SuperSearch
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What is SuperSearch?
SuperSearch is a discovery tool that contains records for almost all of the items owned or licensed by CSU-Pueblo's Library, along with open access scholarly materials. Besides physical materials including print books, dvds, government documents, and maps, Super Search gives you online access to millions of scholarly articles, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, magazine and newspaper articles, streaming videos, ebooks, and primary sources.It also includes a circulation system that is used to check out library materials. Use your campus network userid and password to log into your library account. Your account lets you monitor and renew items that you've checked out from CSU-Pueblo and Morgan Library at Ft. Collins, and Prospector. You can use it to request books and other materials to be put on hold for pick up at the library's circulation desk on the first floor of the LARC building.
Personalize SuperSearch
Once you have logged into your library account, you can personalize your searching by choosing your area or major so that your search results are related to your discipline. After running a search, you'll see "Personalize" in the middle of the screen underneath the search box. Clicking on it allows you to choose multiple disciplines based on your research needs.Articles
How to Use It
To access the catalog, choose the Books and More tab on the OSU Libraries’ main page at http://library.osu.edu. From there, you can do a search or click on More Options to get access to other search options, including an advanced search.
Searching Ohio State’s catalog from library.osu.edu
Search Types
The catalog allows searching by author, title, journal title, subject, and keyword as well as specialty numbers such as the Library of Congress call number and ISBN (International Standard Book Number). There is also an option for advanced search.
Additional tips:
- Keyword searches are the broadest search, as they search all information in an item record. (The search tips in Precision Searching, are based on using keywords.)
- Subjects are a very specific set of terms that are helpful for precision searches. Often, the easiest way to find subject terms is to do a keyword search first and then look at the subject terms for those that are good matches for your topic. There is more about subject heading searching in Specialized Databases later in this section.
- The Advanced Search screen allows a few additional search capabilities, such as multiple search fields to narrow the scope of a search term. You can also limit by year range, language, location, or format.
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