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Personalising information searching: beyond Google Presenter: Emma Hurcombe Traditional ways of finding information Browse the Library shelves Look through a printed catalogue of resources Use printed abstract and index services to find relevant articles Ask Library staff Introducing technology to your searching Use the online library catalogue Allows for searching, locating, reserving and renewing all in one place Use of online databases to search for relevant articles Allows for searching and locating full text articles quickly and easily “But which database do I use?” The University subscribes to a large number of electronic services. This benefits the user but: Sometimes difficult to decide which one to use May need to search multiple services one after the other – time consuming “Can’t I just Google?” In theory yes, the problems are: The amount of results returned by the search Quality of the information returned Lack of personalisation Personalising your search ISA and the Library have worked together to implement new services to personalise your searching: A new Library System Aston e-Library Benefits of the new Library System Ability to limit your search to a specific collection Ability to sort results by date, title or relevance Ability to limit results to available stock only Can keep a list of your reading history Management of your own Library record Benefits of Aston e-Library Ability to search across all databases at once Ability to search for individual journals or articles Ability to tailor your search to look for resources on your subject Ability to save searches and resources, to be retrieved and reused as and when required Making use of Google Google scholar – specifically for scholarly literature Search returns more targeted results Integrated with Aston e-Library’s Find it @ Aston facility to further personalise searching Personalised searching in action http://library.aston.ac.uk Future possibilities for the Library System: Ability to order Inter Library Loans online Payment of fines online and integration with the finance system Ability to log on to your library record using your LDAP login instead of barcode and pin