tips, tricks and techniques getting the best out of trove
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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
• Authentication is by the subscribing institution or vendor, not by Trove
• These resources are in the ‘Journals, articles and data sets’ zone
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Australian Libraries Gateway
• NUC symbol – National Union Catalogue Symbol, ‘Library code’
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• Edit subscription details
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• Questions?
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
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
Searching for your library’s holdings• nuc:
nuc:ANL
More nuc searching
• Charles Sturt Universitynuc:NCSU*
• Bathurst Campus Librarynuc:NCSU\:B
To find your NUC, visit the Australian Libraries Gateway: http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/
Searching for your library’s Patrick White holdings
• creator: creator:(patrick white) nuc:ANL
Searching for items at the same Dewey number
• ddc:ddc:820 nuc:ANL
Searching for audio versions of Patrick White books
• format: format:(audio book) creator:(patrick white) nuc:ANL
Search across formats
• creator:(patrick white) nuc:ANL• Switching zones
Exact searching
• text:(patrick white)
Searching for finding aids
Some differences in newspapers• fulltext:
fulltext:”patrick white”
Searching for names which are common words
• Near searches"mr white"~2
How to improve specificity in your searches
• Searching for Daniel Davies
How to improve specificity in your searches
• fulltext:(daniel davies)
How to improve specificity in your searches
• fulltext:"daniel davies"
Searching for dates• date of publication
date:[2010 TO *], date:[2010 TO 2012], decade:192
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Searching for dates in newspapers
Searching for dates in newspapers
Advanced search screen
Questions?
All this information can be found in our Help pages: http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/searchhelp
http://trove.nla.gov.au