FindUT Tips & Tricks

• Use the filters in the left menu: e.g. Year, Topic, Language, Format to narrow your search.  
• Extend your search to 'Libraries in the Netherlands' or 'Libraries Worldwide' to look beyond the UT collection. You can request items from another library via the ILL form. 
• Click on a title to find details like availability and how to reserve a book or access a journal or e-book. 
• Use the share button for sharing interesting search results.
   
• In 'My Account' users can see reservations, current loans and (if enabled) previously borrowed books 
• Use the ‘report a broken link’ button to notify the library backoffice about access errors.  

Check out this video on how to search and request items via FindUT:

While searching in FindUT, you can improve your search results: 

• Use Boolean operators: AND, OR and NOT. 
  Always spell Boolean terms in capitals to distinguish from search terms. To determine the order in which the Boolean operators are used, use parentheses.
  Example: (program OR application) AND (measure OR calculate)
• Use Quotation marks to find an exact phrase. Example: “air quality”
• Use Truncation (*) or Wildcards (? or #).
  Example: process* to find process, processes, processed, etc. Example: wom#n or wom?n finds both women and woman
• Select a specific index by using a prefix.
  Example: ti: air quality searches for titles with the words air and quality. Example: au:smith ti:blend* searches for authors Smith and titles with Blend.
  With prefix ti= you find titles beginning with the search word. Example: ti=nature 

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