Tips, tricks and techniques Getting the best out of Trove.
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Transcript of 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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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
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 audio versions of Patrick White books
• format: format:(audio book) creator:(patrick white) nuc:ANL
Searching for dates• date of publication
date:[2010 TO *], date:[2010 TO 2012], decade:192
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Questions?
All this information can be found in our Help pages: http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/searchhelp
http://trove.nla.gov.au