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Learn tips and tricks to help you easily find information on SearchLib

View or Get results

Depending on the resource type, you can either view online or borrow relevant results to your search.

Every result has its own bibliographic record with a complete description of the item and additional useful links and sections:

 

Send to

The first section Send to provides you with useful links to:

  • get the permalink of the bibliographic record
  • cite the resource following the most popular citation styles
  • export the citation to Refworks and other citation management tools
  • send the record via email
  • generate a QR Code to the resource

View online

If the resource is available online, you'll be able to access it through the link in the View Online section:

 

 

Additional information about authentication or registration, if required, will be displayed right under the links:

 

Get it

All information about print resources can be found in the Get it section, that shows all the copies owned by the Library for each result:

 

 

To find out where a book is located, open the Item in place arrow and click Locate. Here is the map of the Library and the exact location of the book you are looking for, described by the Library collection, shelf number, call number.

In this example, the books is located in the Library Reading rooms, on the shelf 39A and the call number on the book cover is BM.50 2610:

 

                                               

Tags

You can add as many Tags as you want to organize and remember resources. Tags are shared with the community, so you can see all the tags that are assigned to items by other users:

 

Virtual browse

Virtual Browse allows you to browse all related books available in the Library: