2. Unlocking the LawBod for BCL/MJurs Elizabeth Wells Bodleian Law Library MT 2010

3. Library PCs: Need OLIS username & password

4. What’s my OLIS ID?  Above barcode on your University Card is a Number OLIS Password Default = dob 01jan2000 IDEALLY change it! How? Via Patron Functions on OLIS 1234567

5. Back to Basics  Searching the catalogue for books & e-books (not chapters) and journals (titles not abbreviations nor articles)  SOLO http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk  OLIS http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/  ASR Automated Stack Request

7. Search for title Vagueness in law If happy to read e-book Click here SIMPLE TITLE SEARCH ON SOLO HOMEPAGE

8. Need to click on “Open source in a new window” To read it

9. E-books at home If outside OU network, Sign in with your Oxford Single Sign On/Webauth/Herald Username & Password

11. FINDING OLD STYLE BOOKS

13. New search If you leave choice to “That contain my query words”

14. Simple search operators SOLO assumes AND Eg cats dogs = cats AND dogs  USE OR to search on alternatives simultaneously e.g. cats OR felines.  Use NOT to exclude a term e.g. cats NOT dogs.  Use brackets to clarify complicated searches e.g. Iceland (history OR culture).  Truncation = an asterisk e.g. America* to search for America, American, Americans etc.  Use ? as a wildcard within a word e.g. wom?n for women OR woman.

15. SOLO: Advanced search

16. Pro Solo  Log in with Oxford Single Sign On user name and password to get off campus access to online/electronic resources eg  Log in with OSSO to get e-shelf

17. SOLO’s E-shelf

19. Should be able to save searches too

20. USE e-shelf as an aide memoire NOT as bibliography compiler Can Change

21. Con SOLO  Very recently updated ……  Time delay – slower to update than OLIS  “Journal articles (beta)” AVOID  Be sure to sort results by “Date – Newest”

22. Introducing ASR  On SOLO search for book with title  Rancor and reconciliation  Find out its Locations

26. Drop down Reading Room Options Law Main Desk is LAW BOD

27. Optimistic timeframe

28. OLIS (Oxford Libraries Information System)  Union catalogue  Accessible from anywhere in the world at www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/  Two interfaces: the same data

29. Why use OLIS?  Older – more stable  Real time updates  Automated Stack Request  To change OLIS ID When not to use OLIS? When trying to Access e-books off campus

34. Patron function to change OLIS password

35. USING OLIS TO SEARCH THE CATALOGUE

36. Use drop down menu for Author, Title, Subject searches

38. Closest match will be in bold If there is an e- version it will be below

39. Click here to see which libraries have it but not exact shelf marks Law Library Means LawBod To get shelfmark click on title/author link

40. Click Author’s name to search catalogue for all books where he’s sole author, joint author or editor Click on a subject to search all the catalogue

41. If the first word of the title is a definite or indefinite article (the, a, an, le, el, il, or der etc) SKIP it!

43. Drop down options include ISBN and ISSN

47. http://ox.libguides.com/law-home

48. Plenty of help  Online help links  Explanatory leaflets available in the Main Reading Room  Ask a Librarian – that’s why we’re here!