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E-Research is the part of the Harvard Libraries web portal
(at http://lib.harvard.edu) that allows
you to find and connect to electronic resources, such as digital texts, dictionaries,
music, images, indexes, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, and electronic journals.
Use this space to find and connect to resources to search across multiple resources
at once, to save information you’ve found, and to save sets of journals and
resources you use frequently.
- Resources in E-Research are categorized as follows:
- E-Resources: article indexes and databases, dictionaries, e-book and
e-journal collections, etc. (such as JSTOR and Science Citation Index)
- E-Journals: individual e-journal titles (such as Nature or the Chronicle
of Higher Education)
- Use the Quick Jump to Selected Major Resources in
Find E-Resources.
- The Find E-Journals
section brings electronic journals into one searchable list.
- The
Citation Linker tool using Find It @ Harvard is present in E-Research, so that you
can search for articles to which you have citations.
E-Research has several other component parts that offer different features:
- It includes space called My Research, where you can save the
results of searches you’ve done; a space to save links to the e-journals you
use most frequently; and a section that allows you to create and save sets of
e-resources.
- You might want to create saved sets of E-Resources for projects you’re
working on or courses you’re taking. These spaces, called My Citations, My
E-Journals, and My E-Resources, are intended to save you time and to give you the
means to organize references to books, articles, reviews, etc. you’ve found
while using E-Research.
- There’s also a module called
Quick Search, with
a Google-like interface, designed to let you enter a search and quickly get to
results from a few pre-selected databases related to your topic. This part of the
system is a starting point for doing a preliminary search, just as it says. We
suggest you ask a librarian for guidance, especially if your work is
interdisciplinary or if you’re working on a paper or project.
- Finally, Cross Search
allows you to find and connect to resources, to search across multiple databases,
and to cross-search sets of e-resources you’ve created. Cross Search is as
multi-faceted as Quick Search is simple.
An important note: Harvard users should log in, with
their IDs and PINs, to use the system to its fullest advantage.
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Quick Search is a module designed to allow users to search multiple library resources
in a simple, Google-like interface. It is not intended for scholarly, in-depth research,
which will require more sophisticated search methods to be found in the
Find E-Resources and
Cross Search modules. Quick
Search is a useful place to begin, as it allows users to look quickly into the contents
of multiple resources grouped by general topics or disciplines called Quick Sets. It is
easy to use and will return immediate results, much of it in full text.
The Quick Sets are composed of cross-searchable resources, and are not designed to be
comprehensive in scope or to give users a sophisticated search option. Many important
resources are not cross-searchable. For sophisticated searching, it’s best to use
the native interface of the individual e-resource.
- Select a Quick Set to search. To identify which Quick Set you should search, click Quick Set
titles to view their contents and find the set of resources most closely related to your research.
- When you have identified a Quick Set you want to search, click the radio button next to its
title.
- Enter your search terms in the search box and click GO.
Results will display in reverse chronological order (most recent first). You can re-sort by rank,
author, title, or e-resource.
- Click the title to see the full record.
- Click the name of the e-resource to see the record in the native interface.
- Click on
 to connect to full text of
the
article (if it is available) or to search for the book or journal in HOLLIS.
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Use
Find E-Resources to identify and connect to electronic resources provided by the
Harvard libraries. You can find electronic books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes
to journal articles, newspapers, image collections, data sources, and other resources
using this section of E-Research.
If you’re accustomed to linking to major resources provided in Quick Jump from
E-Resources in the portal (http://lib.harvard.edu)
to connect to the databases you use most frequently, you can still do that in the Find
E-Resources section of E-Research.
Quick Jump links appear in a pull-down menu from the main Find E-Resources page.
You can search for e-resources by title, e-resource vendor, subject, or keyword.
The default search is a title search by initial letter of the title of the e-resource
starts with). Radio buttons allow you to search for title words (contains) or for
exact titles (exact). You can also click a letter of the alphabet to see all titles
that begin with that letter.
Radio buttons below the search box allow you to display
licensed (restricted) resources, available to Harvard users, or unrestricted resources,
available to all researchers.
Enter a title, the name of a vendor, or a keyword (any word), or use the
pull-down menus to select a subject and resource type. Then click GO.
Select a subject or discipline from the pull-down menu. The right-hand side of
the menu will display the types of resources available within that subject. Select a type and click
GO to see the resources and to connect to them.
Note: If you do not see a resource listed within a
particular subject, try selecting “General” within an area such as Art and
Humanities, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sciences, or Social Sciences.
