What about a non-full-text limiter?

[Brian Mathews]

I wish that database vendors included a non-full-text limiter. Sure, it is strategic to have the ability to filter your results for full-text only, but what if you wanted a list of items that are not available online?

 

A practical example: A patron is in a rush to find articles for a paper due in two weeks. After looking through a multitude of full-text titles, they realize that the paper is going to require a visit to the actual library.

 

Here is where the non-full-text limiter would come into play. The patron could quickly search and remove all the full-text articles (already viewed/saved/printed) from the search and deal exclusively with journals needing to be hunted down in print.

 

Of course, taking this further, it would be nice to be able to measure the search results against the catalog (a la WorldCat) to indicate local holdings. So in our scenario here, the patron could run a search and collect all the full-text articles, then limit the search to journals held in the local library. And then, time permitting, could generate a list of non-full text, non-locally held articles for ILL.

 

Something like that…

 

Brian



Brian Mathews
Reference & Instruction Librarian / Interim Web Coordinator
The George Washington University
Virginia Campus & Gelman Library 

more info: www.brianmathews.com
		
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