Quicksearch [1] unites several search services under one discovery interface.
The services initially targeted for this discovery interface include:
Please send all your questions, comments, and other feedback [7] [8]on any aspect of the Quicksearch.
Use Quicksearch to search across Orbis and Morris (Books+), Articles+, and Digital Collections. You will probably get a very large set of results, only the first 20 of which will be displayed (10 from Books+ and 10 from Articles+ and Digital Collections). If a group of results looks interesting, click on "View and limit all XXX results" link, and you will see details of the set.
To browse only the results from Orbis and Morris, for example, with no Articles+ or Digital Collections results, click on the indicator to "View and limit all XXX results." Once you have selected a set, facets and other functionality will be available for you to further refine your search.
You can do the same thing to explore only relevant results in Articles+ or Digital Collections.
Tip 1. Quicksearch routinely provides "stemming" for common endings to words, that is, common present and past tenses for verbs are added or removed so that a search on the word 'work', for example, will retrieve records that contain the words 'work', 'works', 'working', and 'worked' but not 'worker' or 'workers' (although a search of 'worker' retrieves records with the words 'worker' and 'workers'). Stemming is not performed for proper nouns.
Tip 2. The results of your search may or may not contain all of the search terms that you used if you use more than 1 or 2 words (or quoted phrases).
You can control these results by using the following special search syntax:
After this selection you will see only the results from Books+. Facets and other functionality will now be available.
You can do the same thing for Articles+.
Advanced Search
You will find the Advanced Search link to the right of the search box when you are in Books+ [9]. Sample screen illustrates the location of the Advanced Search link.
This powerful search engine brings a new level of sophistication to searching Books+, and has features that are not available in Orbis or Morris.
In Advanced Search, you can
You may also limit on the opening search screen by
After searching, click on Modify Search to edit your search.
Searching for Multiple Terms
When a search uses three or more clauses, therefore, some of the results will contain most but not all of the clauses entered.
Boolean Searching
So the assumption is that a search for:
"Title:data or Title:numeric and Title: Python" means
(Title: data or Title: numeric) and Title: Python
"All Fields: modern AND Title: poesia AND Subject: portugal OR All Fields: brazil" means
(Allfields: modern OR All fields: brazil) AND Title: poesia and Subject: Portugal
It is easy to see a list of every item in the Yale Library collection.
In Books+ [10] simply click on the search button, with no search terms. There are millions of items, so you'll probably want to limit to some smaller set. Use the facets on the left to select sets of books you are interested in. For example,
In Books+ and Articles+ you can create and save lists of records for use later.
Tip: Login first before trying to save records.
To create and save lists of records you will
Tip: You can create lists of books and articles by creating a list and putting material from Books+ and Articles+ in it.
The bookbag and other lists are available under Saved Lists in the top level menu in the blue bar at the top of the screen. You must login first to access saved lists.
Once you've gone to the Saved Lists, you'll see your Bookbag and other lists you may have created.
To make a new list from Bookbag items. Select items again using the check boxes.
Save them to a new list by using the Copy Selected Items pulldown menu.
Give the list a new name and click on Submit.
Quicksearch provides facets as a way to get to specific material. Understanding facets and how they work will help you get the most functionality out of Quicksearch. Facets are categories of results and are listed under Refine on the left side of results. Individual facet values are the metadata in records.
Hint: When you expand a facet (click on the +) only the top 5 most common results will display. To see all facet values select See more at the bottom of the list.
You may choose one or multiple facets by clicking on a value. When you select multiple values within a category, the search is very restrictive (an AND). After selecting more than one facet value within format, for example, you will see that those values are listed at the top of the search with the term All Of displayed before them. The image below shows a search for Human Rights limited to both of the facet values Books and Online.
That search shows 7802 results. You can make the set bigger with all the books plus all the online material by changing All Of to Any Of, which produces 37,707 results.
Yale University Library has over 10,000 data sets ranging from statistical data to linguistics corpora, to GIS data, to image data sets. You can easily find data sets by selecting “Data sets [11]” from the format facet:
In addition to "Data sets" selected from the format facet, to find a specific kind of data set, you can add an additional Form/Genre from the Subject (Genre) facet such as:
Although most of our data sets are freely available to the Yale University community, some data sets are restricted by license or usage agreements, which requires consulting with library staff. In such a case, you see this link text in a bibliographic record.
