Unlocking the LawBodfor BCL/MJurs

Elizabeth WellsBodleian Law Library

MT 2010

Library PCs:

Need OLIS username & password

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 OLIS1234567

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 OLIS http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/

ASR Automated Stack Request

Search for title Vagueness in law

If happy to read e-bookClick here

SIMPLE TITLE SEARCH ON SOLO HOMEPAGE

Need to click on“Open source in a new

window” To read it

E-books at home

If outside OU network,

Sign in with your Oxford Single Sign On/Webauth/Herald

Username & Password

FINDING OLD STYLE BOOKS

New search

If you leave choice to

“That contain my query words”

Simple search operatorsSOLO 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.

SOLO: Advanced search

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

SOLO’s E-shelf

Should be able to save searches too

USE e-shelf as an aide memoire

NOT as bibliography compiler

Can Change

Con SOLO

Very recently updated …… Time delay – slower to update than

OLIS “Journal articles (beta)” AVOID Be sure to sort results by “Date –

Newest”

Introducing ASR

On SOLO search for book with title

Rancor and reconciliation

Find out its Locations

Drop down Reading Room

Options Law Main

Deskis LAW BOD

Optimistic timeframe

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

Why use OLIS? Older – more stable Real time updates Automated Stack Request To change OLIS ID

When not to use OLIS? When trying toAccess e-books off campus

Patron function to change OLIS password

USING OLIS TO SEARCH THE CATALOGUE

Use drop down menu for Author, Title, Subject searches

Closest match will be in bold

If there is an e-version it will

be below

Click here to see which libraries

have it but not exact

shelf marks

Law LibraryMeans

LawBod

To get shelfmark click on title/author link

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

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

Drop down options include ISBN and ISSN

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

Plenty of help

Online help links

Explanatory leaflets available in the Main Reading Room

Ask a Librarian – that’s why we’re here!