When the list of resources is displayed, click any individual title to connect to its native
interface and to search within the resource.
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Use this section of E-Research to identify and connect to
electronic journals in Harvard’s collections. You can search for e-journals by
title and by ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). Subject searching for e-journals
is forthcoming.
Using Find E-Journals
you can search for journals that are part of large collections and find information
about the volumes and issues of those journals accessible electronically.
You will also be able to see journals available on multiple vendor platforms, listed
together in a single display, with links that allow you to connect to the journal.
The buttons will also
allow you to link to the HOLLIS records for the journals to see print holdings in the
Harvard Libraries.
You can search for journals by title in several ways:
- by clicking a letter in the alphabetical array displayed to see all titles that
begin with that letter;
- by typing the first word in the journal title in the search box and clicking GO;
or
- by typing the exact title in the search box and clicking the “Exact”
radio button and clicking GO.
You can search by keyword or ISSN by clicking on keyword at the
top of the search area to bring up the keyword search box.
To find a journal by keyword, enter the keyword in the title search box (to search for
words anywhere in the journal’s title) and click the “Contains” radio
button, then click GO.
To find a journal by ISSN, enter the ISSN number (in the format XXXX-XXXX) in the ISSN
search box and click GO.
Click on the title of the journal to connect to the electronic subscription(s) available.
Click on the Find It button to connect to electronic subscriptions and to see HOLLIS
records for print issues in Harvard’s libraries.
An important note: Harvard users must log in with their IDs and PINs
to create lists of e-journals and to save them in My Research, using the
button.
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Cross Search allows you:
- to identify e-resources you want to search simultaneously
- to search Quick Sets
- to search your own sets of resources
Click on Cross Search in the first-tier menu at screen top. Cross
Search displays will differ depending on whether you are a guest user or a Harvard user
logged in with your ID and PIN.
- Select databases to search. If you have already created your own saved sets of
resources, they will appear in the "Choose E-Resource" area on the left of
the screen; "My E-Resources" will be the default selection. Otherwise, Quick
Sets will appear in the "Choose E-Resource" area.
- The pull-down menu will allow you to search Quick Sets; to find e-resources by
title, subject, or keyword; and to see new e-resources.
- You may select one of your own sets or a Quick Set to search.
- If you select a Quick Set, the contents of the set will appear on the right, in
the search area of the screen.
- If you Choose E-Resources by subject, open the pull-down menu and click on a
desired Subject and Resource Type.
- A list of resources associated with the subject and type you selected appears on
the right, in the search area of the screen.
- The
icon, by the title of the resource, indicates the resource can be cross-searched (if
it does not appear, you can click the resource title to connect directly and search
in the resource). If no Cross Search icon appears in the list, that means none of the
resources in that list are cross-searchable. Many resources are not cross-searchable.
- All cross-searchable resources will also display with a check box. The check mark
indicates a resource selected to search; if you don’t want to search that
particular resource, you can deselect it by clicking the check box (the check mark will
disappear).
- You can search the selected resources by entering terms in the box labeled
"Enter search term" just above the displayed list of resources.
Note to Harvard users: If you are connecting
from outside a library, you must log in with your Harvard ID and PIN to connect to
and to Cross Search most E-Resources. See those instructions above.
- Select databases to search. On the left side of the screen, in "Choose
E-Resource," you will see Quick Sets displayed as the default selection. The
default Quick Set is General, whose contents display in the center of the screen.
- You may select a Quick Set to search or you may take advantage of Cross
Search’s capacity to select from all of the E-Resources available, by opening
the pull-down menu to find resources by title, subject, or keyword, or to see new
E-Resources.
- If you select a Quick Set, the contents of the set will appear on the right, in
the search area of the screen.
- If you Choose E-Resources by subject, click a subject in the drop-down menu, and
a list of resource types associated with that subject will appear in the second box.
The first type in the list is the default, and the resources displayed are those in
that subject/type combination.
- If you Choose E-Resources by keyword, you can search by word, vendor, title, or
subject/type.
- The
icon, by the title of a resource, indicates the resource can be cross-searched. Many
resources are not cross-searchable. Click the title of a resource to connect to it
and to search it, if it isn’t cross-searchable.
- All cross-searchable resources appear with a check box. The check mark indicates
a resource selected to search; if you don’t want to search that particular
resource, you can deselect a resource by clicking the check box (the check mark will
disappear).
- You can search the selected resources by entering words in the box just above
the list of resources, labeled "Enter search term."
