Oxlip

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Oxlip
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What is Oxlip?

• A tool for finding linking to databases
• Online collections of (scholarly) materials
• Includes full text / indexes / range of formats
• Resources which the University pays for free
• Primarily used to find databases e.g.
• Do we have Scopus?... How do I connect to it?
• What biology databases do we have?
• Do we have any databases on American history?
• Which databases include statistics?
• Once youre found a database youll generally
  make your keyword search using the databases own
  search facility rather than Oxlip

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Oxlip logging in

• For full functionality you must log in to Oxlip
  (especially important if you are off campus)

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Logging in

• For full functionality Log in
• Gives you full password free access even if you
  are off campus
• Allows you to save your favourite databases

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Logging in

• Enter your Oxford single sign on username and
  password.
• same as your Oxford webmail

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Logging in
Click!
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Logging in - complete

• You are now logged in
• If you are using a public computer you should log
  out before you leave the computer. If you
  remain logged in others will be able to access
  your details (including e-mail)

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Oxlip Finding databases

• Finding databases by title and keywords and
  browsing by subject

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Finding Databases
Find Database options
Find databases by entering keywords, database
name, publisher...
Browse by subject
Find by title (by entering the database name or
browsing the A-Z).
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Find databases by name
e.g. Finding Scopus
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Finding databases results
Information about the database
Add to quick sets adds the databases to your
favourites under My Research
Connect to database.
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The information screen
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Finding databases by browsing
To browse databases by subject choose subject
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Finding databases by browsing
Multi-disciplinary resources
Subject specific resources
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Choose Go
Choose a subject
Choose a sub category (or ALL for all databases)
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Browsing results
Table view A-Z of titles
Green arrow - Database requires thin client
software. Follow the link to load the software.
NOTE you will only need to do this once.
Icons alerts you that there is something you need
to know about the database (e.g. special
software, password, registration). Check the
Legend on the right for more info
Next page of databases
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Browsing results
Brief view A-Z of titles with brief description
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The legend
Software required (follow the link to
download/install)
Special username / password required. Follow
the link to Weblearn (you will be prompted for
your SSO) to collect the password
Padlock displays when you are of campus to show
that you need to log in to Oxlip before you
can access databases.
Yellow flag shows that you will need to log in
using your Oxford single sign on even if you
have already logged into Oxlip
Registration required
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Find database by keywords or other options

• Find databases by vendor (publisher), subject,
  keywords (any words) and/or type.
• Any word searches the title, description and
  keywords assigned to each database (not the
  databases itself)

Enter keywords
Pick resource type (e.g. Full text, journal, web
site etc)
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A quick look at Web of Science

• Includes
• Social Science Citation Index
• Science Citation Index
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Sciences)

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• Web of Science - allows you to limit your search
  to one or more of
• Social Science Citation Index
• Science Citation Index
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Sciences)

Searches the whole of Web of Knowledge
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To restrict your search to one or more index
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Searching
Enter your search terms using connectors between
them OR one term or the other (synonyms) AND
both terms SAME both terms in the same
sentence - phrase
To search by subject choose Topic from the drop
down. Other options include Author, Title,
publication, etc
Restrict your search to Social Sciences
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Refine options Narrow your results by entering
more keywords or by choosing results from a
particular subject etc
Your results sorting, refining, viewing
Sort by date, times cited etc
Bibliographic details you will need these to
find the full article in print.
Title links to more information including
keywords, abstract, bibliography and citing
articles
Number of articles which have cited this article
Checks to see if full text is available online
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Printing and emailing your results
Add to marked list option is good if you want to
make several searches and collect up references
as you go. At the end choose Marked list and
then print / email etc.
To print, e-mail or save items check the boxes
and then use Print, E-mail, Add to marked
list options.
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Viewing more information abstract, cited by,
references
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Refine options Narrow your results by entering
more keywords or by choosing results from a
particular subject etc
Your results sorting, refining, viewing
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Finding full text
1. Click Find it _at_ Oxford to locate full text
2. The dialogue shows it is available from two
databases (HeinOnline and JSTOR)
3. Following the link from Find it at Oxford
takes you to the correct database but not to the
article. Find the article by choosing the correct
vol and page number
4. Full text
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Oxlip cross search
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CrossSearch What is it?

• Allows you to run a keyword search in up to 5
  databases without leaving Oxlip
• How does it work?
• You choose up to five databases
• You enter your search terms into Oxlip
• Oxlip passes your search terms to your chosen
  databases
• The databases send the results back to Oxlip
• You browse and view the results

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Cross Search

• Pros
• You can search without leaving Oxlip
• You can search up to 5 databases at once
• Oxlip gives you one list of results and removes
  duplicates

• Cons
• Most databases can not be cross searched
• Oxlip search options are more limited than using
  the databases own interface

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CrossSearch
CrossSearch automatically opens the new
databases folder on Oxlip. To change this
choose a subject from the drop down menu
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Enter search terms
Choose up to 5 databases by checking the search
boxes. Databases without tick boxes can not be
cross searched.
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Options for narrowing your search
Link to full text if available
Add to your personal eshelf within Oxlip
BEWARE - Cross search results are generally not
as good as results from the native interface
(i.e. results gained by searching each databases
own interface)
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Oxlip my research
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My Research personal storage area
Search history (from CrossSearch)
Selected records from CrossSearch session

• Favourite databases.
• Databases can be stored here as favourites.
• Create quick sets of your favourite databases
  that you can then search using Cross Search.

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My Research My databases
My databases shows databases youve added to
Quicksets
Databases can be organised into folders