1. Before using Onesearch: proxy and authentication

1.1. Searching for a source whose bibliographic references are known

Searching for a book

Let's start now to see how the search works. We are looking for a book of which we know title and author.

Let's start from Onesearch.

We choose the "Books, magazines ..." mode, to limit the search to the library catalog of the University of Florence.

Let's take an example: a textbook for the exams that is available on the open shelf and you can borrow: 

  • Let's look for "Mathematical models in agriculture: quantitative methods for the plant, animal and ecological science" by f J. H. M. Thornley and J. France
  • In this case, you just have to type in the search mask keywords of the title and author's surname 
  • Type this string: models agriculture Thornley 
  • You will obtain only one result, so click on "available in..." 
  • On a new screen you will find the location of the book, that is its position on the library shelves (in this case Sala 630.15118 THORJH) and information about its availability.
  • Thanks to the alphanumeric code of the location, you can go directly to the shelf and take the book and then ask the staff for its loan. 

Next to this book, you will find all the texts that deal with the same topic, so you may decide to borrow additional texts, which you had not initially taken into account.