes available.

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