LibrarySearch training for Information Services staff

1. LibrarySearch for INS staff Suzanne Sheppard Web Developer, Library Management System Naomi Doessel Information Literacy Librarian, Business Team

3. known item searching

4. finding items on a topic

5. current awareness

6. bibliographic management

7. Know how to find out what is in LibrarySearch

9. Bust that myth! The catalogue is better than LibrarySearch for known item searching

10. Bust that myth! Participant was asked to find a copy of: Horngren, C. et al (2010). Accounting (6th Australian ed.). Frenches Forest, NSW: Pearson Australia.

11. Bust that myth! Results of usability studies on students and staff - July 2010

12. LibrarySearch – known item (book)

13. LibrarySearch – known item (journal)

14. Techniques for known item searching Tips for known item searching Forget field searching, treat like Googlee.g. accounting horngren6the.g. 10.1111/j.1542-2011.2010.00013.x. Use author surnames only e.g. horngren NOT horngren, c Use content types Be aware of content type pitfallse.g. journals or ejournalse.g. books or ebooksIf unsure, use:Restrict to items in the library catalog Be aware of Advanced search pitfallse.g. Can only select 1 content typee.g. Doesn’t have ejournal format limit

15. It’s a knock-out: LibrarySearch vs. Databases

17. Access to the majority of Griffith’s database content

20. From “Abstract and Indexed” journals

21. Adds an additional level of relevance to results

22. Can help you to narrow your results effectively

24. Reading the results Add to folder Citation count

25. Accessing the article Alternative access Alert options Download PDF

26. Search query handling What’s the same? Phrase search (“”) Truncation (*) Wildcard (?) Boolean operators (AND OR NOT)Note: Operators must be in capitals in LibrarySearch By default all terms are combined with AND Catalogue No stopwordse.g. the, of, an are searched No automatic stemming Field searching via dropdown menu or search forms LibrarySearch Intelligent stopword handlinge.g. The Australian returns different results to Australian Exception based stemminge.g. “aid” does not = “aids” Field searching via Advanced Search form or field:(query) e.g. ISSN:(1234-5678) Blank searches – YAY!!

27. Lights out: LibrarySearch vs. Google Scholar

28. Bust that myth! LibrarySearch doesn’t cover Elsevier journals (ScienceDirect)

29. LibrarySearch coverage Subscribe to the Summon Insider http://support.serialssolutions.com/ci/documents/detail/2/set-email

30. LibrarySearch coverage today What is included? Library catalogue records Griffith Research Online (GRO) Article level indexing for the critical mass of our journal subscriptions (about 80%) Multimedia, for example: Music from Naxos Video from Alexander Street Press Images from Luna Commons What’s not included? Griffith Image collections Specialised content types, for example: Case law Statistics Company information Standards

31. Add results beyond your library’s collection Modifies the search to include the entire Summon index with the exception of: other institutions' catalogue records private, unsubscribed A&I content Includes collections such as: Open access content Digital repositories from other institutions

33. Springer, Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Wiley, JSTOR, OUP, IEEE, McGraw Hill, Gale, ProQuest

34. Society publishers

35. ACM, IoP, AMA, American Institute of Physics, American Economic Society, IET, SIAM, ASCE

36. Open access content

37. DOAJ, Hindawi Publishing, arXiv e-prints, Hathi Trust, Project Gutenberg

38. Major authoritative bibliographic databases

39. Web of Science, Econlit, Sociological Abstracts, MLA, CSA

40. Governance and NGO databases

42. Link resolver

43. Relevancy ranking LibrarySearch Dynamic rank based on: what fields the search terms match how many times the terms match how close the terms are to each other Static rank based on: content type publication date publication in a scholarly journal record location of library catalogue Catalogue Rank based on: what fields the search terms match how many times the terms match how close the terms are to each other

44. Content type searching Archival Material Artifact Audio Recording Book Book Chapter Book Review Computer File Conference Proceeding Dissertation (Thesis / Dissertation) eBook eJournal Electronic Resource = Library databases Image (Image / Chart) Journal Journal Article Kit Map Music Recording Music Score Newsletter Newspaper Article Paper Personal Narrative Photograph Poster Presentation Publication Realia (Realia / Object) Report Special Collection Standard Trade Publication Article Video Recording Web Resource

45. LibrarySearch architecture Which databases are in LibrarySearch? It is difficult to make comparisons at the database level because Serials Solutions negotiates agreements at the publisher level. Where a publisher owns a database, it is somewhat safe to assume coverage e.g. Elsevier  ScienceDirect SAGE  SAGE Online But it is best to work at the journal title level to ascertain coverage.

46. LibrarySearch architecture Not federated search Architected like Google Pre-harvested/indexed content in a single unified index Work directly with content providers to receive the best metadata Merge metadata elements to create even better records

47. Full Text Online The record is associated with a Full Text database subscribed to by Griffith Citation Online The record is associated with an A&I database tracked by Griffith AVAILABLE The record originates in the library catalogue

48. Current awareness features

49. Questions and feedback Got a move you’d like to know how to execute? Is there anything that drives you insane about LibrarySearch? Let us know, maybe we can fix it!