WISER Social Sciences:SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online)

Angela Carritt

User Education Coordinator

What is SOLO? What does it cover?

OLIS: The Library Catalogue•Books / E-books

•Journals•Official & Government Papers

•Pamphlets•Reports

•Papers….

OU e-Journals•A-Z of online journals

Oxlip+•-A-Z of databases

•Subject list of databases•Options to Cross Search and

manipulate databases

ORA (Oxford Research Archive)•Repository of research papers

written by Ox Uni membersincludesOU e-Journals

•A-Z of online journals

includesOU e-Journals

•A-Z of online journals

SOLO•Books / E-books

•Journals / E-journals•Official & Government Papers

•Pamphlets•Reports

•Papers….• Oxlip+ A-Z of databases

•ORA research papers written by Ox Uni members

SOLO

Includes:OU e-Journals

•A-Z of online journals

includesOU e-Journals

•A-Z of online journals

What’s where?

• OLIS for books/e-books, journals etc + e-journals (http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/)

• Oxlip+ for databases + e-journals (http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk/)

• OU e-Journals just for e-journals! (http://ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk/)

• ORA for research papers by University members (http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/)

• SOLO: All of the above but less functionality (http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/)

SOLO homepage

OLIS and other collectionsSearches for books, journals, e-books, e-journals, papers etc plus papers in the Oxford Research Archive

Articles & Databases samplerRuns a basic “Google style” search over a small pre-selected set of online resources. Of limited use to researchers.

Searching SOLO:OLIS & Other Collections

What can I search for? / What should I put in the box?•Titles (of books, journals, publications…). Note search for journal titles NOT article titles•Authors•Subject keywords

What can I search for?

Simple search by title / author

To search for a specific title enter the most significant words from the title / author. SOLO will find items including all the words you have entered

To find out where the book is or to order/reserve it click

For more info click on the title

More information & “getting” the book

SFX: to check for online version (for journals)

Libraries which hold the item

To request a copy from the stacks

Getting it!

University card barcode number

Stack requests

If you don’t know your password ask at your library

Narrowing down… If you’re looking for a common title narrow down your search using the drop down boxes

Limit your search to books, journals, audio-visual…

Only return items which include the exact phrase you entered.

Only look for words in the title, author, subject etcLimit to a particular

library or to online only

Connecting to online resources

To connect to full text

Connecting to online resources

Date coverage for Chadwyck

Most journals are available from more than one database or supplier. Choose which one to use by looking at the date coverage and then click “Go”. Filling in the year, vol, issue boxes is optional!

Date coverage for HeinOnline

Date coverage for JSTOR

Date coverage for Project Muse (No end date = ongoing)

Date coverage for Swetswise (No end date = ongoing)

More searches: look out for different versions!

Look out for different “versions”. Different versions include different/newer editions and versions in different formats (e.g. online). These “versions” are hidden. To see them click

Re-sorting results

By default results are sorted by relevance. To see the most recent items first choose “Date-newest”.

Refining your search by topic, author, date…

Narrow down your results by choosing a topic, library, creation date or author.

Once you have chosen one topic you will be able to narrow your results further

Refining your results: cancelling refinements

Cancel refinements

Finding more results

When you have found an item which is good for your research look at the “subjects” listed. To see other items sharing the same subject click on the link

You will also find suggestions to find similar items at the bottom right corner of every search screen

You can search SOLO for eresources by title. Only suitable if you already know the name of the eresource

Searching for e-resources

SOLO: Further Functions

Sign in to SOLO to add items to an e-Shelf, set alerts, access subscription resources, tag and review items

Adding items to your e-shelf

Add to your eshelf

Using your e-shelf

Send to Endnote on the web

Email / Print etc

Organise items into folders

Setting up e-mail alerts and RSS feeds

Receive updates about new items which meet your search criteria in your RSS feed reader

Receive updates about new items which meet your search criteria by email

Tagging

Add your own tags (topics) to this item

Tagging

Enter tags

Choose from your existing tags

Searching with tags

SOLO: Articles & Database sampler

Sampler searching… Health warning

Pros• Searches several online

resources simultaneously• Returns one list of results• Easy to use

Cons / Health Warning• Only searches about 30% of

online resources ( may not included key databases for your subject)

• Slow• Little control over your

search terms

For serious research• Find out which are the best online resources for your

research (Oxlip+ / Librarians)• Connect to each online resource separately and search

using its own interface

This search won’t work unless you select a subject collection

Searching the Articles & Databases sampler

Results look similar to searching OLIS & other collections but here we are looking at articles and other resources from online resources such as the Social Science Citation Index

Articles and databases sampler: Results

OLIS: The Oxford Libraries Information Systems

•www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis•Guides @ www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/documentation

SOLO v OLIS

SOLO• Searches more

(OLIS + ORA + Online resources by title)

• E-shelf• Alerts / RSS• Facets make it easy to

narrow down your search• Includes links to Tables of

Contents, Book jackets etc

OLIS• Offers “patron functions”

(stack requests, renew / reserve books)

• Browse options for titles, authors, subject heading etc

• More search options – search a wider range of fields

• More precise searching