1. 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
OLIS: Oxford Library catalogue
Other electronic resources, including databases and e-journals
Single sign on information

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