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WISER Humanities:
SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries
Online)
Judy Reading and
Jayne Plant
Oxford University Library Services
SOLO (Search Oxford
Libraries Online)
SOLO is a new search tool for our collections. It
encompasses: OLIS catalogue, ORA (Oxford
Research Archive), OU E-Journals and OxLIP+
(interface to electronic databases). This session
will show you how to find books and journals
and search across collections.
Key resources and services
• SOLO: Search Oxford Libraries Online
http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
• OLIS Oxford University’s union catalogue
• www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis
• Other electronic resources, including access to
databases
http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk
• E-journals catalogue
http://ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk
SOLO (Search Oxford
Libraries Online)
http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
• A new search and discovery tool for the Oxford Libraries’
vast collection of resources
• Offers a simple powerful search across OLIS (Oxford’s
union catalogue) and ORA (Oxford Research Archive)
with the potential for the inclusion of more special
collections in the future
• Includes e-books, e-journals and databases alongside
print material in results
• The Articles and databases sampler allows you to get a
quick list of useful articles for your subject
http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
The menu offers New
search (can also use
Clear search) as well as
navigation to native
interfaces and the OULS
webpage
Contextspecific help
available
Sign in to SOLO to add items to
an e-Shelf, set alerts, access
subscription resources, tag and
review items
The default search will
combine any words
entered with And ie all
words need to be in the
record for it to be
retrieved
To do a search for a specific book
enter the first few (or significant)
words in the title and the author’s
surname and click on GO.
“Get It” takes you through to OLIS
holdings as well as showing you a link
“Additional services” which include fulltext if available eg for e-journals.
Use Hold
Title to
reserve
books on
loan
Automated Stack Requests
have to be placed in OLIS not
SOLO
“Patron Functions” (such
as renewing or reserving
books) is only available in
OLIS and you will need to
login using your University
card number and OLIS
password not Oxford SSO
More about search options…
Truncation and wildcards
• Use truncation eg hist* to retrieve all
words with that stem
• Use wildcards eg wom?n for alternative
spellings
You can restrict your
search to Books, Articles,
Journals, Images or
Audio-visual material
Change to “with my exact phrase”
to combine words in your results
eg “World history”
You can choose to
look for words in
the title, as a
author/creator, a
subject or in user
generated tags
you need to
clear the
search to
remove these
limits.
You can choose to
look for your search
term in a specific
library, in OULS or
limit to Online
resources. Online
resources are
included in the results
for specific libraries.
Choose
Advanced search
to combine
searches and for
more options
SOLO offers spell-check
Results display
You can
choose to sort
your results
by relevance,
date or
popularity.
Results display
An icon tells
you at a
glance what
kind of record
you have eg
Book, Video
Results display
Click on View
details to see the
full record for a
reference from
the results list
The Details display
gives you options
such as (if
available),Table of
contents, Abstracts
and “Snippets”
Results display
Results are grouped
in SOLO so that
records with similar
bibliographic records
are pulled together. It
is worth clicking
through to see all
versions.
Results display
Limit your
results by
topic, library,
creation
date, creator
or resource
type
Results display
Scroll to the bottom of the results page to see what
to do if your search hasn’t worked and suggestions
for further searches
Results display
If you choose to
Add to e-Shelf you
can email the
reference, save it or
push it to a reference
management system
such as Refworks.
Sign in to save your
selections
Click on Sign in and then choose University of Oxford
and when prompted enter your University of Oxford
Single Sign-On (SSO) user name and password.
For more information on SSO see:
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/sers/resources/ssoathens
Click on Guest e-Shelf or e-Shelf [if logged in] to see
your selections.
View of e-Shelf
Guest
If you login to SOLO you will see
this option at the top of your results
list.
You will need to name your query
and decide whether you want to
set up an alert as well as save
the search.
Having saved a query it
will be in your e-Shelf
SOLO includes the
titles and descriptions
of e-resources like the
British Humanities
Index
Searching for e-books
SOLO includes
records for ebooks. Search by
title or try limiting a
subject search to
online resources.
Searching for theses
To find Oxford theses in
print try including “thesis”
and the Department name
in your search
Articles and databases sampler
SOLO also offers the option to search across
selected databases using:
Articles and databases sampler
Articles and databases sampler
This link allows you to see which five databases
have been selected by subject librarians for the
sampler for their subject.