- Note the results display on the right of the screen. Results by E-Resource shows
the number of results retrieved from each resource.
- To see results from an e-resource, click the link in "Results by
E-Resource."
- Results display in reverse chronological order. They can be sorted by rank,
title, author, or e-resource, using the pull-down menu "Sort By."
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My Research saves a list of links to electronic journals. First,
you must identify each journal you wish to save. As you identify individual titles, you
can create a list of journals that you consult frequently and then use the links embedded
in your list to connect to the journals.
You can search for e-journals in E-Research @ Harvard Libraries by title, title words,
and ISSN. Subject access to e-journals is still in development.
To create and save a list of e-journals you use frequently:
- Log in with your Harvard ID and PIN.
- Click Find
E-Journals to search for journals you wish to save.
- Search for a journal by title word or ISSN.
- Click to add a title to your list of journals. The icon will change to
to indicate the title has been saved.
- Click My Research in the top menu bar, and select
My
E-Journals from the second-tier menu bar.
- The titles that you selected will appear in a list, together with
buttons,
which will
help you to locate the journals in Harvard’s print and electronic collections.
- In your results list, information on the holdings of electronic journals will
display as part of the list.
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In E-Research, you can create sets of resources and save them
in folders for easy access to their native interfaces or to cross-search them within
E-Research. You might use this feature for coursework or research projects, or simply
to make more efficient use of time.
First you must identify each resource that you wish to save. As you select each one, it
is saved in a “basket,” from whose contents you can create as many sets as
you like.
Though not all resources are cross-searchable, any resource can be saved as part of a
folder in My
E-Resources.
To create and keep a set of e-resources:
- Log in using your Harvard ID and PIN.
- Click
Find E-Resource in the menu bar at the top of the page.
- Search by title, subject, or keyword (to locate the resource you want to add to
your set).
- Click the in the Actions column (the icon will change to
indicating the resource has been selected).
- Follow these steps for each resource that you choose to add to your set.
- When you have collected all of the resources you want, click My Research in the
menu at the top of the page. The screen goes, by default, to My Citations.
- Click My E-Resources in the second-tier menu bar.
- The resources you’ve selected appear in the Basket,
on the right of the screen. You’ll need to move them into a set, and name the
set:
- Click
 in the left-hand table to create a set and then give it a name.
- Click Save.
- Click
 next to the resources you want to have in the set. They will be copied to
the left, into the set that you’re creating.
The set is automatically updated as you add resources. You can create
as many different sets as you like, and they will all be searchable in Quick Search and
Cross Search.
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In E-Research, you can select citations from search results
and save them in folders, in space provided in the My Research module. You might want to
use this feature of E-Research for projects or coursework.
We recommend that you log in with your Harvard ID and PIN, which will give you full
access to this feature.
When you have results from a Quick Search or Cross Search, you can identify records that
you want to save and create saved sets of records.
- From a list of results, select the records you want to save, by clicking
(the icon will change to indicating the record has been saved).
- Click My Research. By default, My Citations will appear. Your records appear in
a folder called "Basket."
- You can select records (click the check box at the top of the column to select all,
or select individual records) and click "Save/Send" to e-mail records or to
save them to a file on your computer.
or
- You can save them in My Research.
- In the Basket
If you click  from
the Basket display, you can save all of the records in the Basket as a named set.
The records will be copied to the set, and saved in E-Research. Records will also
continue to appear in the Basket until you actively remove them by clicking
or
- Using the Advanced Link
Click "Advanced" for more options. In Advanced mode, you can select all of
the records in the Basket by clicking the check box at the head of the column, or you
can select individual records. If you are selecting individual records, click
to move
selected records to the left table. Click in the left-hand table, to save and name the records as a set.
The records will appear in a saved set and remain in the Basket as well.
If you want to select all the records at once, click
in the right-hand
table to name and save the records as a set. Note that this removes them from the Basket
and creates a saved set with them.
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Find E-Resources |
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Find E-Resources – with log-in |
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Bookmark a particular resource
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Bookmark (persistent name) for the resource
(found in the "i" information link for the resource)
Example:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:momodlaw
(Right click or CTRL click on this bookmark; then click on "Add
to Favorites" or "Bookmark this link" or other similar
option)
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Link to Quick Search |
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Link to Quick Search – with log-in |
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Link to Cross Search |
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Link to Cross Search – with log-in |
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| Link to "My Citations" – with log-in |
http://e-research.lib.harvard.edu/?func=eshelf-2&force_login=y |
Link to "My E-Resources" – with log-in |
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