Heritage Online Test Script
This quick guide should give you a good overview as to the type of services Heritage Online can offer. The instructions have been divided into sections for ease of reading, but for a full introduction to Heritage Online it is best if you work through the whole list in sequence.
Basic Searching
- Try a search on the term environment.
- Click on the title Chemicals in the environment (note that the search term environment in the title is highlighted in red).
- Double click on the word Chemical in the 'Published by' field to highlight it, then right-mouse click on the term to perform a search.
Selecting & Printing/Emailing records
- Search for Pollution. Select a few of the records using the checkboxes to the left of the screen.
- Click on the ‘Add’ icon above the results display.
- Click on ‘See Also’ to see other terms linked to pollution in the thesaurus.
- Choose Pollution control to perform a further search.
- Select a few of the records using the checkboxes to the left of the screen.
- Click on ‘Add’ again .
- Now, at the left of the screen, click on ‘Basket’.
- You have the choice now, looking at the icons just above the list of hits, of requesting these items from the library, printing them out, emailing them or downloading them. Why not try one of these, and when given the options try choosing the Output Style Summary display ‘Title reference in a Harvard Standard format’?
Advanced Search
- Click on ‘Advanced’ to the left of the screen and try searching for education in any field, but just looking at websites. This will give you a list of websites to try (note: some of the other documents such as brochures and PDFs may work, but some may have been moved, so it is best to go for live links to websites where specified).
Boolean Searching
- Click on 'Search' again and search for environment and uk and politics. Because there are no hits it will give you hits on each individual term and related terms from the thesaurus.
- Select something to search on.
Reader Information
- From the list of options on the left, choose 'Reader Info'.
- Enter a reader code of Myers with a PIN of 13.
- You will then be able to see the current loans, reservations, reader history, charges, interest areas and serials for Graham Myers.
Circulation
- Click on ‘Logout’ on the left of the screen, then ‘Login’ and enter a reader code of R0001 and a PIN of 1. Click on the ‘Circulation’ icon at the top of the page.
- Click on ‘Issue’ and enter a reader code of Myers.
- Issue item T693.
- Click on ‘Return’.
- Return item T693.
NB. You can try issuing, returning and renewing different items (T and a random 3 or 4 digit number will normally work as an accession number e.g. T378, T3439 etc).
Reservations
- Click on 'Search' again and enter any term.
- When looking through the full details of the results, try placing a reservation by clicking on the ‘Reserve’ button just above the item details at the foot of the screen.
Email the Library
- Click on ‘Email Library’ from the options on the left of the screen. There is a list of suggested subjects in the drop-down list, but each library can choose their own.
- Click back to ‘Search’ again. You might try clicking on ‘Help’ at any time – it is context-specific.
Phrase Searching
- Search for war and peace.
- Click on 'Search' again and this time try “war and peace” (with double quotes). This will search for the phrase rather than a boolean search.
- Search for war and peace and not nuclear (no quotes again this time) – this will get you six hits instead of eight.
Wildcard and Date-range Searching
- Try searching for psych*. This will return results for psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric etc.
- Click Back and amend the search to psych* and 2000...2007 - this will only get you works published between 2000 and 2007 (it is possible to search on other types of dates, e.g. in the title field, using the Advanced search facility, but the facility from the General search assumes you mean publication dates).
- Finally, search for *ology. Not that you ever would, but just to prove it works!