Clicking on it will automatically open a new email for you and prefill the email address to our data librarians and subject.
The Find Databases list, a list of database titles, is now part of Quicksearch, with the heading Databases: http://search.library.yale.edu/databases [16]
The catalog records that make up this list are a subset of Books+, so all of the resources that appear here are also discoverable through more general searches in Books+.
From the Database List, you can search multiple ways:
The hundreds of databases the library subscribes to include collections of e-journals and e-books, primary sources, image, sound and video collections, and abstract and indexing services.
Robust cataloging makes it possible to search on both current and former titles. Within a list of search results, you may limit to a language, subject, or LC Classification letter.
Not finding what you need within the Database list? You can easily toggle over to Books+ and run a search across the full catalog.
Quicksearch allows you to search for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) materials by the original scripts and romanized forms. The Yale University Library follows the ALA-LC Romanization Tables [17] to romanize CJK scripts. For more information about searching by romanized form, go to https://guides.library.yale.edu/cjk-romanization/ [18]
Searching in CJK scripts is as easy as searching in other scripts. You can also search in a combination of CJK scripts and English. Follow the Quicksearch Search Tips [19] and search away.
To maximize the discovery of Japanese materials, Hiragana characters and Katakana characters are normalized and inter-searchable in Book+. The same number of results will return no matter which character is used.
Search for “Japan” in Hiragana: 250 results
Search for “Japan” in Katakana: 250 results
To maximize the discovery of CJK materials, Han character variants (simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and Korean Hanja) are normalized and inter-searchable in Book+.
Search for “Mao Zedong” in simplified Chinese: 2106 results
Search for “Mao Zedong” in traditional Chinese: 2106 results
Search for “Mao Zedong” in Japanese kanji: 2106 results
When the search returns a mix of Japanese, Chinese and Korean language records, you can narrow down to specific language materials using the language facet.
Currently users must go to Orbis or Morris to order library materials. When you find a record you are interested in, select Services/Request in Orbis (or Morris) to find the Orbis (Morris) record and order the material. The image below shows an example record with the Services drop down selected.
Quicksearch was built in collaboration with other university libraries, particularly Columbia University, using the open source system Blacklight. It is based on a SOLR index and uses the Ruby on Rails framework . If you are interested in the technical details the project pages [20] on Github have a good overview.
FAQ for Quicksearch [21] can be found in our Ask Yale help pages.
Using lists to save what you find
[coming soon]
Links
[1] http://search.library.yale.edu/
[2] http://orbis.library.yale.edu/vwebv/
[3] http://morris.law.yale.edu/
[4] http://yale.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/
[5] https://search.library.yale.edu/digital_collections
[6] https://search.library.yale.edu/archives
[7] http://yalesurvey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ePRYbhHrT3D2eEd
[8] https://yalesurvey.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ePRYbhHrT3D2eEd
[9] http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog
[10] http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog#
[11] https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog?_=1584367252483&f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=Data+Sets&q=&rows=25&search_field=all_fields
[12] https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog?f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=Data+Sets&f%5Bsubject_form_facet%5D%5B%5D=Statistics&q=&search_field=all_fields
[13] https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog?f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=Data+Sets&f%5Bsubject_form_facet%5D%5B%5D=Text+corpora&q=&rows=25&search_field=all_fields
[14] https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog?_=1584367203639&f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=Data+Sets&f%5Bsubject_form_facet%5D%5B%5D=Images&q=&rows=25&search_field=all_fields
[15] https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog?_=1584367252483&f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=Data+Sets&f%5Bsubject_form_facet%5D%5B%5D=Geospatial+data&q=&rows=25&search_field=all_fields
[16] http://search.library.yale.edu/databases
[17] http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
[18] https://guides.library.yale.edu/cjk-romanization/
[19] https://web.library.yale.edu/quicksearch
[20] https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/Understanding-Rails-and-Blacklight
[21] http://ask.library.yale.edu/search/?t=0&adv=1&topics=Quicksearch