Contacts for More Information
Connection Problems and Technical Difficulties
Types of Searches
Searching Hints and Tips
Receiving Results

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• Betty M. Anderson Library
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• Education Brain Education Library
• Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections MASC Reference Inquiries
• Media Materials Services MMS Orders & Information Queries
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• Veterinary medicine and pharmacy Veterinary Medical/Pharmacy Library
WSU Spokane

• Cooperative Academic Library Service
WSU Tri-Cities
• Tri-Cities Library

WSU Vancouver
• Vancouver Library

Connection Problems and Technical Difficulties

Display
Restricted Access
Telnet Access
Willow and Java Willow Access
WSCLP

SOLUTIONS: You either have JavaScript disabled in your browser preferences or you are not using a Java compatible browser.

• Compatible browsers are available for free from Microsoft or Netscape.
• If you are using a Netscape browser, from the OPTIONS menu choose NETWORK PREFERENCES, click on the LANGUAGES tab and make sure that the ENABLE JAVASCRIPT box is checked.
• If you are using a Microsoft browser, from the VIEW menu choose OPTIONS, click on the SECURITY tab and make sure that the box labeled RUN ACTIVE X SCRIPTS is checked.
• Telnet to griffin.wsu.edu and use the character based catalog.

Restricted Access

License agreements with vendors prevent us from making many of the databases listed on the WSU Libraries Gateway generally available on the Internet. We are complying with these restrictions in two ways, either by requiring WSU users to self-identify via our telnet gateway, or by restricting access to computers with an address ending in wsu.edu. Those using computers on the WSU network or those with a WSU SLIP or PPP account should be able to access these databases. Sometimes there is an additional loginid and/or password required. Eligible users can obtain this information from reference in the library dealing with the subject of the database or on the campus with which they are affiliated.

Troubleshooting your gateway connections.

If you are having trouble connecting to one or more of the databases on our web gateway menu, the following list may explain the possible causes and solutions. For more assistance, contact Janet Chisman.

PROBLEM: You are not a WSU affiliated user so the connection is denied. Our license agreements with the vendors of certain databases (ABI/Inform, Current Contents Search, etc.) permit only WSU students, faculty and staff to use the database from remote sites. Other databases are available to everyone everywhere.

SOLUTIONS:

• Use one of the unlimited access databases, if one suits your needs.
• Come to WSU's libraries to use the databases.
• Enroll at WSU.

PROBLEM: You are a WSU user, but are using an internet address not recognized by the service provider. This is a case where access is permitted only from certain specified locations (WSU campuses, WSU SLIP or PPP internet accounts).

SOLUTIONS:

• Use a computer on the WSU network.
• Use your WSU SLIP or PPP account, if you have one.
• Use our telnet connection and identify yourself with your name, library ID, and PIN as usual.

PROBLEM: Slow or no response. The service provider's computer is "down" or the internet is slow for one reason or another.

SOLUTIONS:

• Wait longer; be even more patient.
• Try again later.
• Come to the library and use our print resources - then you'll really know what slow response is!.

Telnet

PROBLEM: Browser cannot make a telnet connection

SOLUTIONS:

• Tell the browser where your telnet program is located on your computer. From your browser, look for an option that asks about supporting applications. For example, in Netscape 3.0 under the Options menu item, General Preferences option is a place to put the location information (drive:directory\subdirectory\filename.file extension) about telnet. Just type in the location of your telnet application and you will be able to use it from your browser.

• If you can't figure out how to configure your browser, copy down the telnet address of the resource (often it is given on the web page or View document source code to find it. It will look something like this HREF=telnet://address resource name. You want the address information between the // and the >. Exit your browser and go to your telnet program and use the address directly from the program.

• Obtain a telnet program and then use as in the two options above.

Willow and Java Willow Willow is a program developed at the University of Washington that provides a single, easy-to-use graphical user interface for personal computers (PCs) to Current Contents Search, ERIC, Medline, and the joint catalog of the six Washington state colleges and universities WSCLP.

On the WSU Libraries Gateway we are using a beta version of Java Willow which is currently under development and may be subject to abrupt changes or actual disruption of service. However, because it provides such an excellent interface for PC's we decided to use it anyway. There is an alternate telnet connection for MAC users and for PC users if for some reason JavaWillow is not responding .

