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Title: WISER Humanities: SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online)


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WISER Humanities SOLO(Search Oxford Libraries
Online)
  • Kate Petherbridge
  • Jayne Plant
  • Oxford University Library Services

2
Aims of this session
  • To show you how to find books and
  • journals and search across collections using
    SOLO

3
SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online)
  • SOLO is a resource discovery tool. It
    encompasses
  • OLIS catalogue
  • OxLIP (interface to electronic databases)
  • OU e-Journals
  • ORA (Oxford Research Archive)

4
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

5
Truncation and wildcards
  • Use truncation eg hist to retrieve all words
    with that stem
  • Use wildcards eg wom?n for alternative spellings

6
Key resources and services
  • SOLO Search Oxford Libraries Online
    http//solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
  • OLIS Oxford Library catalogue
  • www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis
  • Other electronic resources, including databases
    and e-journals
  • http//oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk
  • Single sign on information http//www.ouls.ox.a
    c.uk/sers/resources/ssoathens

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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
  • Why not sign up for more WISER sessions?
  • See www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/wiser
  • Please respond to the request for feedback which
    will be emailed to you we do value your input
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