WISER Humanities: OxLIP+ Electronic resources

•What is Oxlip+ What does it cover? What does it do? What are its limitations?•How to use Oxlip+ to find databases and e-journals•A few very brief search tips•How to use Oxlip+ to Cross Search databases?•How to manipulate articles and database in My Research?•How does Oxlip+ relate to other key Library tools?

Angela Carritt

Oxlip+ : a portal to online resources

Thanks for the Word Cloud to http://www.wordle.net/.

What does it cover?

• Online resources / databases– Collections of full text articles, papers, e-journals...– Indexing / Abstracting / Tables of Contents

services – collections of references– Library catalogues

• Individual e-Journals

What does it do?

• Allows you to find databases / e-journals by searching and browsing

• Provides access to all online resources / e-journals from off campus

• Some online resources can be searched simultaneously from within Oxlip+

• MyResearch offers storage / personalisation

Limitations

• Oxlip+ is one portal among many• Mainly subscription resources• Other portals / search engines

– Intute @ www.intute.ac.uk • Good quality (mainly free) web resources

– British Library @ www.bl.uk/reshelp– Many others….

Using Oxlip+ to find and access Online Resources

Logging in

Log in•When you are off campus•To use “My Research”

•Don’t forget to log off and to close you internet browser when you are using a public computer

Oxlip+ has four main options

Find database (e.g. collections of articles, datasets etc)

Find e-Journal: Find individual journals by journal title

CrossSearch – allows you to search some databases simultaneously from within Oxlip+

My Research – your personal storage area on Oxlip+.

Find database

Search by title or browse the A-Z of titles. Only really suitable if you know the name of the database you wish to use already!

Browse databases by subject

Search database by vendor/publisher or by searching for keywords (“any word”) in the database description

Find Database: Browsing subjects

A-Z of subjects

Pick a subject or type of resource

Pick a sub-category

Click “Go”

Find Database: Browsing subjects

To see a little more information about all the resources choose “Detailed view”

To connect to a database click on the title

Click on “i” to see full information including coverage information, search tips, tutorials and guides etc

Find Database: More browsing

Icons – if you see an icon use the “Legend” on the right to find out what it means

Magnifier – shows that the resource can be searched from within Oxlip+ (and CrossSearched)

Next page

Note on language dictionaries

• Bilingual– Oxford reference online (via Oxlip+) (French, German,

Spanish, Italian) – http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de

• Monolingual– Lexilogos @ http://

www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm

• French– Centre nationel de ressources textuelles et lexicales @

http://www.cnrtl.fr/ 

• German – http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/

Brief detour to the MLA…

Keywords searches journal article titles and subjects (not author names).

Brief detour to the MLA…

Brief detour to the MLA…

List of libraries holding the item including Oxford

Direct link to look up the item in the Oxford Catalogue (OLIS)

Check for online version. You will see the “FindIt@Oxford” icon in many databases

Finding databases by title

Enter full words from the database title

Browse the A-Z

Find Database: Other options

“Any word” – searches titles and descriptions of databases. i.e. searches the information in i

Find e-Journal

Find e-Journal: by title

Find e-Journal: by title

Follow the link

Find e-Journal: choosing a database

List of databases that hold the journal.Choose the database with the “best” date range

e.g. Date range for Chadwcyk…

No need to fill in the boxes. Click Go to connect

Options for finding a print copy. Choose OLIS for Oxford libraries.

Find e-Journal: “Starts”, “Contains”, “Exact”

When looking for a title that includes very common words choose “Exact”

Find e-journal: other search options

X X X

The other search options within “Find e-Journal” are unreliable

Search tips

• Check “help”, “tips”, “examples”• What are the keywords for your subject?

– Are there any synonyms? – Are there any alternative spellings?– Which words are likely to be used in article titles /

abstracts? – If you get too many results – can you refine your

search?– If you get too few results – what are the broader

terms?

Use Connectors / Boolean logic

Spain Civil War

Spain AND “Civil War” returns articles including both words

ConflictWar

War OR Conflict returns articles including one word or the other or both

Civil WarSpain

Civil War Not Spain returns articles including the phrase “Civil War” but only if the word Spain isn’t included

“ ”searches for an exact

phrase e.g.“United States” “Spanish Civil War”“War and Peace”

Truncation/Stemming & wild cards

• Alternative word endingse.g. child* = child, children, childish etc

• Wild cards for alternative spellinge.g. Brown? = Brown, Browne

• Notation varies – check help for details

ADVANCED FEATURES: CROSS SEARCH

CrossSearch

Pros

• Quick• Easy• Google like

Cons• Not all resources can be cross

searched • Fewer search options = less

control over your search• Oxlip+ only displays a

proportion of the results its finds

•Allows you to search SOME databases from the Oxlip+ •Up to 5 databases can be searched at once

CrossSearch

1. Choose between browsing Subjects or My Databases (your own favourites created in MyResearch)

3. Choose up to 5 databases. Only databases with a tick box can be cross searched

4. Enter your search terms

2.Choose a subject and sub category

Re-sort by Author / Title / Date

See more information using Detailed View or Full View. You can email or save items from full view

Refine your search by choosing Topics, Dates, Authors, Subjects

Shopping basket saves the item to MyResearch

“Findit@Oxford” checks for full text using OU eJournals. FT indicates that full text is definitely available.

See more results

Results

View and rerun previous searches, save searches and set up email alerts

Saving CrossSearches

MY RESEARCH

My Research

• Your personal area on Oxlip+• Need to log in to use most features

MyArticles: store & export articles from CrossSearch

MyDatabases: store your favourite databases and create sets to use in CrossSearch

Re-run your saved cross-searches and set up e-mail alerts

My Articles

Email selected articles or save them to your computer (flash drive/disk etc)

Delete item

Save to a folder in Oxlip+

Delete folder

Advanced folder options: move items between folders, rename etc

History

To run a saved “CrossSearch” click on the search

Set up an email alert for a “saved CrossSearch”.Oxlip+ will regularly re-run the search and send you any new results by email.

My Databases

• Allows you to save and organise your favourite databases from Find Databases into Sets (like folders)

• Sets which include cross searchable databases can be searched using CrossSearch

1. My Databases: Use to choose your favourite Find Databases databases

Click + to add a database to My Databases

If you want to CrossSearch your chosen databases, only choose databases with the magnifying glass. This shows that that the database can be cross searched

2. My Databases: Organise your databases into Sets

The databases that you have chosen appear on the Clipboard

Click to save the databases to a set (folder)

Give your set a name

List of sets

3. My Databases & CrossSearch: cross search your sets

Choose MyDatabases

Choose the appropriate set

Add search terms

How does Oxlip+ relate to other OULS tools?

OLIS: The Library Catalogue•Books / E-books

•Journals•Official & Government Papers

•Pamphlets•Reports

•Papers….

OU e-Journals•A-Z of online journals

Oxlip+•-A-Z of databases

•Subject list of databases•Options to Cross Search and

manipulate databases

ORA (Oxford Research Archive)•Repository of research papers

written by Ox Uni membersincludesOU e-Journals

•A-Z of online journals

includesOU e-Journals

•A-Z of online journals

SOLO•Books / E-books

•Journals / E-journals•Official & Government Papers

•Pamphlets•Reports

•Papers….• Oxlip+ A-Z of databases

•ORA research papers written by Ox Uni members

SOLO

Includes:OU e-Journals

•A-Z of online journals

includesOU e-Journals

•A-Z of online journals