Articles and databases sampler
Sampler searching..
• Can be used to quickly retrieve quality
information resources using a simple search box
across a range of resources
• Over 200 of our 800 databases are crosssearchable (ie nearly 600 are not and cannot be
included in these sets).
• To see the full list of databases go to OxLIP+.
• Key databases for particular subjects may be
excluded.
• Cross-searching is slow because it is going out
to native interfaces.
• E-journal packages eg JSTOR or Science Direct
are not included in sets because they are too
slow to search (because they are so big).
Articles and databases sampler
This search won’t work
unless you select a
subject collection.
Articles and databases sampler
You can choose to see the results
before the search is complete
Articles and Databases Sampler: Results
Results look similar to searching
OLIS & other collections but
here we are looking at articles
and other resources indexed in
databases such as the Arts and
Humanities Citation Index
Break and hands-on exercises
OLIS: The Oxford Libraries
Information Systems
• Use to renew your books, reserve a book
on loan or make a stack request
• Go direct or link through from SOLO
• Offers access to catalogue indexes, crossreferences and full notes
www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis
Guides can be downloaded from:
www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/documentation
OLIS: Library catalogue
• OLIS (Oxford Libraries Information System) provides an
index to Oxford University Library collections.
• Not all College libraries use OLIS and College
collections are not open to all University members. Ask
for reference access if they have the only copy.
All Souls has collections in history and law which are
open to other graduates.
• Some collections are not included in OLIS eg Chinese
language materials, manuscripts and older material not
yet catalogued.
OLIS catalogue
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis
Browse Searching
A browse search displays an alphabetical
list of the headings in the selected index (title,
author, subject etc.) that are closest to the
word(s)/characters you enter.
The closest match will appear emboldened.
Use when you know the exact title/author or
where the first words of the search are known.
Keyword Searching
Use the keywords search to search for items
that contain the word(s) you enter wherever they
appear in the selected field (title, subject, author,
etc).
Use when you are unsure of the exact details.
OLIS v SOLO
• OLIS is the union catalogue comprising books
and other items in OLIS library collections
SOLO is a resource discovery tool. You can
search across OLIS and e-books, e-journal titles,
database titles and ORA
• OLIS allows keyword and browse searching
SOLO only allows keyword searching
OLIS v SOLO
•OLIS offers more indexes than SOLO. Allows
more detailed searching and cross-referencing
•OLIS has subject headings.
SOLO has facets and many more links
•Use OLIS to view borrowing transactions, renew
books, place reservations and stack requests
•Use SOLO for personalised search alerts,
downloading records into bibliographic
management packages
OLIS gives fuller
catalogue records
than SOLO –
including
antiquarian book
notes
Searching for a specific book
in OLIS
• Usually the title search is the simplest option
(NB omit initial article e.g. the, a, der, le)
• You can also browse search on author (enter
surname, first name)
• or combine author and title in a keyword search
Searching for a book by
subject in OLIS
• Library of Congress Subject Headings provide a subject
index
eg Browse for “Crete” in LC Subjects
• OLIS lets you see cross-references
• Try looking at the subject terms used for indexing a book
you know to be relevant eg see what terms are attached
to Defensive architecture of prehistoric Crete / Tomas
Alusik
Other catalogues
• Go to Other options in OxLIP+, then select
Library catalogues as type and click on Go
• COPAC
• British Library Catalogue
• WorldCat
You can visit other libraries with relevant
collections or ask for an inter-library loan
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/ill
e-Journals at Oxford
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Full text access to hundreds of journal articles
Browse recent issues of journals by subject area
Download, email or print articles
Use Oxford SSO off-campus
Link through to possible full-text in databases
when you see this logo
http://ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk
SOLO includes articles,
theses and other
material from the Oxford
Research Archive – you
can browse direct from
the ORA website
Oxford University Research
Archive
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk
OxLIP+: Oxford Libraries
Information Platform
Provides access to:
• peer-reviewed and subscription based
research resources
• bibliographic tools, e.g. LION or Arts and
Humanities Citation Index, available to help you
search for articles in your research area
• Online reference works
• Offers cross-search across selected databases
• Save searches and email alerts
http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk
Further help
• Ask in any Library and we will be pleased to help
• Contact your subject librarian see
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries/subjects/librarians
• Online help and guides are available see
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/guides or from individual libraries
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See www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/wiser
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