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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