WSCLP

Types of Searches

Author
Title
Subject
Word
Call numbers

Author

These are "phrase searches" in which you may enter as much or as little as desired. The system will retrieve all the records containing entries which begin with the characters entered in the search statement (note that the search statement is matched against the beginning of the heading).

For example,

• keying an author search for "SMITH" or "smith" or "Smith" will retrieve all of the records containing "Smithsonian", as well as all those containing "smith".
• Entering "sm" will retrieve all records containing authors whose names begin with "sm", such as "Smythe", "Smart", etc.

Entries for personal authors are stored with the last name first; thus, a search, for "placido domingo" would not retrieve records containing the author "domingo, placido" (in searching for "placido domingo", Griffin looks in the 'P's in the author index instead of the 'D's).

If your personal author is not found you will be placed in the author index and given the following message:

Your entry Placido Domingo would be here ------ Change search to Domingo, Placido

At this point you can click on Domingo, Placido to have this search performed.

Title

These are "phrase searches" in which you may enter as much or as little as desired. The system will retrieve all the records containing entries which begin with the characters entered in the search statement (note that the search statement is matched against the beginning of the heading).

For example,

• keying a title search for "mill on the floss " will retrieve
  • Mill On The Floss
  • Mill On The Floss A Natural History
• Entering "mill" will retrieve all records containing titles beginning with "mill", such as
  • Mill
  • Mill A Collection Of Critical Essays
  • Mill And Factory
  • Mill And Factory For Plant Operating Management
  • Etc.
• HOWEVER, keying a search on "floss" will not retrieveMill on the Floss since this title does not begin with with word floss.

Subject

exact form =  Agriculture  Washington  History
rotated form =	Washington history agriculture
rotated form  =	history agriculture washington
exact form = Walker, Alice
rotated form =	Alice Walker

Word

The words can be entered in any order but all must be present for a record to be retrieved. Word searching has a variety of search options which allow fairly sophisticated searching. See Searching Tips -- Word Search for more information on these features.

If you find an item using the word search, click on a subject heading to see other items on this topic or click on the call # to see other items that are next to it on the shelf.

NOTE:Griffin searches for the entered words in all of the keyword indexed fields in each record; this means, that if multiple words are entered, Griffin might retrieve records which contain those words in different fields (as well as in the same fields). For example, a search for "New Mexico" would retrieve a record which contained the title field "Mexico-United States relations" and the Uniform title heading "Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the city of New York".

Call Numbers

Library of Congress
Dewey
U.S. Government Documents
Local
• Compact Storage
• Jackson Documents
• Manuscript Materials
• Media
• WSU Theses & Dissertations

Call numbers tell you where an item is on the shelf once you have gotten to the right library or area of the library. They are the item's shelf address. If you have a call number already, you can also do a search on that number to find out in which library or area of the library it is located. There may also be information on whether the item is in use or on the shelf. There are several different call numbering systems used within the WSU Libraries:

• Library of Congress (LC)- LC call numbers are found on most items purchased from the mid-1960's to the present. You can search by LC call number by choosing the LC option. Here is how an LC call number appears in the catalog:

  TA357.H3

  This is for a book by Hansen, Arthur G. with the title Fluid Mechanics This is what each line means:

  TA--General Engineering
  357--Fluid mechanics
  H3-- The initial of the author's last name with a number code for the spelling of the name. This last line is read as a decimal.

  LC Classification divides all knowledge into classes. This system uses a combination of letters and numbers. Here are the major divisions:

  A -- General Works
  B-BJ -- Philosophy and Psychology
  BL-BX -- Religion
  C -- Auxiliary Sciences of History
  D --History: General and OldWorld
  E-F -- History: America
  G -- Geography
  H -- Social Sciences
  J -- Political Science
  K -- Law
  L -- Education
  M -- Music
  N -- Fine Arts
  P -- Language and Literature
  Q -- Science
  R -- Medicine
  S -- Agriculture
  T -- Technology
  U -- Military Science
  V -- Naval Science
  Z -- Bibliography and Library Science

  These major divisions are subdivided by adding more letters and numbers.

