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Manual LIMO
2013-2014
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Content
What’s LIMO?
 Content of LIMO
 Getting started in LIMO
 Performing Searches
 Using the Search Results
 Managing Search Results
 “My account”
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What’s LIMO?
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The discovery service LIMO is the central
access point to the collections of the
K.U.Leuven libraries.
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You can now discover in a single search
what sources are available on a certain
topic .
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Advantages of LIMO
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You can find print and electronic
publications via 1 search interface
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in the catalogue of the K.U.Leuven libraries and other
LIBISnet libraries
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in LIRIAS= the research repository of K.U.Leuven
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in databases and e-book collections that are available
within the institution
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in free e-journals collections
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What’s not in LIMO?
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NOT all the online databases and e-journal collections
licensed by K.U.Leuven are available
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What’s not in LIMO?
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Monthly new collections are added in LIMO
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Up-to-date overview of the databases
which can be found in LIMO and which can
not be found in LIMO via link op LIMOstartpage
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What’s LIMO?
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Getting started in LIMO
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In order to make maximum use of LIMO’s search potential
you have to make sure that you are connected to the
K.U.Leuven network.
Language: choose your language (English/Nederlands)
“You are on campus” when:
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you’re working in a library or a PC room (KULeuvenNet)
when you are on KotNet
when you are connected to the university’s wireless network
(Eduroam)
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Getting started in LIMO
When you are off campus, use your Central K.U.Leuven credentials
and you can log in to KULeuvenNet
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Getting started in LIMO
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Use your Central K.U.Leuven credentials
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Getting started in LIMO
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By signing in you have access to a personal
account which enables you to do the following:
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Set preferences for your current and future sessions.
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Permanently store items you have found and queries
you have submitted in “My Citations
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Use library services: you can benefit from library
services such as requesting items or making an
interlibrary loan request.
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Performing Searches in LIMO
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Physical items in KU Leuven (per campus)
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Performing Searches: Simple Search
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Type one or more words you are looking for and click the Search
button.
Any query is a cross-collection search which can potentially yield
many hundreds or even thousands of relevant results
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Performing Searches: Simple Search
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handy hints
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Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT
“exact phrase” using quotation marks
Truncation and wildcards
? with 0 or 1 character:
 e.g. wom?n = woman OR women
* with 0 or 1, or more characters:
 e.g. cultur*= culture AND cultural AND culturally,…
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Grouping terms within a query giving priority
to some terms by using brackets
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How to quickly find…
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A book in the library
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A journal
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Search on the title of the book (don’t combine this with
the author name in simple search).
Limit your search results to Physical items in
KU Leuven
Search on the title of the journal
Limit your search results to Resource type: Journals
A specific article
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Search on the title of the article
Look up the journal title
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Performing Searches: Advanced Search
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Self-selected search terms in maximum 3
separate search panels
Using filters to reduce the number of search
results in advance.
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Performing Searches: Advanced Search
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Performing Searches: use facets
Navigate in
My results
by using facets.
Maximum
10 filters
to refine
My results.
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Performing Searches
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Limit my results to:
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Physical items = items retrieved from the
traditional LIBISnet-catalogue
Peer-reviewed= journal articles that have been
thoroughly checked by fellow scholars and
researchers before publication
Full-text online = shows online publications
Cited in WoS = scientific books and articles which
according to the Web of Science citation database
have been cited in other journal articles
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Performing Searches
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Refine my results: additional search filters:
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Resource type: filter by type of material
Creation date: filter by year of publication
Creator: filter by author or editor
Topic: filter by topic
Language: filter by language of the original publication
Source: filter by database from which LIMO has
retrieved the results
Journal title: filter by title of the journals
Library (K.U.Leuven/other institutions): filter by
K.U.Leuven library/or LIBISnet libraries where the print
copy of a hit is available
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Performing Searches
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For each limiter and filter LIMO by default shows the
three items with most results
Additional items can be viewed by clicking the Show X
more link.
Per facet you can only select one item at a time
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you can combine several facets one after the other
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Using the Search Results
Sorting results
•Relevance (default)
•Date newest
•Title A-Z
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Using the Search Results
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For each Result:
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Indication of an icon, incl. cover of books
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a short bibliographic description
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information about availability
Full text available on campus
Available in K.U.Leuven/other institutions
No full text available
Currently not on shelf
Check Details
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Using the Search Results
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For each Result:
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depending on the resource type, two or more tabs
are shown :
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Physical items maximum 3:
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Electronic publications maximum 4:
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First :
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Using the Search Results
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For print items and audiovisual materials from the local
collections max. 3 tabs
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Locations:
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in which library a copy can be found
items are on shelf or not
can items be requested or not
links to relevant information in Find Library
Details:
 full bibliographic information
 one or several links e.g. ILL-request, Google Books,…
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Share:
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permalink for easy linking
bookmark or share to social bookmarking sites
print & e-mail
export link to bibliographic sofware like Reference Manager or
Endnote
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Using the Search Results
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For Online publications max. 4 tabs
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View online:
 a link that takes you to the full text
 only shown when you are “on campus”
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Details:
 full bibliographic details
 one or several links e.g. ILL-request, Find item in the library
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Recommendations:
 additional articles can be shown which might be relevant to the topic
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Share:
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permalink for easy linking
bookmark or share to social bookmarking sites
print & e-mail
export link to bibliographic sofware like Reference Manager or Endnote
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Using the Search Results : Locations
Collection
Shelf Number
Available,
but No Loan
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Using the Search Results : Locations
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Full text available:
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Using the Search Results : Locations
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Request a copy that’s borrowed:
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Using the Search Results : Locations
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Request a copy that’s borrowed:
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Using the Search Results : Details
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Request a copy in another library:
ILL-request
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Using the Search Results : Details
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Request a copy from another library
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Managing results: My account
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Managing Results: My accounts
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To check the progress of a request you’ve placed
To make a free ILL-request
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Managing Results : My account
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Select, save, my citations
Check the box and add the
items -> My citations
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Managing Results: My account
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Saving this query:
Provide a name and the query will be saved
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Managing Results: My citations
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All saved queries can be viewed by going to My
Citations
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“My account”
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Loans
 Renewing loans
 List of historic loans
Any request (stackroom, ILL)
Unpaid fines
Personal settings: address, e-mail, changing password…
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Searching databases
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Using Advanced Search, material type
databases to find a specific database:
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Extra tool: Find Databases
Use Find Database to identify additional databases of which the
content is not covered by Limo.
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Extra tool: Find Databases
Search “philosophy” in All Fields
Click on title to have access to the database
Get a short description of the database via “Show info”
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Extra tool: use Find E-Journals
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To search for electronic journals by title and by
subject (Category)
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Extra tool: use Find E-Journals
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Your Feedback!
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