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tips, tricks and techniques

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

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tips, tricks and techniques

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  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

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

  4. Edit subscription details

  5. Questions?

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Searching for your library’s holdings • nuc: • nuc:ANL

  9. 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/

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

  11. Searching for items at the same Dewey number • ddc: • ddc:820 nuc:ANL

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

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

  14. Exact searching • text:(patrick white)

  15. Searching for finding aids

  16. Some differences in newspapers • fulltext: • fulltext:”patrick white”

  17. Searching for names which are common words • Near searches • "mr white"~2

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

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

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

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

  22. Searching for dates in newspapers

  23. Searching for dates in newspapers

  24. Advanced search screen

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

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