1. tips, tricks and techniques Getting the best out of Trove

2. Accessing eResources through Trove Trove currently contains records from selected subscription databases If these records are for full-text items, they are indexed and linked to by Trove Authentication is by the subscribing institution or vendor, not by Trove These resources are in the ‘Journals, articles and data sets’ zone

10. Australian Libraries Gateway NUC symbol – National Union Catalogue Symbol, ‘Library code’ http://nla.gov.au/apps/libraries

11. Edit subscription details

13. Questions?

14. Command searching in Trove Can be done in simple search box Multiple words assumed AND search Boolean AND, OR, NOT Fuzzy search Other search syntax

15. Command searching in Trove nuc: (National Union Catalogue symbol) creator: Dewey Decimal Classification – ddc: format: Exact searching Searchable resources – finding aids Newspapers Common words Dates Advanced search

16. Searching for your library’s holdings nuc:  nuc:ANL

17. More nuc searching Charles Sturt University  nuc:NCSU* Bathurst Campus Library  nuc:NCSU\:B To find your NUC, visit the Australian Libraries Gateway: http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/ http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/

18. Searching for your library’s Patrick White holdings creator:  creator:(patrick white) nuc:ANL

19. Searching for items at the same Dewey number ddc:  ddc:820 nuc:ANL

20. Searching for audio versions of Patrick White books format:  format:(audio book) creator:(patrick white) nuc:ANL

21. Search across formats creator:(patrick white) nuc:ANL Switching zones

22. Exact searching text:(patrick white)

23. Searching for finding aids

24. Some differences in newspapers fulltext:  fulltext:”patrick white”

25. Searching for names which are common words Near searches  "mr white"~2

26. How to improve specificity in your searches Searching for Daniel Davies

27. How to improve specificity in your searches fulltext:(daniel davies)

28. How to improve specificity in your searches fulltext:"daniel davies"

29. Searching for dates date of publication  date:[2010 TO *], date:[2010 TO 2012], decade:192

30. Searching for dates in newspapers

32. Advanced search screen

33. Questions? All this information can be found in our Help pages: http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/searchhelp http://trove.nla.gov.au