ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGUES (OPAC) Annamaria Kiss Central Library Semmelweis University 2014

2/45 WHAT IS THE TASK OF CATALOGUE?  To inform you about documents are owned by the library  You can search for the - title - author - subject - year of publishing - name of publisher, etc.

3/45 STEPS of SEARCHING: 1/ What do you need exactly? 2/ Which is the suitable catalogue? 3/ If you get a lot of hits, narrow your question. Use filter or ask another question. 4/ If you get few hits, widen your question or clear filters. 5/ If you don’t get any hits at all, don’t believe it. Try searching in other ways.

4/45 WHAT IS…  Filter  You can limit the number of hits with it. Usually it limits the language or type of documents or the period of publishing.  Operator  It combines two or more conditions by logical connection: OR: result will be suitable for one condition AND: result will be suitable for all conditions NOT: result will rule out the condition

SEARCH FOR PRINTED BOOKS 5/45

catalogue of the Central Library 6/45

7/45 CENTRAL LIBRARY of Semmelweis University THE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS

8/45 Browsing:

9/45 Browsing by subject heading:

10/45 The list of hits:

11/45 Advanced searching and operators:

12/45 Selected hit with details

13/45 Selected document:

14/45 The list of hits after quick search:

15/45 The list of previous searches:

16/45 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

17/45 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE - NCBI :

18/45 NCBI

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20/45 A HIT

Karolinska institutet 21/45

22/45 British Library British Library

23/45 The way of „ basic search ”: 1 question with filters: Searching field

24/45 The details of selected document:

25/45 Advanced search, limits and operators: Searching fields

ONLINE CATALOGUE OF Library of Congress 26/45

27/45 The method of basic search: you can give 1 question with search limits:

28/45 The hits of basic search:

29/45 Selected item:

30/45 In guided search: you can combine 2 questions with logical operators and search limits

31/45 Limits:

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Online books 33/45

34/45 Online books (Subscribed and Open access)

35 Ovid e-book: The title of book Searching in text

36/45 Selected part of the book:

37/45 Subject index:

38/45 List of ovid online books:

39/45 Thieme Online book:

Search for journals 40/45

41/45 SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY CENTRAL LIBRARY The catalogue of journals SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY CENTRAL LIBRARY The catalogue of journals :

42/45 The details of printed journal:

43/45 The details of e-journals:

44/45 OTHER USEFUL HOMEPAGES ON THE INTERNET  Publishers in all the world:  Book traders / Hungarian: / / foreigner:  A worldwide catalogue :  18 European national libraries :  European medical or univeristy libraries:  European libraries:  „ in western:  Medical libraries in the USA:  University libraries in the USA:

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