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DiscoverUR (Sibley Music Library): Search & Navigation Bar

Search tips for using UR's discovery interface, DiscoverUR

Navigation

Results Explained

A - Main search box:

  • Add your keywords here. You can combine the different terms using Boolean Operators. Learn more below. 

B - Additional search options - use the drop down box to search the following:

  • All UR Libraries - Articles, Books, and More - Searches all UR physical collections across the three UR campuses plus digital collections
  • E-Resources - Searches digital collections (materials available online such as ebooks, streaming audio/visual materials, online articles, etc.
  • Course Reserves - Searches for course reserves materials available at Sibley Library.

C- Advanced search

  • The Advanced Search interface allows you to design searches that retrieve more focused results than basic keyword searches. Use the Advanced Search interface to select search fields and incorporate the Boolean Operators AND, OR and NOT between search terms in you queries. 

Results Explained

D- My Account and Menu 

  • Log into and access your library account
  • Menu
    • Library Card
    • RefWorks
    • My Favorites 
    • Search History 

E-  Number of Results, page number, and selected articles

  • View the number of results from your search. 
  • If you have selected any articles those will show here as well. 
  • Use the drop down to select the number of results to display per page (default is 10 per page).

F- Additional search options

  • New Search
  • Database Search
  • Search by Citation
  • Journal Title Search
  • Collection Highlights
  • DiscoverUR Classic

Boolean Operators & Building the Search

  • Search phrases using quotation marks
    • example:  "rhapsody in blue"
  • Combine words with AND, OR, and NOT in capital letters (boolean operators)
    • example:  trumpet OR cornet
    • Complex searches may combine elements--in which case, use parentheses around OR terms
    • example:  sonatas AND (trumpet OR cornet) NOT organ
  • Substitute * for several possible letters
    • example:   sonat*  will find sonata, sonatas, sonaten, etc.
  • Substitute ? for one letter within a word
    • example:  Ols?n to find Olsen or Olson, but it will not find Olsson because there are two characters between the "s" and the "n" in that name.
  • Use '*' (single quotes enclosing an asterisk) to perform a blank search (e.g. search for '*' and select scores to see all scores (from the yellow filter bar) for which Sibley Library has access.