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Finding Books and
Journals:
WISER Hilary Term 2008
Juliet Ralph & Cesar Pimenta
Radcliffe Science Library
BIGGEST university library
service in UK
Oxford University Library Services
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
Which library for my subject?
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries
– Locations & opening hours
– Subjects & Special collections
Research Libraries
Bodleian Library
Radcliffe Science Library
Sackler Library (Art History, Classics
& Archaeology)
Social Science Library
Taylor Institution (Modern Languages
& Literature)
“Legal deposit” system
Bodleian Library is entitled to a free
copy of every book and journal
published in the UK
Since 1610
Science intake at Radcliffe Science
Library
Not for loan
Majority housed in closed Stacks
The library catalogue
OLIS (Oxford Libraries Information
System) is the most comprehensive
index to our collections.
It includes
printed Books and Journals in
over 100 libraries
Over 12 million items
What it doesn’t include (yet!)
Some collections eg Chinese
language, early manuscripts
–Separate catalogues for these
–See www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources
Not all e-books & e-journals
Not all College libraries
–College libraries are only open to
their own members
Browse and Keyword searching
Browse in index displays an alphabetical
list from the selected index (Title, Author,
etc). The closest match appears in bold.
Search for keywords will retrieve items
that contain the word(s) you enter
wherever they appear in the selected field
(Title, Author, Subject, etc).
Searching for a specific book
If you know the exact title
– Do a Browse search by Title
– If the first word is the, a, an – omit this
If you know the author’s full name
– Do a Browse search by Author
– Use surname, first name eg
Dawkins, Richard
If you don’t have full details
– Do a Keyword search
– Enter one or more words from author, title,
series, publisher, etc
Searching for a specific journal
Journals are included in the main Title
index
But you can also search by Journal Title
– Useful for one-word titles eg Nature.
NB Journal articles (and book chapters)
are not listed in their own right so you need to search for the Book or
Journal itself.
Your results
You can Sort results by date, author
or title
Limit results by date, language or
material type, such as Books, Maps,
Serials (Journals) etc
Mark records to save or email them
View your Search History.
Searching by subject
Search for Keywords in title, e.g.
facial expression.
OR
Use Subject Headings : choose
“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.
Reservations and Renewals
Reservations – choose Hold Title if
all copies are on loan at that library
(and you are a member of it)
Patron functions – view your
record, renew your loans, check your
reservations & stack requests, etc
Making a Stack request
If the Location is a Stack (such as
Bodley or RSL), choose Request
from stacks
You will usually be offered a choice of
delivery location
If the Journal issue you want is not
listed individually, choose Unlisted
part and fill in the form
To use these options you need
Your barcode number (on
University Card)
and your OLIS password
…which is your date of birth, in
this format
17sep1985
www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis
Oxford University e-Journals
Uses the SFX system produced by Ex
Libris
SFX provides links to articles in
databases and other sources where
you see the “Find it @ Oxford” icon
It also provides an A-Z listing of our
e-journals.
The A-Z list
Over 40,000 titles
Current subscriptions with all major
publishers
Growing numbers of backfiles
(archives)
Some are also listed on OLIS, but
not complete yet
Which years are available?
You may get a choice of links, such as:
Publisher – for latest issues (last 5-10
years)
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.
http://ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk
If we haven’t got it
Inter-Library Loans / Document
Supply service
£3.75 per request
Journal articles delivered by email
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/ill
Library catalogues beyond Oxford
COPAC: the UK’s main research
libraries
http://copac.ac.uk/
WorldCat: libraries worldwide
Access via Oxlip
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/
Here to help
Contact your Subject Librarian
Listed at
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries/librarians
Online enquiry service “Ask an Oxford
Librarian”
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley/ask
[email protected]
[email protected]
Next WISER General session
Friday 25 January, 12.30-1.30pm
Introduction to e-resources available
at Oxford including
– Bibliographic databases, online
reference tools and statistics.
– How to access from outside the Oxford
network.
Book via www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/