Transcript A Guide to using the Construction Information Service from

Information & Library
Services
A guide to using the
Construction Information
Service from
IHS/Technical Indexes
Alice Fulcher
August 2006
Go to university home page –
www.gre.ac.uk – and click on ‘student
portal’
Use your university network username
and password to login, in or outside the
university
Go to the Library & Computing tab on
the portal
then
Click on
Databases
& Journals
or (via
Athens DA)
Click on either of these
to get to the Athens DA
login
Use your same university username and
password to login to Athens DA
Go to the MyAthens page to access the
databases
Click on Resources to see list of databases
available
Click on database name from the
alphabetical list
Technical Indexes Home page – for all databases
Can do a quick search across all databases
available, by typing term in box and press search
Results from Quick search – click result
to see list of documents
Select Construction Information Service by
clicking on “view product”
Top menu
stays the same
Links to popular
documents
Simple
search
box
Advanced
search
Browse subjects
Each area selected here will open
in new window e.g.Access EMAP
Can access tutorials, database help, lists of
reference documents in Precis
Pull-down menu shows article list
List of documents (with links) to documents
cited in Building Regs. from Reference
documents
Roundup briefings give up-to-date information
about the construction industry, updated monthly
Selecting AJ+ from menus gives access to news,
archives and lots of information – check the pulldown menus
If you go to sections such as Precis, which open in a
new window, this message appears, so you do not
get logged out
If you select a subject on the Home page to
browse, get suggestions for narrowing search
Total
results
display
here
Select Publishers from
top menu to get A-Z
list
Click on publisher to
get list of publications
included – then click to
see document
Clicking on Help will give a menu of Help tips
and hints
Some simple searches will come up with lots of
records. Related phrases suggest ways of narrowing
search
Specify It gives references to product literature
Specify it results show trade names, suppliers and
types of products
List of suppliers
come up with
symbol showing
we cannot
access
documents – but
click on name…
…to get
details &
often
web
address
Advanced search allows searching by document
number & publisher or series – good for BRE and
British Standards. Restricts or pinpoints results.
Click on title to get to document
Get further details about document, & often
thumbnail picture of title page. By clicking on View
document, agree to copyright conditions and see full
text
If printing from a pdf file, only print 6 pages or so at a
time – the computer sends all data to the printer
before printing, so if there is too much, the printer
will refuse to print !
In Advanced search, unless search term is
uncommon, best to restrict to title & abstract –
whole document will produce lots of hits
Can restrict
select how
to
Can
search
display
results,
by
date &
section,
and
restrict
&
choose
result
search by years
display
and section
Create your own preferences and folders of links by
registering with My CIS
Register for a new account, or log in to use existing
account
When you register, details are kept on file. In the
future, they are going to email people if any
document in their folders gets updated
You can set up preferences, so when you are logged
in, you can display results how you want, search
which sections you need, and see which news feed
you like
Go into My favourites to go into and create folders
When looking at document list, can click here to add
to your favourites
Select which folder to add document to, then click on
Add to target folder
When searching , a “breadcrumb trail” shows, so you
can click to go back in your search
Document appears in folder. Another time, you can
login to My CIS and call up document
When you logout, you can either go to another IHS
database, or click to logout completely