The University Library is currently piloting a new search
service called LibrarySearch+. It offers
a single search box for finding full text and citations from the whole of the University's
online (and print) resources content. You can even search for the title of individual
journal articles, and much of the content is provided by databases such as the
Web of Knowledge.
The pilot lasts until the end of December, please send any
comments via the ‘Feedback’ link in the top right hand corner of your search
results page.
[The following text has been adapted from a post on the University Library's eResources etc. blog here: https://eresources.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?m=201207].
What is
LibrarySearch+?
It’s a single search box for finding the full text and
citations for the majority of the University’s extensive online subscriptions.
This includes:
- Online articles from scholarly journals, covering the vast majority of the University’s subscriptions (JSTOR, Science Direct, OUP, CUP etc.
- Newspaper content.
- Major academic databases (incl. Web of Knowledge).
- Over six million catalogue records from Newton.
- Digital collections in the DSpace repository.
- Using the interface, users can easily email and export references to a wide variety of citation management tools. Advanced search options are available, including the ability to search across a single journal title.
Traditionally, libraries have put different kinds of
scholarly material into different interfaces. This meant that you had to look
in one place for books and printed journals, another for e-journals, and yet
others for full-text journal articles and news reports.
Now you can search all these formats together and get a big
picture overview of work in your field. LibrarySearch+ will even search inside
the full text of books for your keywords.
How can I manage my
search results?
You do get a lot of search results but the idea is that you
then refine them in various ways, for example by content (e.g. book, e-book,
journal article, thesis), or only review results from peer-reviewed journals or
with full text online, or by publication date.
You can use the ‘save to list’ feature which allows you to
export or email your saved items to EndNote or RefWorks or BibTex and in your preferred citation
format.
You can access
LibrarySearch+ in three ways:
- From the current LibrarySearch interface http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk/
- From the library catalogues interface http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/
- Directly from this URL http://searchplus.lib.cam.ac.uk.
Go to the libraries@cambridge Service Developments blog post
to download a user guide https://libcamdev.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=859.
