Finding a book or a journal

Books

Use Asiana , our online catalogue for literature searches in the library collection.

By clicking "About Asiana" you will find information not only about the monographs and periodicals held by our library but also about NIAS LINC's bibliographies, Ask the librarian, and other relevant information about the resources that we provide for our users.

You of course also have the possibility of just searching our database by choosing either one of the five following search options or the"Browse index" function.

"Basic search" gives you the possibility to search by writing one or more words on the same line. A fast but a bit primitive way of searching.

"Advanced search" enables you to combine normal keywords, geographical keywords, words from the title, authors' names, etc. by combining four different search lines.

We advise you to use"Command search" instead, since it's more accurate.

"Command search" enables you to combine normal keywords, geographical keywords, words from the title, authors' names, etc. with the Boolean operators (and, or, not).

For instance the following search"china and agricultur? and WAR=200?" will give you a list all the monographs containing the words China and (agriculture and/or agricultural) as either keyword or title word published from 2000 onward.

The books will be displayed with the newest books first.

You always have the possibility to optimize your search by clicking the button"Refine".

"Multibase search" gives you the possibility to search several databases at one time.

However, you cannot combine search words, which makes this search imprecise.

The"Browse index" ought to be used when searching for a specific author, specific title, etc.

Especially rather insignificant titles (journal and even book titles often are) can be found much more easily this way than by a normal search.

Having found relevant records you also have the option of making a bibliography by ticking the relevant records and send them to basket by clicking (Save to basket).

Choose"Basket" and then e-mail the records to yourself.

If you're interested in borrowing books you must click each title and then"Holdings". If available just go to the NIAS library where you can pick it/them up from the open shelves in the reading room and then take them to the librarians' desk.

If lent out you can make a reservation by clicking "Request item" and then logging yourself in.

If you don't have a library card, you have to go to the NIAS Library and fill out a form. Then a library card will be issued to you right away.

If you wish to search the NIAS bibliographies you must choose "NIAS bibliographies".

When a record in these databases has got the word NIAS at the top is means that the title is being held by our library.

Searching and ordering:

Subject classifications in Asiana are only made in English, so please use English when searching Asiana!

Reservations can only be made on material that is lent out, not if the material is available on the shelf.

For assistance on how to search the catalogue please use the help function on the top of each page.

Journals

ELIN@nias - Journals- gives access to NIAS LINC's journals collection.

This website gives access to all journals and newsletters in the NIAS LINC collection. Many titles are available as full text issues online, for the other titles you have access to table of contents.

•  search or browse for journal or newsletter titles via the alphabetical list

•  search articles or journal titles by choosing Articles in the left side menu

• create alerts to table of contents of journal
• save your searches
• create collections of journals, articles, ebooks and other resources from ELIN@nias