  For example: DC (History of France), NA680 (20th Century Architecture):

  Items are shelved in call number order starting with the first letter(s):

  L

  LB

  M

  ML

  When items have the same first letter(s), they are arranged in order by the first number, which is treated as a whole number:

  D15

  D123

  D502

  D1766

  D1766.5

  When items have the same first letter(s) and number(s), the next elements are arranged in alphabetical and decimal number order:

  L11.A34

  L11.A5

  L11.A54

  L11.B3

  The call number with "A34" comes before the one with "A5" since the decimal .34 is smaller than the decimal .5. The call number with "B3" comes after the one with "A54" since the third line is arranged in alphabetical order first, then by decimal number when the letter is the same.

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• Dewey - Dewey Decimal System call numbers are found on older materials cataloged before the mid-1960's. You can search on a Dewey call number by choosing the Dewey option. Here is how a Dewey call number appears in the catalog:

  979.785P889s

  This is for the book Spokane and the Pacific Northwest by Orville Pratt.

  979 indicates history of the Western U.S.
  979.785 indicates the history of Spokane.
  P889 indicates the author's name, and is read as a decimal.
  P889s indicates the first letter of the title.

  The Dewey Decimal System divides knowledge into ten classes:

  000--General Works
  100--Philosophy
  200--Religion
  300--Social Sciences
  500--Pure Science
  600--Technology
  700--The Arts
  800--Literature
  900--History

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• U.S. Documents - U.S. documents have numbers assigned by the Superintendent of Documents. You can search on a United States document number by choosing the U.S. Doc's option. Superintendent of Document (SuDoc) call numbers numbers are assigned based on the agency issuing the document. For example, Department of Defense documents begin with a D, Commerce with a C, Interior with an I, and so on. A SuDoc number looks like this: D104.11 Su7/11.

  All the numbers following the first letter of a SuDoc call number are whole numbers, even those following what looks like a decimal but you can think of as a period. The numbers following the second letter of a SuDoc call number are decimal numbers. SuDoc numbers are placed on the shelf in the following order:

  D 104.11:Su7/11

  D104.11/2:In8

  D106.2:D67

  D106.2:D8

  D106.10:C86

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• Local Call Numbers
  • Compact Storage - older, little-used materials are placed in compact storage to minimize the amount of space they occupy. Compact storage call numbers are just sequential and have no relation to the subject of the material.

  • Jackson Documents - this numbering system was used for state, foreign and United Nations documents up to 1980. In this system each document was assigned an initial letter which corresponded to the type of government agency issuing the document. For example, state document call numbers begin with M; documents issued by nations have call numbers which begin with P; United Nations and other international agency call numbers begin with T. Since 1980 these types of documents have been placed in the Library of Congress call number system.

    Jackson documents are placed on the shelf in the following order:

    MV 25 BD V818

    MW 11 CHE PU 9 F491c

    MW 11 CHE PU 9 F491d

    MW 11 CHE PU 9 R2995

    MW 11 CHE PU 9 R57

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  • Manuscript Materials

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  • WSU Theses and Dissertations - Theses and dissertations completed at Washington State University are given a call number that begins with WSU, followed by a letter/number coding for the department, the date the degree was granted and another letter/number combination keyed to the author's last name.

    These call numbers look like this: WSU C6 1993 F5.

    They are shelved with the Library of Congress books alphabetically in the W's in the following order:

    WSU C6 1991 F5

    WSU C6 1993 F5

    WSU D5 1987 B29

    WSU D5 1987 B3

    WSU Z4 1968 A2

Other Numbers

• ISSN - International Standard Serial Number is a unique number assigned to every serial (a publication that is published over a series of years under the same name.) Searching on this number is often a quick way to locate journals and magazines.

  An ISSN number looks like this: 0003-3472

  CAUTION: Not every journal or magazine owned by the libraries has an ISSN in the record. If you do not find the item you want with this type of search, try a title or word search.

• ISBN - International Standard Book Number is a unique number assigned to every book published. Searching on this number is often a quick way to locate a specific book. These numbers are often included in references you might obtain from other databases.

  An ISBN looks like this: 1-57231-303-0 or 1-56884-641-x

• OCLC - Online Computer Library Center numbers are given to each item in the WorldCat database available from OCLC. At WSU you can find WorldCat as one of the databases available via the FirstSearch system. The OCLC number is the first number on any record retrieved via WorldCat.

  For example, here is the WorldCat record for Gorillas in the Mist.

  ACCESSION: 29402560
  AUTHOR: Fossey, Dian.
  TITLE: Gorillas in the mist /
  PLACE: Boston, Mass. :
  PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin,
  YEAR: 1983
  PUB TYPE: Book
  FORMAT: xviii, 326 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
  NOTES: Includes index..
  Bibliography: p. [287]-311.

