Understanding your search results

Complete any search (for example, the one in the illustration on the previous page) and look at the results. A great deal of information is available here -- we will point out a few features.

The Mark boxes

The small white pointer in the illustration above shows one of the Mark boxes. Select a record you wish to save by clicking to place a little check mark in the box. When you print or email your results, you can choose to send only the marked records you have selected. To print or email these records, see the instructions below.

The Email button

Send a set of selected records to yourself as an email message. Click the button shown near the GREEN arrow above. A dialogue box will open. You can choose to send only the marked records (see Mark boxes, above), in brief or detailed form; supply your email address, and they will be sent directly to you.

We recommend that you choose HTML as your Record Format. That way, if the records contain any links to full-text articles, you will be able to link directly to the full-text article from your email message. Those links remain valid for one week after you send them.

View Full Text on remote site (ATLA)

If you see this message in any record, you will be able to click on it and go directly to a full-text scanned image of the article in an electronic version of that journal. The message is located beside the RED arrow above. It may say View Full Text in GIF format (ATLA), or another format such as HTML or PDF.

Follow the on-screen instructions for navigating through the article and printing pages from it if you desire. For printing instructions, see Printing full text.

See more details for locating this item

Click on the message located beside one of the YELLOW arrows above. Then, look for a line reading Local Holdings Information. If you click on that, you will see the extent of Union-PSCE's holdings of this journal on paper, along with the call number showing where it is located in the periodicals stacks.

Please note : the vendor who sells us this online service is having problems right now with their ability to display the local holdings information in the ATLA-RDB. Sometimes, this data is missing from the bibliographic record. They are working to fix this problem (or so they tell us!). If there is an article you really want to see, and the record appears to indicate that this journal is not in our collection, we suggest that you check our Library's online catalog to see whether that information is accurate. It's possible that we may own that journal after all.

Essay in a book

The record may be designated as Doc Type: Essay (see the PURPLE arrow above). This means that the article will be found in a book instead of a periodical -- an edited collection of works by many different scholars published together in book form. You will see the word In: followed by the book's title and publication data. If you click on the link that says See more details for locating this item, it will open the bibliographic record for the book.

Near the top of that record, beside the word Availability, there may be a link saying Search the catalog at your library. If you click on that link, it should take you to that book's record in the Morton Library catalog. If you don't find the record and it looks as though we don't own the book, we recommend that you try searching our catalog separately just to make sure. Sometimes this shortcut fails, even though the book actually is in our collection.

Printing a set of selected records

If you have made a search and you wish to print a set of selected records, follow these instructions. First, mark the records you want to keep by clicking on the tiny square box to the left of each record. A green check mark appears in the box. Once you have chosen the records you want, find the large button labelled Marked Records, just above the row of icons.

Click on Marked Records. You receive a new results list, containing only those records you selected and marked. Now, click on the Print button.

You will receive a printable version of the results list, and the browser's print dialogue box will open. You can then send the print command to the printer that is associated with your computer.