HOW TO USE THE CATALOGUE
Simple Search
Type your term in the search field
Select library
Select document type
Click "Zoeken"
Advanced Search with Webspirs (recommended)
Click "Geavanceerd zoeken via Webspirs" (see screenshot)
Use the tab "Geavanceerd" to combine terms and specific fields
Enter a term. Try to be specific.
Click "Zoek" to start searching in the database
Combining searches: You can use special words called operators (and, or, not,) to
combine search terms and to refine.
To limit your search to the catalogue of the library of RBINS, use the term RBINS in
the AVAILABILITY (AV) field in combination with your search terms (see webspirs1)
Use truncation symbols and wildcards to find variations of a search term.
The truncation symbol (*) represents one or more characters at the end of a word. Ex.
hyperic* will evoke a search for hypericum, hypericin, etc.
Search results (see webspirs 2): WinSPIRS reports the number of times your search
request occurs in the database and the number of records in which it occurs. Select
the wanted records.
To review your first search results, click on the left top "Toon alle resultaten" and select
the records of choice. Clicking on the diskette icon will save your search actions.
Click "Toon details" to have a new screen with full bibliographic data and info about the
holding.
Click "Document bestellen: vraag aan" to request a document. There will occur a new
screen (see webspirs3) with a questionnaire. You will receive an automatically
generated e-mail to confirm your request. The library will send you an e-mail to notify
that the document is be available. This request option is only for external users. Staff
and collaborators of RBINS are requested to submit their request through the library. In
not doing so, costs related to this electronic request will be charged to you.
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