  The OCLC number is the one labelled ACCESSION. It can be used to search in Griffin and is also useful if you are requesting an item via Interlibrary Loan.

Searching Tips

General Hints and Tips
Word Search
Boolean Operators (Logical Connectors)
• OR
• AND
• NOT
• Word Versus Subject Searches
• Advanced Word Search
  • Parentheses
  • Nesting
  • Parenthetical Expressions
  • Syntax
  • Priority Order of Boolean Operators
  • Boolean Search without Parentheses
Expanding a Search - What to do when you don't get enough
Limiting a Search - What to do when you get too much
Being Exact - Preventing the System from Retrieving Alternate Endings

General Hints and Tips

Capitalization
Exploring other search options
Punctuation
Sort
Stopwords
Variant spellings
Wild card/truncation

• Capitalization can be ignored; the system is case insensitive. You can use capital letters, lower case or a combination.
• Explore other search options by clicking on the down arrow on screens where there is a box with a down arrow.
• Punctuation is optional.
  • The ampersand (&) is treated as if it were the word "and" spelled out.
  • Apostrophes are removed.
  • Most other punctuation marks are replaced by spaces for purposes of searching

  Examples of equivalent searches:

  All the King's Men = All the Kings Men
  Fathers & Sons = Fathers and Sons
  O'Malley, Walter = Omalley Walter
  Mexico--history = Mexico history
  U.S. News = U S News = U. S. News

  NOTE:
  While the above three "U.S. News" entries are equivalent to each other, they are NOT equivalent to "US News" (since there is no space between the 'U' and 'S')

• Sort results by year by clicking on the limit/sort button and then choosing sort. This produces a list of items in reverse chronological order (newest first).

• Stopwords are short, frequently-occurring

  a

  an

  and

  as

  at

  be

  but

  by

  das

  der

  des

  eine

  for

  from

  he

  in

  is

  ist

  it

  las

  les

  los

  of

  on

  that

  the

  this

  what

  who

  with

  zur

  words which slow down processing time on the system when they are searched. Most databases have a list of stopwords that the system ignores during a search. In addition to all one-letter and two-letter words, Griffin's standard stopword list consists of words in the table.

  If you have questions, ask library staff for assistance.

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• Consider variant spellings such as `behavior' and `behaviour', `color' and `colour'
• Wild card (truncation symbol) is an asterisk (*). The wild card can be used in WORD searches and for limit/sort option only.
  • Use the wild card to retrieve variations on word endings, but use caution.

    for example -----> cat* retrieves cat, cats, caterpillar, catharsis, etc.

  • Do not truncate on an abbreviation that is not a true stem.

    for example -----> natl* for national

Word Search

• OR
  • use the connector OR in a WORD search to search for any of several alternative terms at once.
    for example, the search statement

    paternal or father

    retrieves any record that has either of these words or both of them.

  • Use OR to search for variant spellings
    • cataloger or cataloguer
    • behavior or behaviour
    • sulfur or sulphur
  • Use OR to expand a search resulting in more items being retrieved because you have broadened the search to include synonyms and variant spellings.

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• AND
  • Use the connector AND to combine terms in a WORD search.
  • AND means that all search terms connected by an AND must be present in records retrieved.
  • If no connector is used between multiple words, the system searches as if AND has been used to combine the terms.

    for example ---> grains AND cereals or just ---> grains cereals

    retrieves only records in which BOTH grains and cereals appear.

  • Using AND NARROWS a search because you are requiring more words to be present at the same time.

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• NOT
  • Use the connector NOT (or NO) between words in a WORD search to exclude a term.

    for example ---> lizards not reptiles

  • CAUTION: In the above example if there is a book dealing with both lizards and reptiles it will be excluded. You may therefore lose some information so you should use NOT with caution.

When To Use a WORD Versus a SUBJECT Search

• When you know only one or a few key words in the title, subject, contents, or sponsoring organization.
• When you want to combine search terms using Boolean operators (logical connectors) to broaden or narrow your search.
• When you want to use the wild card (truncation) symbol
• When you want to broaden your search to the title, subject, contents, or sponsoring organization parts of the Griffin records.

