Libris, LUBsearch or Lovisa?

Which one should I use?

Let’s see if we can explainthe differences!

Libris, The Swedish university and research libraries search service

Librishttp://libris.kb.se/

• Find books, theses, journals, music, e-books, etc.

• Useful when you are looking for an overview of information in a specific field of interest

• You scan the holdings of the academic libraries in Sweden but it is also possible to find books in Lund and at the RWI Library

• Note that you cannot access all of the e-resources from Libris. You might have to use LUBsearch to get full access

LUBsearch, a common access point to all the resources in

the Lund University Libraries

LUBsearchhttp://www.lub.lu.se/

• All library resources avaliable at Lund University Libraries in oneplace

• Find articles, journals, theses and books

• Find databases, eJournals and eBooks and retrieve them online

• Use your StiL/Lucat account to get access, it does not matter where you are

• Note that you get many double hits and that can be confusing and make it difficult to grasp

Lovisa, the common catalogue for Lund University Libraries

Lovisahttp://www.lub.lu.se/

• Search for books, journals, doctoral dissertations, reports, e-books and e-journals

• Apply for a library card

• Renew your loans online

• Note that you cannot

search for articles in Lovisa

The pros and cons

• All three search methods are useful

• Lovisa works well to locate books within Lund but you cannotsearch for articles. To renew loans you must use it!

• When trying to locate books in LUBsearch you automaticallyend up in Lovisa

• In LUBsearch you can locate all kinds of material but you mayencounter a lot of duplicate matches

• Libris is easy to use and it provides a lot of possibilities for advanced searches but if you find online material you mighthave to switch to the local Lund catalog to get access to it

• Libris provides you with the correct citation of many different reference systems

Did you get it? If not, never hesitate to ask a librarian close toyou.

With best regards fromKarl Adam & LottaLibrarians at Raoul Wallenberg Institutehttp://rwi.lu.se/library/