However, a WORD search may retrieve records which are not relevant to your specific need.

for example ---> depression

retrieves records in which "depression" appears, without regard tothe subject, which may be history, economics, psychology, geology, meteorology, astronomy, etc.

Advanced Word Searching

• Using parentheses in a WORD search groups terms that you want to search as units

  for example ---> (manic depression) or (bipolar disorder)

  retrieves all records in which "manic" and "depression" both appear, and all records in which "bipolar" and "disorder" both appear.
  

  You may use connectors AND, OR, and NOT to specify logical operations

  for example ---> (herbal or dietary) supplements

  retrieves records in which "supplements" appears, along with either "herbal" or "dietary"

• Nesting- You may use parentheses to nest logical expressions within one another.

  for example ---> gangs and ((los angeles) or (new york))

  retrieves records in which "Los" and "Angeles" and "gangs" appear, and records in which "New" and "York" and "gangs" appear. This search could also be input without nesting as

  (gangs and los and angeles) or (gangs and new and york).

  Nesting means less typing as long as you do it correctly.

• Parenthetical expressions

  If a search contains parenthetical expressions, Griffin will process the search logic within the parenthese first. If there are parenthetical expressions within parenthetical expressions, the system will process search statements in the innermost parenthese first and move outward from there.

  For example, the search expression "(islamic or mohammedan) law" is equivalent to "(islamic law) or (mohammedan law)".

  In the first instance the system finds all records with either term "islamic" or "mohammedan" and then looks within that set of records for those that also have the term "law".

  In the second search the system finds all records with "islamic" and "law" in them, then all records with "mohammedan" and "law". These results are then presented together in one result statement.

  Parenthetical expressions can contain the Boolean logical operators AND, OR and NOT (or NO); also, they can be nested.

  For example,

  ((environment* or ecolog*) and sound) not (toxic* or carcinogen* or teratogen*)

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• Syntax

  If a search statement has incorrect syntax (e.g., two logical operators have been entered in succession, "sonatas not (baroque and or piano))", Griffin will display a message stating the problem and will re-display the search expression, indicating by a caret ^ under one of the words where Griffin discovered the error. If an error occurs, the search statement must be re-entered. Below you will find a list of the syntax error messages with examples of the errors:

  Syntax error messages for parenthetical keyword searches

  • Consecutive Boolean operators 'AND' or 'OR' not allowed
    criminal (justice and or courts)

  • syntax error at 'and'
    Boolean operator 'AND' or 'OR' cannot follow '('
    criminal justice (and courts or youth)

  • syntax error at ')'
    Boolean operator 'AND' or 'OR' cannot precede ')'
    criminal (justice or )

  • syntax error at 'and'
    Boolean operator 'AND' or 'OR' cannot follow 'NOT'
    criminal (courts not and justice)

  • syntax error
    Unbalanced number of ( and ) symbols
    criminal (justice or courts

  • syntax error at 'and'
    The search statement cannot begin with the Boolean operator 'AND' or 'OR'
    and (courts or justice) not criminal

  • syntax error
    The search statement cannot end with the Boolean operation 'AND', 'OR' or 'NOT'
    criminal (justice or courts) and

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• Priority Order of Boolean Operators

  It is important to know the order in which Griffin interprets and processes complex Boolean search requests. Griffin does the following:

  1. Processes all parentheses starting with the most deeply nested one:
     • A. Attaches all NOT operators to the words following (or already processed parenthetical expression)
     • B. Processes all AND operations
     • C. Processes all OR operations
  2. Attaches all NOT operators to the following words or parenthetical expressions
  3. Processes all AND operations (including adjacent words)
  4. Processes all OR operations
• Example of the Application of Priority Order
  (This is an example of a search which does not contain parentheses. Similar principles apply to searches which do contain parenthetical expressions.)
  Consider the WORD search: "soviet union or united states". Griffin will find all records which contain both the word "soviet" AND the word "union" in keyword indexed fields. Then it will find the records which contain both the word "united" AND the word "states" in keyword indexed fields. Then Griffin will process the OR, displaying all records which either contain the words "soviet" and "union" OR "united" and "states".
• Notes on Boolean Searching Without Parentheses
  • Griffin processes the search statement as if there were parentheses around each AND expression, that is:

    (soviet and union) or (united and states)

  • Griffin processes NOT and the following word as a unit, "unions NOT credit NOT monetary" would be:

    unions and (NOT credit) and (NOT monetary)

Limiting a Search

• YEAR of publication--limits to a specific year or range of years of publication. For years prior to 1900, backspace over the prompt and type.
• MATERIAL TYPE--the format of the item. Includes manuscripts, music, maps, audio-visual media, spoken word, 2-D graphics, software/data files, kits, and 3-D objects.
• JOURNAL/SERIAL--choose serial to limit to newspapers, magazines, periodicals or journals; choose monographs to limit to books.
• LANGUAGE--the primary language of the work.
• PUBLISHER--limits to those items with a specific publisher (e.g., Josey-Bass).
• WHERE ITEM IS LOCATED--limits to location (specific library or location within a library) that you select from the list of locations
• WORDS IN THE TITLE--limits to items having the words you specify in the title; word order does not matter.
• WORDS IN THE AUTHOR--limits to items having author words you specify.
• WORDS IN THE SUBJECT--limits to items having subject headings matching words you type.

In the best records you have found, examine the words in the article titles and subjects. Do a WORDS search using the best word(s) from these.

If you have questions, ask library staff for assistance.

Expanding a Search

Omit a word, perhaps one of the narrower ones
Try a WORD search rather than a SUBJECT search
Use the ROOT of a word to get alternate endings
• SUBJECT, TITLE, or AUTHOR searches automatically on root words (truncates) to retrieve words with alternate endings.

  for example ---> solz retrieves the author Solzhenitsyn
  for example ---> snow retrieves subjects such as Snow, Snow bunting, Snowboarding, Snowden, Snowy owl, etc

• Truncate in the WORD search or in a LIMIT option. for example ---> garden*

  retrieves words in which "garden" is a root (garden, gardener, gardening, gardens, etc.).


In a WORD search use more synonyms, alternative spellings and word endings, singular and plural. For example:
• paternal or father
• behavior or behaviour; hemoglobin or haemoglobin; sulfur or sulphur
• environmental or environment or environments
• cat or cats
• mouse or mice

In the best records you have found, pick the one subject that best meets your needs, click on it to retrieve records with that subject heading.

In the best records you have found, examine the words in the article titles and subjects. Do a WORDS search using the best word(s) from these.

If you have a question, ask library staff for .

Being Exact

In TITLE, SUBJECT, or AUTHOR searches, you may use | to restrict retrieval to the specific term you enter (to prevent the system from searching the term as a root word).

for example ---> stranger|

retrieves the title Stranger, but not Stranger among us, Stranger in a strange land, Strangers, etc.

In WORD searches, the | is not necessary, because the system automatically searches just the word you specify.

for example ---> stranger

retrieves just "stranger" in a WORD search.

If you have a question, ask library staff for assistance.

Receiving Results

Displays
• Expanded Display
• Full Display

Printing what you've found
Downloading it all (Save to a file)
Citations to go: Email

• Expanded Display - click on the expanded display button from the summary display screen to obtain more information on each item in the summary display. The additional information in expanded display is usually the library location of the item. Use full display to get the call number which tells where in a library location the item is shelved.
• Full display - click on a particular item to see the full display with locations and call numbers.

• Outside the library - use the print capabilities of your browser.
• Inside the library - use a Griffin workstation with a printer attached.

Download

• Outside the library - use the save capabilities of your browser.
• Inside the library - different computers in the libraries are secured in different ways. Some will allow downloading and others will not. Please talk to a reference librarian or staff member when you know you will want to download so you can be directed to a computer with this function enabled.

Email

• Mark the items you want to send
• Click the export button
• Click the export list button when you have exported the items you want
• Choose to send to email
• Choose the format you want
  • Pro-Cite - a software package that allows you to create your own database of citations/references you retrieve from electronic databases. References must be in a specific format to be imported into the ProCite database.
  • Full display - format most used by those just wanting to receive a readable, understandable citation/reference which can be used in bibliographies put together with word processing software. Gives all the information in a record with each part of the record labelled with identifying tags.
  • End-Note -a software package that allows you to create your own database of citations/references you retrieve from electronic databases. References must be in a specific format to be imported into the EndNote database.
  • MARC - (MAchine Readable Cataloging) a format usually of interest to librarians and catalogers. Gives all the information in a record with each part of the record labelled by a number.
• Click on the continue button.
• Enter your email address - BE SURE TO USE YOUR COMPLETE, CORRECT ADDRESS or mail will not get to you.